Abu Dhabi / WAM The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) in collaboration with the General Secretariat for the Conservation of the Arabian Oryx, organised an online webinar titled “Education and outreach programmes of Arabian Oryx Conservation institutions in the UAE: Successes and future priorities”. Dr Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri, Secretary-General of EAD, said, “The organising of this webinar by ...

DUBAI / WAM The 50-year Development Plan Committee, in partnership with the General Women’s Union (GWU) launched several discussion panels for the preparation for the next 50 years plan under the title “Planning for the Fifty-Fifty … Women are Support for the Homeland”. The discussions, under the patronage of HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union ...

RIYADH / WAM The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai announced the launch of its volunteering campaign, in partnership with the Emirates Foundation. The initiative aims to attract an estimated 1,000 Saudi nationals to take part in the pavilion activities for the duration of the World Expo from October 2021 to March 2022. Speaking on the initiative, ...

Bloomberg Chile’s government is considering ways to boost the attractiveness of green-hydrogen projects as the biggest copper-producing nation strives to become carbon neutral. “We will announce the details early November,” Energy Minister Juan Carlos Jobet said in an interview in Santiago. “It will come in the form of some financial assistance to allow investors to have returns during the early ...

Bloomberg Noble Energy Inc shareholders approved the company’s acquisition by Chevron Corp, cementing one of the US oil industry’s biggest transactions this year. The vote during a virtual shareholder meeting came despite opposition from Elliott Management Corp. The activist hedge fund was said to seek a break-up of the deal because it thought Chevron wasn’t paying enough. The biggest proxy-advisory ...

Bloomberg The nuclear industry should tap into rising investor interest in hydrogen-fuel to revive the flagging prospects of reactor operators in an increasingly crowded marketplace for clean power. That was the message delivered by executives and scientists who convened at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Higher demand for hydrogen from industry and heavy transport could make production of the ...

Bloomberg Suncor Energy, Canada’s biggest oil-sands producer, will trim 10% to 15% of its workforce in the next 18 months, joining a long list of energy companies in Alberta that have announced layoffs following a collapse in fuel demand due to the virus. Suncor had already been preparing for a smaller workforce but the planned cuts, which could affect as ...

When Boris Johnson announced on March 27 that he’d tested positive for Covid-19, Brits were in shock, much as Americans were when they heard President Donald Trump was infected. The UK prime minister was the first leader of a major country to be hospitalised with the virus, an event that was characterised as “routine” at first before the illness took ...

In recent weeks, India’s government has shown unusual amounts of energy in pushing through long-awaited economic reforms. The last session of Parliament — cut short when several MPs tested positive for Covid-19 — was exceptionally productive. Two labour-law amendments were passed, as was a package of measures addressing the agricultural sector. However you look at it, these moves take India ...

In many cases, the pandemic has served to entrench the previously existing winners and losers in the retail sector. Chains such as Macy’s Inc and Kohl’s Corp, already deeply challenged before the public health crisis, look no closer to a turnaround. Walmart Inc and Target Corp, meanwhile, have solidified their dominance with turbocharged sales. Against that backdrop, the latest quarterly ...