Barclays Bank has announced it would reduce its carbon footprint to net zero by 2050 as it conceded to investor pressure over its climate track record. The London headquartered bank had promised to align all of its financing activities with the goals and timelines of the Paris agreement. It will start with rethinking of its…
The coronavirus pandemic bringing down global demand for oil as well as the breakdown of the production pact between the oil cartel OPEC and Russia and other oil producers earlier this month has crashed global oil prices to its lowest since 2002. At one point on Monday, the Brent crude fell to $22.58 a barrel…
With most cities in Europe being in a lockdown so as to contain the Wuhan Coronavirus, air pollution is falling significantly in urban areas across Europe, shows new satellite images on Monday. Cities including Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Milan and Madrid have shown a reduction in average levels of noxious nitrogen dioxide from March 5 to…
More than $800 million to support businesses, organizations and healthcare workers has been committed by Google, to help the in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and most of that amount will be in the form of free advertising. A total of $250 million in ad grants — an increased amount compared to the $25…
In order to reduce the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, measures to measures to cut the wages of its players and staff are being taken by the football club FC Barcelona, the club said this week. After a meeting of the board of directors of the club through a video conference, it announced that…
A BBC report has claimed that Virgin Atlantic will be approaching the United Kingdom government for a bailout package worth hundreds of millions of pounds soon as it is hit very hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Other airlines also expected to ask the government for help. The government has said that it will intervene to…
Fashion brand Ralph Lauren will be now manufacturing medical masks and gowns. This is the latest fashion and designer brand that has come up ahead to support the global fight against the deadly coronavirus. The charitable arm of the fashioner designer will implement the shift from fashion products to masks, the company announced on Thursday.…
Senior administrators in the Trump administration have agreed to further tighten restrictions of semiconductors on Huawei Technologies. Under the newly proposed rules, foreign companies that use U.S. chipmaking equipment will now have to obtain a U.S. license before supplying certain chips to Huawei. According to one of the sources, rule will slash the supply of…
United states based auto giant Ford Motor announced on Thursday that it intends to start production again at one of its “key” assembly plants in North America as early as April 6. The unit was closed down last week because of intense pressure from workers’ union to do so in order to prevent the spread…
Cyber security specialists have formed an international group to fight hacking related activities revolving around China’s coronavirus. The international group consisting of nearly 400 volunteers with expertise in cybersecurity is called the COVID-19 CTI League. The group which monitors cyber threat intelligence spans across 40 countries and includes professionals in senior positions at major tech…
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