South Africa in the news: COP26 summit opens: Focus on how to hit 1.5°C target — and billions in funding: World leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, to discuss how best to meet the promises made in Paris, 2015, at COP21. Led by COP26 President Alok Sharma, the negotiations will centre on how to avoid a …
Pandora papers: as ordinary Lebanese suffer, elite secretly drain off billions: Few Lebanese people will be surprised that the latest leak of offshore financial documents alleges senior Lebanese figures, including the current prime minister, have used offshore tax havens (although Najib Mikati, a businessman who took the top job in July, has denied this). That …
Coronavirus business loans: some directors may have defrauded billions from UK taxpayers: From pandemic to scamdemic. HM Treasury, CC BY-SA In the early days of the pandemic, UK chancellor Rishi Sunak announced business-loan schemes as part of the government’s suite of measures to keep businesses on their feet. This offered businesses the chance to borrow …
South Africa in the news: De Lille: Corruption in construction sector costing SA billions, investors: Graft in the construction sector has cost the state about R10 billion in price-fixing. JOHANNESBURG – Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille admitted South Africa had been left …: “South Africa” – BingNews SMMEs in South Africa in …
South Africa in the news: Saru in race to close deal as billions flow into rugby in Europe: The powershift in rugby towards the northern hemisphere took a further leap forward this week with confirmation that the Six Nations had concluded a multibillion-rand equity sale.: “South Africa” – BingNews David Smiedt: In 2003, David Smiedt …
South Africa in the news: The Hunt for Gaddafi’s Billions – Storyville: Find out when The Hunt for Gaddafi’s Billions – Storyville is on TV. Episode guide, trailer, review, preview, cast list and where to stream it on demand, on catch up and download.: “South Africa” – BingNews B.C. to offer second dose of COVID …
Fossil fuel subsidies amount to hundreds of billions of dollars a year – here’s how to get rid of them: Perutskyi Petro/Shutterstock Any feasible pathway out of the climate crisis involves dramatically lowering our consumption of fossil fuels. It’s astonishing, then, that many countries not only don’t reflect the damage caused by burning fossil fuels …
Earth has stayed habitable for billions of years – exactly how lucky did we get?: xtock / shutterstock It took evolution 3 or 4 billion years to produce Homo sapiens. If the climate had completely failed just once in that time then evolution would have come to a crashing halt and we would not be …
Vaccines are here, but how will we get them to billions of people?: The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has just been approved for widespread use in the UK and the government has ordered 40 million doses – enough to vaccinate 20 million people. The first 800,000 doses are expected to be delivered to the UK in the …
Billions of years ago, the rise of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere caused a worldwide deep freeze: Nostalgia for Infinity / shutterstock Around two and a half billion years ago the Earth was an alien world that would have been hostile to most of the complex life that surrounds us today. This was a planet where …
Toxoplasma ‘cat poo’ parasite infects billions – so why is it so hard to study?: New Africa/Shutterstock What if I told you that there is a good chance you are carrying a parasite that is transmitted through cat poo? Two billion people around the world carry Toxoplasma gondii so there may be more than a …
Water: underground source for billions could take more than a century to respond fully to climate change: Cenota Samula sinkhole in Yucatan, Mexico. Tono Balaguer/Shutterstock Groundwater is the biggest store of accessible freshwater in the world, providing billions of people with water for drinking and crop irrigation. That’s all despite the fact that most will …
Tech giants need to take more responsibility for the advertising that makes them billions: shutterstock Last week I was followed around the Internet by a pair of shoes. I had looked at them online as a gift for my father-in-law, but he didn’t like them, and neither did I. Yet no matter what site I …
South Africa in the news: Top 5 African Resources Wrongfully Exported and Earning Criminals Billions of Dollars: With most of the hunting occurring in South Africa and Tanzania, it is plain to see who is losing out on the money earned. Oil is already being drilled in certain countries within the continent. Never…: “South Africa” …
Green finance? Why global banks are pledging billions to fight climate change: Jordan Tan / shutterstock Banking giant HSBC has pledged US$ 100 billion (£76 billion) to “fight climate change”, to be spent on sustainable finance and investment over the next eight years. It also commits to increasing its own use of renewable energy and …