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Larry Fink, Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock, takes part in the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit in New York, U.S., February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
Last week s Dutch court decision against Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) is not the way to solve the global decarbonisation issue and risks shifting the problem to private firms, the head of the world s largest money manager said on Thursday.
BlackRock (BLK.N) CEO Larry Fink said the ruling that requires Shell to deepen its planned greenhouse gas emission cuts was an example of a general attitude that failed to address the overall problem.
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Concern over the impact on protected mice and bat species has halted construction in Denmark of Baltic Pipe, a pipeline connecting Poland with Norwegian gas fields, Danish grid operator Energinet said on Thursday.
The suspension followed the rescinding of an environmental permit by a public appeals committee. The Danish Environmental Protection Agency had given the permit before it was sufficiently clarified if the animals would be protected during the construction, according to Energinet, which is building the pipeline in Denmark.
The environmental agency now needed to conduct further studies to asses whether the pipeline project would destroy or harm breeding grounds for the protected animals, the appeals committee said.
Gong, a platform leveraging artificial intelligence for sales teams, raised $250 million in a funding round that tripled its valuation to $7.25 billion, the company said on Thursday.
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Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov speaks to the media after being released from custody in Moscow, Russia June 3, 2021. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
Police in Moscow released prominent Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov from custody on Thursday, but have kept him as a suspect in a criminal case that prompted his arrest two days ago, his lawyers said.
The 41-year-old former member of parliament was detained on Tuesday amid a crackdown on the Kremlin s political opponents that comes ahead of parliamentary elections in September.
He was suspected of failing to pay a debt on a rented property dating from 2015-17, according to state media. His father, Gennady Gudkov, has said that property was in no way linked to his son.
British online health startup Babylon Health said on Thursday it has agreed to go public in the United States through a merger with a blank-check firm led by former Groupon chief Rich Williams, at a pro-forma equity valuation of $4.2 billion.