In a statement, Ford Motor Co said it will produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days from its plant in Michigan in collaboration with General Electric’s healthcare unit. Following this, it can build 30,000 ventilators per month so as to treat patients afflicted with China’s Wuhan coronavirus. The simplified ventilator design, licensed by GE…
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…
