Everywhere you look on the internet there are many pictures, videos, and witty captions of goats of all breeds and sizes. We have all seen the infamous YouTube video of goat sounds harmoniously blended with Taylor Swift’s hit song, “I Knew You Were Trouble.” Once people discovered the entertainment value, they couldn’t help but join in on the party. Wired UK declared 2013 “The Year of the Goat.” In response to that, Nerve.com recognized what seemed to be a “herd mentality” of people falling head over hooves with goat memes and videos. I, for one, am a true fan of this phenomenon.
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When: Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: Online,
The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) is delighted to welcome Professor Kristian Lasslett (University of Ulster) for the talk Looting the North, Looting the South: Investigating Transnational Corruption. The online event will be chaired by Dr. Thomas MacManus (Queen Mary School of Law).
The world of global elites and wealth management is largely hidden from public inspection. The forces which undermine democracy - lack of transparency, opaque circles of influence, informal decision making, monetisation of politics, polarisation of power - are also a boon to all manner of corrupt transactions that game government and markets to engorge the power and wealth enjoyed by practitioners. Working with civil society and journalists, Professor Kristian Lasslett has been investigating bribery, racketeering, fraud, misappropriation, and market manipulation in Uzbekistan and Papua New Guinea, prosecu
Greta Thunberg: It just spiralled out of control
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By: Leslie Hook
Three years after bursting on to the global stage, what s next for the most famous climate activist of her generation? Greta Thunberg turned 18 a few months ago but occasionally she forgets that. I actually can vote now, she grins. But the words we children still sometimes slip into her sentences, out of habit. She is sanguine about the change, but it is a bigger shift than she lets on: that phrase has been a core part of her message.
Thunberg became the world s most celebrated climate activist on the back of this idea: that children have to wake the world up to the reality of climate change. She was just 15 when she started the school strike for climate , for which she skipped classes and sat outside the Swedish parliament at first alone and later with dozens, then hundreds of others every Friday. As the movement grew, aided by Thunberg s speeches, millions of student
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Subsidising low carbon emission meals could encourage more people to choose them, according to new research.
The study, led by Queen Mary University of London, investigated the impact of different interventions on encouraging people to select low carbon emission menu options in a simulated lunchtime canteen environment. This included the use of carbon taxes and subsidies, traffic light labelling (TLL) and social norms, where more sustainable options were highlighted as the most popular menu items.
Carbon taxes and either behavioral intervention - TLL or social norms - had a limited effect on shifting behaviours towards meal choices with lower carbon footprints. However, when all these interventions were combined with subsidies, where the money collected from carbon taxes for meat meals was added to vegetable only options, the researchers observed a 24 per cent reduction in weekly carbon emissions.