At the 14th BRICS summit, the international grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced the association’s intention to develop a new international reserve currency most likely intended to target the U.S. dollar’s dominance as a world currency.
Dr. Joe Zammit-Lucia writing in CEOWorld discusses the recent article in the Economist dissecting the future of Environmental, Society and Governance (ESG) and goes further, suggesting the failures of ESG are not simply the in the results but the framework itself.
Russian oil supplier Transneft, who supplies oil through the southern Druzhba pipeline servicing Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic has stopped delivery citing issues with EU financial sanctions.
The leadership of Afghanistan’s Islamic Emirate has reiterated that the regime remains committed to sharia law and, therefore, will continue to reject any compromises in governance, human rights, economic development, and security that require Islamist conformity with in international law in the geopolitically crucial South Asian country.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared his support for a series of legislative proposals put forward to protect Floridians and Florida-based institutions from being blacklisted by financial institutions who use woke and environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) metrics.
As countries around the world struggle with the rapid growth of unregulated, powerful surveillance tools, cybersecurity expert Ron Deibert warns that the mercenary spyware industry is “one of the greatest contemporary threats to civil society, human rights and democracy”.
At the 14th BRICS summit, the international grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced the association’s intention to develop a new international reserve currency most likely intended to target the U.S. dollar’s dominance as a world currency.
Five years after the launch of environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainable development goals (SDG), Japan has begun to shows signs of a pivot away from these types of investments as Japanese mainstream media increasingly questions the wisdom of these policies.
Dr. Joe Zammit-Lucia writing in CEOWorld discusses the recent article in the Economist dissecting the future of Environmental, Society and Governance (ESG) and goes further, suggesting the failures of ESG are not simply the in the results but the framework itself.
Kenneth Rapoza writing for Forbes analyses how environmental policies to fight climate change are having a negative effect for farmers, negatively affecting the supply chain and forcing offshoring of locally grown food.
Russian oil supplier Transneft, who supplies oil through the southern Druzhba pipeline servicing Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic has stopped delivery citing issues with EU financial sanctions.
Adding to the list of 200 British citizens banned from entering Russian territory, the country has added an additional 39 individuals including prominent politicians and journalists, due to, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, their contribution « to London’s hostile course aimed at demonizing of our country and its international isolation.”
Aiming to reduce gas consumption by 7 percent in an effort to save energy before the winter, Spain's government ordered all businesses to limit their temperatures, air conditioning cannot be lowered below 27 degrees Celsius (80°F) in summer and heating cannot exceed 19 degrees Celsius (66°F) this winter.
The leadership of Afghanistan’s Islamic Emirate has reiterated that the regime remains committed to sharia law and, therefore, will continue to reject any compromises in governance, human rights, economic development, and security that require Islamist conformity with in international law in the geopolitically crucial South Asian country.
According to africacenter.org, the trendlines are negative for the security environment in the African Sahel region, due to Intensifying and expanding Islamist extremism that includes a broad swathe of countries extending from the northern Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Aden on the Indian Ocean.
Islamists in Sudan are regaining power in state positions and politics with Islamists returning to key positions in the military, intelligence, and diplomatic services, forming a new umbrella political coalition known as the “Broad Islamist Current”, and turning the strategically located East African country away from its brief, recent course of integration into international organizations.
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