By the end of this year, the G7 aim to launch an “open, cooperative international Climate Club” to foster coordinated action to achieve the Paris climate agreement’s maximum-warming target of 1.5°C without leaving anyone at a competitive disadvantage. Although we have been hearing calls for international climate action for decades, there is good reason to think that this time will be different.
The Climate Club is the brainchild of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose proposal is based on four premises. First, international climate action needs to be broad-based and consistent, with all club members aiming for the same objectives. Second,
Although freelancers have been around for ages the English word originally referred to a “free lance,” or a medieval mercenary willing to fight for the highest bidder working independently is often considered unstable. It certainly can be, but it also forces one to learn how to navigate uncertainty, recover from setbacks quickly and diversify income all of which are useful in times of economic turmoil.
As mass layoffs start to make headlines and recession chatter grows louder, traditionally employed folks can learn a lot from freelancers to defend their finances amid anxiety about a downturn.
It is hard to
The world has an obsession with Japan’s shrinking population. Each year, news that the country is a little bit smaller can reliably be called upon for column inches, which tend to examine it as a Japanese mystery one of those inherently Oriental concepts that foreigners could not possibly penetrate, such as wabi-sabi or the bushido code of samurai warriors.
The New York Times asked in a 2012 headline: “Without babies, can Japan survive?” The Atlantic wrote about “the mystery of why Japanese people are having so few babies.” To be fair, Japan talks about the population crisis as much as
Louie Johnston was seven years old when his father, a police officer in Northern Ireland, was shot dead while on patrol in the town of Lurgan. A quarter of a century later, Johnston said his hopes that the killer would one day stand trial could be about to fade further.
The British government is planning legislation designed to help Northern Ireland draw a line under the so-called Troubles that blighted the region for three decades.
Under the plan, which is being debated in the British Parliament for the first time on Tuesday, authorities seek to address more than 1,000 unsolved murders