Published: Monday, May 17, 2021
Coal miner in China. Photo credit: China Photos/Getty Images
A coal worker in China. Global financiers are turning away from coal projects, but not natural gas power plants. That could challenge global climate goals. China Photos/Getty Images
Major energy financiers are backing away from future coal projects as pressure grows to meet global climate targets. But investments in natural gas continue to rise, stirring debate about whether the world is shifting away from fossil fuels fast enough to prevent dangerous warming.
Abandoning coal is becoming common as nations like South Korea, a major coal funder, commit to halting investments in overseas projects. The United States released an international climate finance plan at a White House summit last month saying it would stop funding carbon-intensive projects in other countries and increase investments in climate-friendly activities.
Thousands of Brits got up super-early this morning and
by 06:00 the five biggest Airports in England were heaving, as excited tourists queued up to check in for their first holidays abroad in more than a year.
Hundreds of planes were on the tarmac at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and Manchester Airports and 124 of them were getting ready to take off to ‘Amber’ listed countries,
including 23 flights to Spain, according to the Daily Mail.
Portugal and Gibraltar are the only European destinations on the quarantine-free ‘Green’ list, but that didn’t stop
hundreds of Brits booking holidays in Spain, even although they’ll have to quarantine for 10 days at home when they return to the UK.
French and African leaders and international organizations were holding a conference Monday in Paris to negotiate debt relief and raise global support for Sudan’s transitional leadership.
By Reuters Staff
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(Reuters) -Transportation solutions provider Giga Energy Inc is going public through a merger with blank-check company Yunhong International in a deal valued at up to $7.35 billion, the companies said on Monday.
Giga Energy said it had also secured nearly $308 million from private investor Harvest Tech Investment Management (UK) Co Ltd.
Formerly known as Ares Motor Works, Giga Energy aims to accelerate transition of commercial and industrial vehicles to zero emissions and plans to be headquartered in Hangzhou, China.
The multi-billion-dollar deal is another mega-merger that marks a rebound in activity in the blank-check space, after a lull due to increased regulatory scrutiny and saturated investor appetite.
International students returning to the University of Otago
17 May, 2021 08:30 PM
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Otago University international director Jason Cushen. Photo / Supplied
Otago Daily Times
By: Hamish MacLean
About 30 returning international students have arrived at the University of Otago this year and another 50 are on their way.
The university remained optimistic of further approvals, university international director Jason Cushen said.
About 250 Otago international students met the Government s criteria to return, he said yesterday.
However, the University of Otago was only allotted 160 of the 1250 spaces made available nationally in the first two groups of returnee students.
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Eligible students were contacted by the university to make sure they knew they met the criteria to return, but also to make sure they knew there was assistance the university could offer if they were in a position to come back, Cushen said.