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In our government/NGO section this week, Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab report Discourses of Climate Delay in the Campaign Against Offshore Wind: A Case Study from Rhode Island applies earlier work by Lamb (Discourses of Climate Delay) and Cook (FLICC taxonomy) to put the bright lights on a organization attempting to fossilize energy supplies, finding archetypal examples of both systems littering that organizations rhetoric :

The 2023 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC concluded with disappointment among African leaders that the institutions have no interest in reforming their lending model to help countries in dire straits. 

MIT associate professors Ellen Roche of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and Justin Solomon of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) have been named the 2023 winners of MIT’s annual Harold E. Edgerton Fa

Ellen Roche and Justin Solomon have been named the 2023 winners of MIT's Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award for their teaching, research, and service at MIT.

ABB's Wisconsin greenfield facility for drives and services demonstrates a continued commitment to US customers and workforce.

The first images of Earth, though low-resolution and ghostly, arrived at a time when space and defense technology was rapidly advancing. Here are the first images ever taken of our humble planet.

Arab countries struggling with high debt and weak economies are particularly vulnerable to the political and economic shocks that can cause destabilization or even government collapse, economic experts from the Middle East and North Africa region warned on Friday. They said politicians in such countries often wield too much power over the economy, which prevents

ABB is accelerating its growth strategy in the U.S. by investing approximately $170 million and creating highly skilled jobs in manufacturing, innovation, and distribution operations.

Currently, ABB is committed to expanding its operations in the US by investing in its electrification and automation businesses

Several countries in the MENA region have been facing financial crises of unprecedented gravity. The MENA Commission on Stabilization and Growth Report describes how debt ratios started rising after the Arab Uprisings as fiscal policies became more expansionary, and how this was further precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war, and the rise in global interest rates. The financial crises are especially acute in Lebanon, Egypt, and Tunisia, where external shocks have exacerbated deep...