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...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...Ultimately, individual governments, banks, investors and companies will decide whether all these goals are met....
...Inflation in the United States and the 20-country eurozone is easing, fuelling speculation that central banks may cut interest rates later this year after record-high rates since the Covid-19 pandemic and...
...Both the renewable energy and fossil fuel sector were “at liberty at any other time of year to conduct business”, said Tessa Khan, an international climate change lawyer and campaigner....
...Sultan al-Jaber, president of COP28 and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, courted dozens of diplomats and ministers overnight on Tuesday to back the compromise deal....
...Green activists will be yelling about the grotesque parody of having a huge fossil fuel producer, the United Arab Emirates, as COP host: Sultan al-Jaber, COP president, also runs Adnoc, the state-owned oil...
...For François Megret, head of carbon trading at First Abu Dhabi Bank — which is the UAE’s biggest lender, an official partner of the COP28 summit and a backer of Blue Carbon — carbon trading between states...
...“You could say that the United States isn’t what it was in relative terms, 10, 15, 20 years ago,” says Jon Alterman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies....
...The United Arab Emirates made the joint-biggest pledge of any nation, at $100mn. This might not seem surprising....
...We continue to have the second lowest level of government debt in the G7, lower than Japan, France or the United States....
...Its industrial capacity would be “devastated”, partly by its economic policy of becoming an agricultural superpower “as recommended by the EU and the United States” and its population would continue to shrink...
...The United States Attorneys around America started engaging a lot more....
...And central banks, they can have a pretty hard time knowing where all that physical cash has gone....
...So in theory it’s not receiving state resources, it’s not receiving any of the petrodollar revenues because that goes to the state....
...He already chairs ADQ, another state investment fund, First Abu Dhabi Bank, the nation’s largest lender, and International Holding Company, a conglomerate that has risen from obscurity to boast a market...
...The group had begun developing relations with international banks, he added, including securing a loan of “several billion dollars” from Standard Chartered and was engaging with Goldman Sachs and UBS....
...This is about a very small subset of women who can go to a plaintiffs’ law firm and say, ‘Look, my target is a billionaire.’” V....
...Today I explain why the EU’s chief diplomat told the UN last night that Russia’s war is a threat to all countries, while our energy editor parses a warning from the head of the International Energy Agency...
...So I’ll just start by saying, here I am with Hillary Rodham Clinton, former secretary of state of the United States, and we’re here to talk about the future of democracy. Hillary Clinton Mm-hmm....
...But that blurring of state and royal interests could become a concern for foreign investors....
...And yet Georgia has secured $15bn in clean energy projects in recent months, more than any other state....
...“We hope that this investigation by the United States will be truly independent, credible, and thorough, following the evidence where it leads, up and down the chain of command,” the family said in a statement...
...That global macroeconomic movements this year have been in large part due to the United States Federal Reserve is so obvious that this paragraph is pointless....
..., Covid et al) wouldn’t bring globalisation to a halt....
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