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ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC
Virtual attendance and participation enabled for the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”)
Shareholders encouraged to vote in advance of the AGM, but voting is also enabled during the meeting
Board requests support for energy sector’s first shareholder advisory vote on an energy transition strategy
Today, Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”) posted notice of its AGM (the “Notice”), which can be viewed and downloaded from
www.shell.com/agm. The Notice states that the AGM is scheduled to be held at Shell headquarters, at Carel van Bylandtlaan 16, 2596 HR, The Hague, The Netherlands at 10:00 (Dutch time) on Tuesday May 18, 2021.
The Population Institute Appoints Kathleen Mogelgaard as the New President and CEO
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WASHINGTON, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Population Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Kathleen Mogelgaard as President and CEO, effective May 3, 2021. She succeeds Robert Walker, who is retiring.
For the past three years Kathleen has been a Senior Fellow at the Population Institute and Principal of KAM Consulting, LLC, where she worked to promote deeper understanding of issues that are critical for sustainable development, including population dynamics, reproductive rights, gender, climate change, and food security. She brings to the Institute a passion for advancing solutions to global challenges that incorporate multiple benefits for human and planetary well-being.
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United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) established in December 2003, is part of the UNU system, a worldwide network of Research and Training Institutes. Its mission is to advance human security through knowledge-based approaches to reducing vulnerability and environmental risks. For more information, please visit
Gassy Garbage: How Beijing Can Turn Its Trash Into Energy Apr 14, 2021 2:30 pm | Add a comment | 23 reads
How bad is the smog these days, really? Who is keeping tabs on the state of our drinking water? What has the government done about carbon emissions lately? In
Beicology we turn our focus toward environmental news in the capital.
As trash piles up in Beijing’s suburbs, heaping landfills have earned a place at the forefront of the discussion about ecology in the capital (or as we like to call it, Beicology). Aside from being an eyesore, landfills produce methane – a powerful greenhouse gas –
The basics
As things stand, COP26 will be hosted by the U.K. and held in the Scottish city of Glasgow between Nov. 1 and 12, 2021. It was originally due to take place in Nov. 2020, but was rescheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
COP stands for Conference of the Parties in other words, countries while the number 26 refers to the fact it will be the 26th summit. The European Union is considered a party to the Paris Agreement in its own right, as are its 27 member states.
The U.K. government says talks at COP26, will bring together heads of state, climate experts and campaigners to agree coordinated action to tackle climate change.