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The National Insurance Fund, NIF, the source from which public pension payments are made, was now valued at around $175 billion in fiscal 2023. The figure, though subject to audit verification, is a significant improvement over the $143 billion...

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The year 2024 will be marked by several events and observances with important implications for the environment, biodiversity, and global sustainability.

Homelessness charity Rowan alba is one of fifteen charitable organisations benefiting from a festive funding boost from the Barrack Charitable Trust, funded by Knight Property Group.

The EU and Switzerland have made further progress in talks about their relationship, opening the door for Swiss academics to apply for European Research Council (ERC) grants from next year. On 15 December, Switzerland’s ruling Federal Council signed off a draft negotiating mandate with the EU, paving the way for formal negotiations to start next year. That followed on from 18 months of exploratory talks about everything from food safety to financial markets.

The EU is set to invest €50m ($54.9m) next year to help precision fermentation start-ups scale up the production of alternative proteins.

Netflix recently released a new fictional film titled "Leave the World Behind" which dramatizes what could happen with a cyber attack against the U.S. I watched this film yesterday, since online comments about it were all over the place in trying to interpret it. I am recommending everyone to watch this film. Another corroborating source about what is about to happen, is the non-fictional work of David Webb, someone I had not heard of before this week. Webb has published a new book tha...

MC13 Chair briefs members on ministerial preparations; members approve budget increase —

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 10 December 2023 (ECA) – Climate change negotiators in Africa have called on COP28 to deliver a fair and balanced Global Stocktake that catalyses greater ambition across all elements of climate action in Africa, centred on equity for a Just Transition.“The just transition and resilient low‐carbon development, if not properly designed, risks

Employer organisations and trade unions at the United Nations climate negotiations are speaking with one voice today to address COP28 Parties. (...)