When it comes to managing Covid-19, few countries have a spotless record. This includes the UK, where early mixed messages from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, too-soon reopenings later on and some potentially risky vaccine strategies marred the response. I have been critical, for instance, of Britain’s decision to extend the dosing interval of the Pfizer Inc-BioNTech SE vaccine without any ...

Time and again during the past year, we’ve seen how the pandemic has accelerated shifts in consumer behaviour. So it stands to reason that a retailer would respond to that sped-up pace of change by pulling forward investments to accommodate it. That’s the lens through which to view Walmart Inc’s fiscal-year guidance, which includes $14 billion in capital spending, a ...

The details of what went wrong in Texas — most likely the biggest forced blackout in US history — will take time to establish. So will exactly what to do about it. But this emergency already underlines something that should’ve been obvious before. As the growing threat of extreme weather puts vital economic systems at risk, climate resilience needs to ...