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Bill Gates told says the world probably won’t meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature rise below 2C. But in an interview in Dubai, the Microsoft co-founder praised COP28 for making progress on tackling climate change despite geopolitical tensions. --------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://trib.al/KM4k5RASubscribe to Bloomberg…

US Vice President Kamala Harris reaffirmed the US’s pledge to contribute $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund and said the US is on track to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of delivering $11 billion in climate finance by 2024.“Our action collectively, or worse, our inaction, will impact billions of people for decades to come,” she said. “Around the…

President Narendra Modi has offered his country as the host of COP33 in 2028. The world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases reaffirmed its target to achieve net zero emissions by 2070 and said it’s on track to reach a 50% clean power target in its grid.Modi called for a “just, inclusive and equitable” energy transition and reminded dozens o…

Fashion Designer and Climate Activist Stella McCartney discusses sustainable fashion, collaborating with other designers to inform people to consume less and needing incentives in the future, a policy change in the industry to help it become cleaner. She spoke with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua at COP28 Climate Conference in Dubai. --------Subscribe …

Maldives is looking to build an artificial island that could house half its population, and help relieve overpopulation. --------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://trib.al/KM4k5RASubscribe to Bloomberg Originals: https://trib.al/dJv9Uw8Bloomberg Quicktake brings you global social video spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Mak…

How does Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu manage the tug-of-war between 2 of its biggest investors India and China?--------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://trib.al/KM4k5RASubscribe to Bloomberg Originals: https://trib.al/dJv9Uw8Bloomberg Quicktake brings you global social video spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make se…

Roughly 99% of the world’s bananas are threatened by a fungus. To save them, scientists are turning to genetic modification.For 40 years, farmers, scientists and major producers in the industry have watched with growing anxiety as the fungus García-Bastidas saw, Fusarium odoratissimum, or Tropical Race 4, marched through banana plantations in South…

Londoners have more freedom to work from home than employees in Paris, according to a survey by Bloomberg Intelligence, suggesting that UK workers have more bargaining power in its tight job market.The survey, conducted Nov. 15, found that 20% of workers in Paris are not allowed to work from home, while in London the number is 4%. The results from …

The George Santos fiasco is finally at an end, at least in Congress, with the US House of Representatives — including 105 of his Republican colleagues — voting Friday to expel him. The 311-114 vote comfortably cleared the two-thirds majority needed to make him only the third House member to be expelled since the Civil War.Santos himself was mostly …

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a new deal between Masdar and RWE to jointly invest up to £11 billion in the UK’s Dogger Bank giant offshore wind farm.“This is a huge boost for UK renewables, creating more jobs, helping to power 3 million homes and increasing our energy security,” Sunak said.He urged the world’s largest emitters to drive progr…

New economic data shows that the US economy is cooling. Here's what that means for Joe Biden plus other things that happened in Washington this week. --------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://trib.al/KM4k5RASubscribe to Bloomberg Originals: https://trib.al/dJv9Uw8Bloomberg Quicktake brings you global social video spanning business, technolo…

On Friday attorneys for former President Donald Trump appeared in a Fulton County Court. Lawyers for Trump asked for the dismissal of the case based on what they say are various flaws in the indictment drafted by Futon County DA Fani Willis.Steve Sadow, attorney for Trump told the court, "you take the facts as alleged in the indictment throughout t…

One of Elon Musk’s rockets carrying a South Korean spy satellite took off for orbit as the rivalry between the two Koreas expands beyond Earth.A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying Seoul’s first domestically made reconnaissance satellite launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 10:19 a.m. Friday, according to a SpaceX webcast. SpaceX end…

An Israeli government spokesperson on Friday suggested that actions by Hamas caused the termination in a temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. Israel resumed fighting in Gaza minutes after the temporary cease-fire deal ended.--------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://trib.al/KM4k5RASubscribe to Bloomberg Originals: https://trib.al/dJ…

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A moment of silence was held in honor of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. O'Connor died at the age of 93 Friday.O’Connor’s nomination in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan and subsequent confirmation by the Senate ended 191 years of male exclusivity on the high court.She was an unwavering voice of moderate conse…