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...In Dubai, a group of countries are pushing for a global agreement to phase out fossil fuels to achieve the Paris accord goal of ideally limiting the global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial...
...Burnham easily won a third term, as expected, albeit on a slightly reduced vote share of 63 per cent....
...In 2023, Labour’s mayor in Greater Manchester Andy Burnham became the first to take the local bus network under public control after almost 40 years of deregulation, a move that has so far proved popular...
...Street also worked closely with Greater Manchester’s Labour mayor Andy Burnham on the HS2 alternative, which is being considered by the government....
...In Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham easily landed another term as Labour mayor while the party also won other mayoralties, including Liverpool, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, by big margins....
...In response to the decision, the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street and Labour’s mayor in Greater Manchester Andy Burnham commissioned their own review into prospective alternatives that...
...Burnham insisted he was not avoiding politically difficult decisions by jettisoning the charging zone....
...At a meeting in Leeds, Andy Burnham, Greater Manchester mayor, noted that just 37.2 per cent of Avanti’s trains arrived on schedule in the quarter that followed the company’s contract extension, compared...
...The conference is also a time when the diaspora of Michael Milken’s failed investment bank Drexel Burnham & Lambert reconvene and pay homage to the “junk bond king”, whose popularisation of leveraged finance...
...Street and his Labour counterpart in Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, are focused on the same economic development priorities — and have essentially the same devolution deals — because the same things are...
...“I’ve completely run out of patience,” said Greater Manchester’s Labour mayor Andy Burnham. “I cannot accept this railway line being left in this perennial state of chaos.”...
...Burnham wants ministers to then provide further subsidy....
...So far, so good, although whether that is enough to truly restore notoriously bad relations between Burnham and the leader’s office remains to be seen. (Some close observers remain unconvinced.)...
...“You can do NPR without HS2 but it would cost a lot more,” said William Barter, an independent rail planning consultant....
...At the Birmingham end of HS2’s axed 2a and 2b phases, Conservative mayor Andy Street; at the Manchester end, Labour’s Andy Burnham....
...Burnham has already proposed a hotel tax as one revenue stream once the existing bus funding package runs out in 2025....
...This announcement is a pretty insulting reminder that the transformative, long-term investment we were promised is instead being parcelled out everywhere else under the banner of Network North,” said Andy Burnham...
...On either side there was Mozart, culminating in a performance of the C Minor Mass with pure-voiced Hera Hyesang Park leading the solo quartet....
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...That is why in every room our negotiators have been pushing tirelessly for decisions that align with staying under 1.5[C] degrees,” Schuster said....
...And you had some evidence for that from Williams today,” he said. “We think a cut is more likely in late spring or early summer....
...Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said Avanti should have been “left on probation” instead of having its contract renewed a month ago....
...Among the Handel items are the Suite No 2 in F Major, given a lively performance by Julian Perkins, and the Suite in C Minor for Two Keyboards, in which he is joined by Carole Cerasi....
...This is distinct from a long-term rise in average temperatures of 1.5°C that was set as a goal in the Paris climate accord in 2015. On this basis, the world has already warmed by 1.1°C....
...The so-called Burnham Park Project, featuring a mix of green space and transit infrastructure, is the second big headline for the Bears this week....
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