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VacciNations! The world is betting on and hoping for a V-accine shaped recovery, to resume lives and restore livelihoods. March 16 will mark two months since the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccinations in India. How is India doing? The answer, as with all data, depends on how the numbers are interrogated.
On the face of it India ranks third with 28.2 million or 282 lakh total doses administered. The United States which began its rollout a month earlier has crossed the 100 million-mark and President Joe Biden is promising a July 4 normalcy. China, second on the ranking table ahead of the EU as a bloc, has administered 52.2 million doses. In terms of doses per 100 persons or percentage of population vaccinated though India trails many countries and has a lot of ground to cover.
Commentary: Biden climate regulation is about to get tougher
By preparing to raise a key metric called the ‘social cost of carbon,’ the president signals that more stringent emissions rules are just around the corner.
By Cass R. SunsteinBloomberg Opinion
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It’s the most important number you’ve never heard of, and President Biden is about to change it as he resets U.S. environmental policy.
The social cost of carbon is a monetary figure meant to capture the damage done by a ton of carbon emissions to health, property and agricultural productivity, among other things.
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