For broadcasters, sports brands, Tiger Woods crash forces rethink
The car crash that severely injured Tiger Woods will force golf broadcasters and brands to face life without their biggest star sooner than they expected. Woods, 45, hasn’t been a reliable presence on golf’s biggest stage in years, and the sport has started to move on to its new crop of athletes. But everyone from […]
‘Nature is our home’: New UK report urges big economic rethink
Nations will have to rethink economic growth as a measure of success if they want to make good on pledges to halt the destruction of the natural world, according to a British government-backed report published on Tuesday. With countries due to meet in China in May for a UN-led summit to agree on a new […]
It is time to rethink international development cooperation
2021 is here and the world is still struggling with one of the most devastating pandemics of modern times. Even certain developed economies have found themselves unable to efficiently respond to this global public health emergency, while the situation in most developing countries is alarming. The economic consequences of the pandemic have also cast a […]
Is ‘Big Oil’ becoming ‘Big Carbon’? Revenue falls force rethink
Oil companies such as BP and Shell are nurturing nature as a future revenue stream, betting on an expected rise in carbon credit prices as their fossil fuel profits ebb. BP last year put $5m into Finite Carbon, a company that connects forestry owners with companies seeking to offset their climate-warming emissions via tree planting. […]
Philippe Sands: ‘Let’s rethink the concept of genocide’ #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
#AJOpinion hears from British lawyer Philippe Sands on the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials. . Source link
We need to rethink the concept of genocide #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Seeing genocide as less exceptional may help us view war crimes and crimes against humanity in a more serious light. Seventy-five years ago, in the autumn of 1945, the Nuremberg trial opened in the Palace of Justice in Courtroom 600. On the first day, a new word was spoken in a court of law for […]
Amid devastating US fires, experts urge fire prevention rethink #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
It is the fuel – the dry grass, the crispy leaves, the parched shrubbery and the dead trees caused by climate change’s shortened rainy season – that is making the 2020 fire season one of the worst in US history. Some 3.4 million hectares (8.3 million acres) were burned in Washington state, Oregon, California, Arizona, […]