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The UK has been warned not to send a dreadful message to the rest of the world by backing a controversial Australian former minister with a much-criticised climate change record to run the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The race to be the next secretary-general of the OECD – the Paris-based economic thinktank that advises governments across the world – has narrowed to Mathias Cormann, the former Australian finance...

Lawmakers have denounced a “loophole” in the European Commission's proposed climate target for 2030 and pointed the finger at the EU executive for its hard negotiation style over the EU climate law.

Perseverance’s picture of its ‘forever home’ sparks memes all the way from Mars © Provided by The Indian Express After almost 300 million miles and seven months, NASA’s science rover Perseverance successfully touched down on the red planet Friday. Though the probe is on a series of quests, including searching for ancient microbial life on the planet, people on the internet looked over to the lighter side, coming up with hilarious memes and jokes on the historic moment. Minutes after landing, Perseverance beamed a message back to Earth, confirming its safe landing. The probe also sen...

European countries are delaying negotiations on the EU’s 2030 climate target, according to Michael Bloss, a Green MEP from Germany who briefed the press after the third round of talks on the European climate law. Bloss is part of a European Parliament delegation seeking to broker a deal on the climate law in talks with the European Commission and representatives of the EU’s 27 member states in the EU Council of Ministers. Both sides now have to agree on an identical text before the 2030 objective can be incorporated into the climate law and become a legally binding obligation on the Europ...

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Despite the row over the supply and delivery of vaccines that has engulfed the European Commission over the past fortnight, the bottom line is that the vaccines exist and they are being rolled out, albeit with different degrees of success, across Europe. There is good reason to hope and believe that this lockdown will be the last and that life will start to return to normal for good in the coming months. But this third infection wave and lockdown have been the hardest for millions of Europeans. Back in March last year, few would have expected the pande...