What now? Prepare for the next crisis July 28, 2010 PREDICTING the future can be a notoriously tricky business. If people declare with certainty that things will happen, they often don’t. While things that no one saw coming have a horrible habit of actually happening. The Asian financial crisis in 1997 came as everyone was talking about an “Asian economic miracle”, while the most recent [...]
There is nowhere to hide: the Gamepocalypse is nigh September 29, 2010 IT MIGHT seem unlikely that the same technology that lets you blow up zombies in an ultra-realistic fashion will also one day help send astronauts to Mars. But that is precisely graphics company NVIDIA’s line of work. The California-based firm manufactures 3D graphics chips both for games companies and the Russian federal space agency in [...]
City workers are showing restraint when it comes to spending their annual bonus January 17, 2011 Despite reports of a growing sense of confidence in the City, with around half of the UK’s banking and financial professionals stating that they are feeling positive about the year ahead, City workers are apparently remaining much more cautious when it comes to spending. Whilst remaining outwardly bullish about their prospects for 2011 (around 41 [...]
Green bank to invest £25bn in renewables June 29, 2010 AMBITIOUS plans for the green equivalent of 3i, the infrastructure investment behemoth set up by the government after the Second World War, were unveiled yesterday. A commission led by former Merrill Lynch European chairman Bob Wigley said a green investment bank would quickly be able to plough up to £25bn annually into climate change-related technologies. [...]
Green bank to invest £25bn in renewables June 29, 2010 AMBITIOUS plans for the green equivalent of 3i, the infrastructure investment behemoth set up by the government after the Second World War, were unveiled yesterday. A commission led by former Merrill Lynch European chairman Bob Wigley said a green investment bank would quickly be able to plough up to £25bn annually into climate change-related technologies. [...]
Copenhagen isn’t just about climate change December 6, 2009 THIS week, the world and his carbon emissions reduction adviser descend on Copenhagen, where they will try to save the planet. In between meetings, though, they will also be able to enjoy the city. Copenhagen is a small, manageable sort of a place, ideal for a city-break. At this time of year, the key thing [...]
Blue gold: the clear and liquid investment September 1, 2010 WARS have been fought over land, oil and diamonds but nothing is more fundamental to human existence than water. Now a combination of exponential population growth and climate change is rendering the blue gold an ever scarcer commodity. We are consuming water like never before – the US Environmental Protection Agency says that global water [...]
Blue gold: the clear and liquid investment September 1, 2010 WARS have been fought over land, oil and diamonds but nothing is more fundamental to human existence than water. Now a combination of exponential population growth and climate change is rendering the blue gold an ever scarcer commodity. We are consuming water like never before – the US Environmental Protection Agency says that global water [...]
Brown replaced as climate chief June 6, 2010 Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will take over from Britain’s Gordon Brown as co-chair of a UN group looking at ways to raise finance to help poor nations to combat climate change. “It’s decisive to ensure sufficient financing of measures against climate change in poor nations to get a new international climate deal in place,” [...]
Financial services sector has a key role for climate change December 6, 2009 The world’s eyes will turn to Copenhagen today as policy makers from across the globe gather for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. They are faced with a huge – some would say almost impossible – challenge. Achieving any meaningful agreement on the successor to the Kyoto treaty will require bridging national agendas as far [...]