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Is net zero a pipe dream without total inclusion?

There is an incontrovertible and sobering fact about the drive to net zero. Any effort that doesn’t work for the whole world will fail everywhere. A path that favours developed markets at the expense of others will lead to a partial net zero, which is no net zero at all. Unfortunately, too many countries, companies and investors see achieving this ...

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Washington should be welcoming to dissidents

Imagine a future in which foreign dissidents traveling to Washington are sued by their governments in US courts for defamation. A federal court may be on the verge of making this nightmare a reality. Last month a group of US government commissions and human-rights organisations, including the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and Freedom House, filed amicus briefs urging the ...

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UK airlines warn of more job cuts once furloughs expire

Bloomberg UK airlines are warning that thousands of jobs could be lost if the government fails to reverse course and offer the industry an extension of the furlough program with travel in a slump for a second summer season. Carriers have asked the government for a short-term, sector-specific jobs support plan to tide it through the usually lean winter months, ...

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Virgin Atlantic Airways mulls IPO in London

Bloomberg Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd is considering a public offering in London as the company gears up its business for recovery from the pandemic. Executives have been holding discussions with bankers and potential investors, and could announce the company’s plans for an IPO as soon as the autumn, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to ...

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Lufthansa sees long-haul recovery after $1.13b loss

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG is expecting long-haul travel to finally pick up this year alongside loosening Covid-19 restrictions and vaccine take up, giving some cause for optimism after a second-quarter loss of 952 million euros ($1.13 billion). North America could open up from late summer with Asia following from the end of the year, the company said in a statement. ...

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PepsiCo to sell juice brands to PAI Partners for $3.3 billion

Bloomberg PepsiCo Inc is to sell Tropicana, Naked and other juice brands to French private equity firm PAI Partners for about $3.3 billion as it seeks to bolster its balance sheet and focus on healthier snacks and zero-calorie drinks. The US drinks giant will retain a 39% noncontrolling interest in a new holding company for the brands and has also ...

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Odey sells stakes in Ryanair, BA

Bloomberg Odey Asset Management has sold its stakes in Ryanair Holdings Plc and British Airways’s (BA) owner International Consolidated Airlines Group, the Daily Mail reported, as the UK airline industry prepares for further job cuts. Fund manager James Hanbury sold his IAG holding after shares rebounded, the paper said. IAG rose 8.5% this year while Ryanair added 3.4%, both outperforming ...

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Amazon, Flipkart leading India EV transition face hurdles

Bloomberg Sourabh Saini, a delivery driver for Indian online supermarket BigBasket, is thrilled by the attention he gets as he zips around Noida, a satellite city on the outskirts of Delhi, in his three-wheeled electric van. “I like how my electric van always gets noticed,” said Saini, who made the switch from fossil fuels about eight months ago as part ...

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Twelve days in office and crisis swamps Peru’s leftist president

Bloomberg Peru’s new president is off to a rocky start, selecting contentious ministers, alienating allies and setting the stage for a brutal face-off with congress, all within days of taking office. A rural teacher and union activist, Pedro Castillo won the election after reassurances that he’s his own man, not beholden to his party’s Marxist ideology or chief. But when ...

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New York Gov’s top aide resigns amid harassment claims

Bloomberg Melissa DeRosa, the highest-ranking aide to Andrew Cuomo, resigned as the embattled New York governor contends with possible criminal charges over numerous harassment claims and a potential impeachment trial. DeRosa, who had remained one of Cuomo’s chief defenders throughout multiple scandals, said she would step down from her post as secretary to the governor after what she called a ...

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