Let’s empower women, not pimps | Stephanie Falzon
Women’s organisations are united in their opposition to the proposed decriminalisation of prostitution. STEPHANIE FALZON, chair of Empower – a platform for women’s NGOs – argues that legislation should exist to protect the vulnerable, instead of rewarding criminality
2 March 2021, 8:37am
by Raphael Vassallo
Empower has just released a statement, complaining that the proposed decriminalising of prostitution “will have adverse effects to the already vulnerable women that are caught in this industry”. Yet on paper, the same reform aims to do the opposite: i.e., to protect women in prostitution, by giving them agency over their own profession. In what way, exactly, is this reform flawed?
Swedish energy company Vattenfall has unveiled Helene Bistrom as its new senior vice president and head of business area wind, effective no later than 1 September this year.
She will replace Gunnar Groebler who is leaving Vattenfall to become chief executive of German steel and technology company Saltzgitter.
Bistrom, who will also become a member of the executive group management at Vattenfall, is currently executive vice president commercial at BillerudKorsnas.
She has previously been chief executive of Infranord and Norrenergi and has experience at Vattenfall, having been a member of the executive group management between 2007 and 2010, responsible for wind, nuclear and engineering businesses.
Nordic utilities Vattenfall, Fortum and Statkraft have highlighted what they see as three key elements necessary to meet the EU s revised 2030 climate target of reducing emissions by at least 55%.
They called for strengthening cost efficiency and power markets through technology neutrality, enhancing electrification to accelerate the decarbonisation of the EU economy, and strengthening and enlarging the EU ETS as a key driver for decarbonisation.
The trio said the complementarity of technologies will play a key role in keeping transition costs down and making the energy transition affordable to customers.
They said that technology neutrality should be safeguarded in the Taxonomy Regulation by ensuring that the screening criteria are defined objectively and applied evenly in order to enable a full utilization of existing and new carbon-free power production assets to cost-efficiently deliver on the EU climate neutrality objective.
Looking back on 2020 – Part 2: Losses mount as Covid adds to sector’s woes
The second part of our review of the year looks at how the industry s major players fared as lockdowns caused some delays in installations and quite a few CEOs were waved off
by Craig Richard & Nadia Weekes
The pandemic resulted in (temporary) factory closures and job cuts (pic: Vestas)
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