[co-author: Shawn Whites]
President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate has wrapped up. The event saw world leaders highlighting their countries’ respective climate commitments, calling for collective action, and attending breakout sessions designed to foster dialogue around climate finance and technological innovation, among other topics. After Vice President Harris and President Biden opened the summit, Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered further introductory remarks before the trio joined Climate Envoy John Kerry at a horseshoe-shaped table to watch speeches from the world leaders in attendance. Then fifteen additional cabinet heads, political appointees, and special advisors spoke or moderated sessions during over the next two days. These U.S. officials comprise the core leadership team tasked with implementing the administration’s “whole of government” climate strategy. Below, we introduce these key members in the order in which they first appeared during the Summ
TRADING UPDATES: Supreme annual revenue jumps; Pelatro in Asia deal
Tue, 4th May 2021 19:13
(Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of updates by London-listed companies, issued on Tuesday and not separately reported by Alliance News:
Supreme PLC - maker of fast-moving consumer goods - Expects 30% revenue hike in year ended March 31 to GBP121 million from GBP92.3 million, in line with management expectations. Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation tipped to rise 20% to GBP19 million from GBP16.2 million. I am delighted to provide our first trading update since our AIM admission in February 2021. We continue to build on our strong track record of growth, with our strategy to focus on high growth categories such as vaping and sports nutrition really coming to fruition, Chief Executive Officer Sandy Chadha comments.
When I think about climate change, I think about my brother-in-law Tillman.
Tillman spent his career with Big Oil. He travelled the world finding places to drill, baby, drill. Heâs now comfortably retired in Dallas, Texas. And heâs a Republican.
You may suspect heâs a climate-change denier.
Wrong.
Tillman has a PhD in geology from UNC. Heâs smart and studious. Some years back, he delved into a study of climate change.
Like most geologists, he concluded itâs real â so real he tells his eight grandchildren that the familyâs vacation home on North Carolinaâs Outer Banks may be gone when theyâre his age. âAct now,â he writes, âto slow the change and preserve this wonderful place.â
A 2013 legal settlement with environmental groups who sued over the harbor deepening required the Army Corps to prove that the machines worked.
Southern Environmental Law Center attorney Chris DeScherer, who represented the groups in the federal lawsuit, said he had not yet reviewed the Army Corps’ entire report. He said he has concerns about the government’s commitment to operate the machines long-term at an estimated cost of $3 million per year.
“We remain skeptical about a plan to use these mechanical devices in perpetuity without a guaranteed source of funding to effectively solve this problem over such a large segment of the river,” DeScherer said in an emailed statement.