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Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry attends the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate on Thursday, in the East Room of the White House in Washington D.C. Photo by Al Drago/UPI/Pool | License Photo
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks Thursday at the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, in the East Room of the White House in Washington D.C. Photo by Al Drago/UPI/Pool | License Photo
President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate in the East Room of the White House in Washington D.C., on Thursday. Photo by Al Drago/UPI/Pool | License Photo
Norway s prime minister on her country s love of EVs
Norway s Prime Minister Erna Solberg gestures speaks during the Government s press conference on reopening society after the coronavirus Covid-19 lockdown on May 7, 2020. Photo by Fredrik Hagen/NTB Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg says electric vehicles have become a status symbol in her country, with widespread adoption spurred by government policies.
starring Will Ferrell, Norway is a potential model for implementing policy incentives that other countries might choose to follow to increase the adoption of electric vehicles.
Norway has the highest rate of EV adoption as a percentage of the auto market, with at least 54% of new cars sold being EVs.
G7 nations must act to vaccinate the world against COVID-19
By Gordon Brown, Winnie Byanyima, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Gr
“Nobody is safe until everyone is safe” is the defining mantra of the COVID-19 era. It captures a fundamental truth. Faced with a virus that recognizes no borders, no country is an island and there is no substitute for international solidarity.
The June G7 summit in the UK provides political leaders of the world’s richest countries an opportunity to demonstrate that solidarity. They should seize it by agreeing on a financial plan of action to underpin humanity’s battle with COVID-19, starting with equitable access to vaccines.
COVID-19 and a fine cause for celebration in Norway
What India can learn from Norway’s social, political, and administrative values and practices
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Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has been fined 20,000 kroner ($2,352) for breach of COVID rules. | Image: Wiki
On April 9, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg was fined 20,000 kroner ($2,352) for breach of COVID rules during her 60th birthday celebration on February 26.
It was nothing remotely like the
Shashti Abda Poorti celebrations seen in India.
Solberg was simply unlucky. Not for hosting a dinner for 13 people at three separate tables in a restaurant where she herself was not present. But for being the country’s prime minister. As a lesser mortal, she may have got away.
On Covid, No10 is treating the public like fools
Every cryptic statement and irrational lockdown measure erodes trust in the Government’s position
15 April 2021 • 6:00am
It’s a process we have become wearily used to. Within minutes of Boris Johnson’s eye-popping claim that the plummeting rates of Covid hospitalisations and deaths since January “have not been achieved by the vaccination programme” but instead are overwhelmingly thanks to the lockdown, the internet was awash with confusion and dismay.
First came the scientists, pointing out that the Prime Minister’s odd assertion was hard to back up with evidence. The fact that the overwhelming majority of people in vulnerable groups (collectively representing 99 per cent of deaths) has now had at least one vaccination must surely have something to do with the falling death rate; and those 32 million vaccinated people must also have something to do with the reduction in transmission. Epidemiologist Tim Spector conclud