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Climate cash: Next step for global bankers is to act on their pledges

At President Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate last week, one constituency was a group somewhat new to the green spotlight: financiers. Banks and investors made some big-dollar pledges: Bill Gates on plans to rapidly commercialize clean technologies. Dozens of banks in a new Net-Zero Banking Alliance. And more. Why We Wrote This President Joe Biden has proposed expansive federal spending on climate action. But a recent summit emphasized something seen as just as vital: mobilizing private sector investment. It’s encouraging, say climate policy experts, because such private funding is necessary for there to be any hope of limiting the world’s temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius – the global warming target set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Should the European Union Fix, Leave or Kill the Energy Charter Treaty?

Should the European Union Fix, Leave or Kill the Energy Charter Treaty? by Martin Dietrich Brauch |February 12, 2021 In the early 1990s, the European Economic Community the predecessor of the European Union (EU) spearheaded an initiative to promote international cooperation in the energy sector, particularly with post-Soviet states in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Out of this process, the Energy Charter Treaty was born in 1994. Going much beyond international cooperation, the treaty allows foreign investors in the energy sector to sue their host states not in domestic courts, but in international arbitral tribunals and claim monetary compensation when policy measures and other state actions affect their interests.

Simpsons jokes becoming reality | The Simpsons predicting the future

Mutated animals show up all the time in episodes of The Simpsons, from the laser-eyed squirrel in “Marge Vs. The Monorail” to Blinky, the three-eyed fish Bart catches in “Two Cars In Every Garage And Three Eyes On Every Fish” in season 2. Of course, these animals’ misfortune is always traced back to Mr. Burns’ nuclear power plant and his repeated disdain for environmental protection laws. When the writers introduced Blinky the three-eyed fish in 1990, it’s safe to say they didn’t actually believe three-eyed fish would be swimming around in our lakes and streams.  However, in 2011, 21 years after the episode’s original air date, a fisherman caught a three-eyed fish near a local power plant in Argentina. More sightings have occurred as well, including a three-eyed catfish caught off the Hamilton Avenue Bridge in Brooklyn and another Blinky look-alike caught in Canada’s Lake Nippissing. While some may say this is just a classic case of

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