A third of consumers admitted to ignoring what brands say about sustainability because it confuses them.
Category: 3. Europe
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Going round in circularity: Most Brits confused by sustainability language, survey finds
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Global sell-off worsens and Dow Jones tumbles as China hits back at US
Stock markets worldwide sunk even lower on Friday after China announced that it would impose a 34% tariff on imported goods from the US, matching the rate set by US President Donald Trump earlier this week.
Not even a better-than-expected report on the US job market, which is usually…
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Art Paris returns in full glory: Sunshine, sculpture, and a century of design in the Grand Palais
“This place is magnificent!” states Ghislaine Escande, a painter and visual artist who has been coming to Art Paris since the very beginning. And she’s not the only one to say so.
For its 27th edition, the modern and contemporary art fair is celebrating its return to the Grand…
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The 50-year-old code that reshaped the world: Bill gates on the ‘revolution’ that started Microsoft
Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology.
Although the code that Gates printed out on a teletype machine may look crude compared to what’s powering today’s…
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Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault
The presenter-turned-conspiracy theorist first faced public allegations in the form of a British TV investigation.
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Dispute with Israeli government overshadows Buchenwald camp liberation anniversary – POLITICO
Israeli officials accuse Boehm, a philosophy professor at the New School for Social Research in New York with double German-Israeli citizenship, of trivializing the Holocaust.
“The decision to invite Omri Boehm, a man who has described Yad Vashem [Israel’s memorial to Holocaust…
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We know next to nothing about 99 per cent of the world’s insects: Here’s why that’s a problem
While we regularly hear about population declines in ‘charismatic’ insects like bees, huge data gaps make it hard to protect the rest.
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Another summer of disruption? Spain’s anti-tourism protests reignite ahead of Easter break
Last summer, Spain erupted with protests driven by the soaring tourist numbers putting a strain on residents’ daily lives.
More than 90 million foreign visitors descended on the country in 2024, and consultancy firm Braintrust estimates that the number of arrivals will rocket to…
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Mexico rejoices dodging new US tariffs, but still hit by economic woes
Mexico celebrated on Thursday after dodging the latest round of tariffs from the White House, which took aim at dozens of US trading partners around the world. The nation was nonetheless reminded that in a global economy, the effects of uncertainty can’t be entirely…
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Trump administration will head to London energy summit … and into a row – POLITICO
U.K. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband hopes to use the summit to promote his vision of homegrown renewable power, which he says will liberate the country from fossil fuels and the wild gas price swings that have harmed industry and consumers since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The…
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