Denmark’s biggest bank has declared an end to fossil fuel financing, after concluding that 99.9% of its carbon footprint comes from financed emissions. Danske Bank supports “an orderly transition to low-carbon economies and will, for that reason, not offer refinancing or new long-term financing to oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) companies
The acronym VUCA originated in the 1980s, but it comes up often in this historical period precisely because of its meaning—Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity—which characterizes the current global scenario we are experiencing: V= Volatility, understood as instability, changeability U= Uncertainty, the emblem of this moment in history C= Complexity, that is, a
Nathan Abrams, Bangor University Irish novelist John Boyne published his novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in 2006. The protagonist, eight-year-old German boy Bruno, has no idea that his father is the kommandant of a concentration camp during the second world war. Bruno and his family are sent to live with their
by Tom Eblen, Kentucky Lantern Maybe some Kentucky Republicans are right: we do need a wall along our southern border. Otherwise all those poor and middle class Tennesseans who want to avoid their state’s high sales taxes will keep coming up here and crowding our stores. Who can blame them? Tennesseans now pay
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