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Today’s ESG Updates Paris and Berlin Move to Soften the 2035 Car Emissions Target: A provisional Franco-German deal would hold carmakers to a 90% cut without the extra measures the Commission wanted, and could bring Britain inside the bloc’s local-content rules. Grid Bottlenecks Leave Britain Paying to Switch Wind Farms Off:The operator spent £47.9 million
Today’s ESG Updates States Urge Court to Shield Children’s Data in Character.AI Bankruptcy: Forty attorneys general want any buyer to protect chat histories, as the company plans to license its technology to Disney for $20 million. TROOPS to Merge with EFFORCE, Eyes Carbon Credit Market Access: The Nasdaq-listed firm says the deal adds blockchain and
Today’s ESG Updates McDonald’s AI Pricing Software Antitrust Worries: McDonald’s is facing potential antitrust scrutiny over a larger industry trend of using AI to set prices. UK Heat Pump Subsidies Cut in Defense Spending Bid: Ministers will be removing heat pump subsidies and cutting back on energy & net zero department spending to make space
Much of Aaron Sorkin’s new film “The Social Reckoning“ takes place in server rooms, where the algorithmic machinery that has shaped the last decade of human life is developed, maintained, and overseen. Sorkin’s focus is on “Meaningful Social Interactions,” or MSI, a ranking system that weights comments and reshares dozens of times — more heavily
Today’s ESG Updates Google and Apple’s Verification Nightmare: Facing an enormous number of lawsuits, tech companies have begun lobbying for influence in how age-verification laws are being written. Companies aim to stop private lawsuits by passing responsibility for prosecution to state Attorneys General. Driven by ‘privacy’ claims and First Amendment infringement for minors. Russia Latches
Today’s ESG Updates Global Shortages Reignite China’s Export Control Worries: Countries dependent on the state scramble to start negotiations as Beijing implements stricter controls. Watchdog Groups Highlight Justice Alito’s Oil Investments: Supreme Court Justice Alito recuses himself from Colorado state’s lawsuit over ties to oil companies. EPA Issues New Policy On Power Plant Emissions: Contrary
Artificial Intelligence (AI) could help advance health, education, scientific research and conservation, but its direction raises urgent questions about who benefits, who decides and what kind of world we leave behind. This article argues that universities must do more than teach people to use AI: they must strengthen independent judgement, democratic participation and responsibility for
Migration is one of the defining forces of the 21st century. It changes economies, societies, families and individual lives. Yet public debate often reduces it to a deceptively simple question, one which drives division and anger: are you for migration or against it? That is the wrong question. Human beings have always moved. They move
Today’s ESG Updates Trump’s Oil and Gas Donors Face Scrutiny: A Senate Democratic report links campaign support from energy companies to tax breaks, subsidies and environmental regulatory rollbacks under Trump. Trump Rolls Back Biden-Era Vehicle Efficiency Rules: The Transportation Department estimates the changes would add around 100 billion gallons of fuel consumption and $185 billion
Today’s ESG Updates Chicago Researchers Warn Super El Niño Could Drive Heat Deaths Past 450,000: A new analysis projects the current “super El Niño” could cause up to 451,000 excess heat deaths, with East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa hit hardest. EU Governments Move to Keep Carbon Prices From Spiking: EU countries agreed to keep more
Today’s ESG Updates EU Opens First Full-Scale CO₂ Storage Site: The project will store captured CO₂ beneath the North Sea, with plans to scale capacity as the EU works towards its 2030 carbon storage target. Trump Bans Three Media Outlets from White House Access: The president says CNN, MS NOW and Politico will be barred,
Today’s ESG Updates AI Data Center Boom Could Triple World’s Toxic E-Waste, Report Warns: A new Basel Action Network report warns that AI data center construction could triple the world’s annual output of toxic electronic waste over the next 25 years, with no real plan in place to handle it. Study Finds Microplastics Act as