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Fujitsu sets 1.5C science-based climate targets Japanese multinational IT firm Fujitsu has unveiled new climate targets, verified in line with the Paris Agreements more ambitious 1.5C trajectory. The company met its 2020 climate targets, which were 2C-aligned  At a company meeting in Tokyo late last week, executives confirmed that the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) has verified a new target to reduce operational emissions by 71.4% by 2030, against a 2030 baseline. Fujitsu believes thi...

The program includes a 15-point climate charter. IMPALA is launching a program to help make the European independent music industry more sustainable, the trade body announced today. The sustainability program is based on a package compiled by a task force initiated and chaired by  Horst Weidenmüller, CEO at Europe-based label group !K7. The package includes a 15-point climate charter that sets a goal of a climate positive membership by 2030, with an interim net zero target for 2026. Though th...

With Joe Biden’s own audacious New Deal, the democratic left rediscovers its soul Will Hutton © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP ‘It’s bold, yes, and we can get it done.” So declared President Joe Biden launching his $2tn plan last week to overhaul US infrastructure – ranging from fixing 20,000 miles of roads to remaking bridges, ports, water systems and “the care economy”, care now defined as part of the country’s infrastructure. Also includ...

The EU has not had a good few weeks, but celebrating Britain’s ‘freedom’ is premature

After four years of division, the president has dynamically sown the seeds for rebirth

Last Wednesday in Washington was magnificent – the alchemy of a great republic’s democratic rituals, inspiring sentiments that did not fall into schmaltz, and the best of pop culture. Then there was the small matter of getting rid of the perpetrator of the Big Lie and welcoming a president who promised a new dawn, personified in Joe Biden’s dignity and decency. “ Democracy has prevailed,” he declared. “There is truth and there are lies told for...

Paul Mason writes that a Biden US presidency allied to an EU pursuing ‘strategic autonomy’ leaves a ‘sovereign’ UK with a bit-part role.

AS the news broke of Richard Leonard’s resignation on Thursday afternoon BBC Radio Scotland valiantly tried to respond. In a moment that would…

Could there be anything more wearyingly predictable than another Lefty in charge of an Oxbridge college? Our leading universities have become a sort of Blairite donkey sanctuary for members of the soft-Left who have been put out to grass 12 January 2021 • 6:42pm Oxford has just released its offers to next year’s students with Cambridge due to follow shortly. For even the brightest boffins, boasting CVs stuffed with teacher-approved A stars, waiting for news is stressful. Every year, the v...

The age of national self-interest must end if we are to vanquish the pandemic Will Hutton © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images Last week, the “age of I” finally peaked. The 45-year rise of libertarianism reached its high tide. The doctrine that gave us Brexit, Trump and a wholly inadequate response to a global pandemic has been exposed for what it always was. A viable civilisation cannot be founded on the primacy of our own islands of self-inter...