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De Bono was qualified in medicine and at school nicknamed ‘genius’, but critics claimed he peddled pseudoscience in his books and talks
Exporting Uganda’s oil to Tanzania and beyond looks less viable as high costs and the turn from fossil fuels become reality, 'Deal Done', trumpeted the loyalist press in Dar es Salaam after President Samia Suluhu Hassan and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda signed agreements with the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Company to build the world's longest heated oil pipeline in late May. Concerns about the high cost of transporting the oil through 1,443 kilometres of buried pipe for export from the port of Tanga, environmental worries, and now a shortage of finance, beset the project. ...
Concerns raised over possible 50c-per-litre increase diesel prices by 2030 Study warns of price hikes if EU relies only on carbon markets to achieve emissions cuts Tue, May 25, 2021, 14:27 Updated: Tue, May 25, 2021, 16:13 The price of a litre of diesel could spike by as much as 50 cents by 2030, if EU plans to use international carbon markets to set pricing carry on. That is the conclusion of the Cambridge Trust for New Thinking in Economics. The Trust, which was originally set up by economist and environmental campaigner Terry Barker, has warned that “there is the potential to...
Concerns raised over possible 50c-per-litre increase in the price of diesel by 2030
QUEZON CITY, May 19 -- Four leading Filipino economists recommend that structural reforms are needed to remedy the plight of Philippine agri-fishery sector and reduce poverty among farmers and fishers, during the first day of the 2021 Food Security Summit organized by the Department of Agriculture (DA). For one, reforms must be made on the continued bias against agriculture in government budgetary allocation, over-regulation of markets, and monopolies, said Dr. V. Bruce J. Tolentino, current Monetary Board member of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and former DA undersecretary for policy and...