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...That’s not to say my wardrobe is exclusively informed by “The Shows”, but the fact is that the parade of sexy secretaries in glittery knickers hurrying down the catwalk at Miu Miu autumn/winter 2023 reawakened...
...with energy secretary Jennifer Granholm....
...Take a break from the news In 2017 Cat Person, a short story which appeared in the New Yorker by previously obscure writer Kristen Roupenian, went viral....
...(Kristen Talman) Climate finance: It’s not just the money Amid the bustle of the IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington last week, US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen sounded an ominous note on climate...
...“The Department of Defense is so myopically focused on a Taiwan invasion scenario that they are neglecting the current threat,” says Kristen Gunness, an expert on the PLA at the Rand Corporation, a Washington...
...In a voting bulletin, BlackRock applauded Samsung for adding to its board Wha-Jin Han, South Korea’s former environmental secretary....
...Also in today’s newsletter, we have a report from Kristen on the green jobs market. And Tamami goes inside the renewable energy market in China....
...Quote of the day UN secretary-general António Guterres called for continued progress on climate agreements as the official COP26 policy discussions come to a close....
...With the support of the Asian Development Bank and former US Treasury secretary Hank Paulson, her organisation this week launched a programme to raise $3bn to protect bird habitats from Siberia to New Zealand...
...US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, speaking at the same event, did not mention carbon pricing but made an explicit call for multilateral development banks to “go further” on climate change....
...TPG’s fund is being led by former Goldman Sachs chief and US Treasury secretary Hank Paulson (who we interviewed in depth on this topic back in January) and TPG executive chair Jim Coulter....
...TPG is raising $5bn for a climate and clean technology fund, with former Treasury secretary Hank Paulson to serve as chair....
...A speech yesterday from US labour secretary Marty Walsh sent gig economy companies’ shares tumbling when he suggested that gig workers should be classified as employees and “treated respectfully”....
...(Kristen Talman) Chart of the day Bitcoin has a big climate problem....
...clothing industry over water use Climate opportunity is ‘akin to the digital revolution’ of 40 years ago On Wednesday afternoon Moral Money sat down to chat with former Goldman Sachs chief and US Treasury secretary...
...That is very welcome, [particularly] with Janet Yellen [the new Treasury secretary] having co-authored a paper on carbon prices....
...The fact that Janet Yellen, Mr Biden’s pick for Treasury secretary, is a founding member of the CLC, probably helps its prospects....
...(Kristen Talman) Can Republicans learn to love Paris? Is there any chance of a bipartisan deal to curb climate change under the leadership of US president-elect Joe Biden?...
...Additionally, Mr Kerry’s financial disclosure from his last year as secretary of state shows family investments in Anadarko and Marathon Oil, among other oil-and-gas companies....
...(Billy Nauman) UN boss tells development banks to cut off coal António Guterres (pictured), secretary-general of the UN, called on development banks across the world to stop funding fossil fuels in a speech...
...(Kristen Talman) The blank cheques inked in green Welcome to more alphabet soup....
...Sarah Bloom Raskin (pictured above), a former deputy Treasury secretary, is whispered to be a contender for the department’s top job should Mr Biden win....
...Launched in 2006 under UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, PRI has grown to include 3,370 signatories from the European Stability Mechanism to servicers such as Vigeo Eiris....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Further reading Companies desperate for cash must be better corporate citizens (FT) Ben & Jerry’s clashes with UK home secretary over migrants (FT) CEO changes could be more of...
...Last year António Guterres, UN secretary-general, sought to tackle this head on when he called together 30 chief executives from the world’s largest companies, banks and pension funds to form the Global...
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