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29th Mar 2024

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UN warns of five overlooked environment threats

UN environment experts on Monday presented their latest report on environmental challenges facing the planet Frontiers 2018/19, highlighting five key issues of emerging concern for the planet: gene-editing techniques; fragmentation of previously-intact landscapes around the globe; vulnerability of permafrost peatlands, widespread nitrogen pollution and maladaptation to climate change.

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Opinion

EU Modernisation Fund: an open door for fossil gas in Romania

Among the largest sources of financing for energy transition of central and eastern European countries, the €60bn Modernisation Fund remains far from the public eye. And perhaps that's one reason it is often used for financing fossil gas projects.

'Swiftly dial back' interest rates, ECB told

Italian central banker Piero Cipollone in his first monetary policy speech since joining the ECB's board in November, said that the bank should be ready to "swiftly dial back our restrictive monetary policy stance."

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