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What Happens When a Happening Place Becomes Too Hot

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One of the inspirations was the Fuorisalone, the sprawling network of events related to Milan Design Week, the design world’s largest annual global event, that “gave new life to neighborhoods that were in the shadows,” he said. Milanese universities are also increasingly offering courses in English to broaden their international appeal.

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What is Extreme E? – 1# Ultimate beginners guide to Extreme E

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The championship is designed to highlight environmental challenges including the effects of global warming and its impact on the planets unique ecosystems. Ocean X Prix – Lac Rose, Senegal – 29-30 May. Desert X Prix – Alula, Saudi Arabia – 03-04 April. Arctic X Prix – Kangerlussuaq, Greenland – 28-29 August.

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

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Formula E , the FIA’s offshoot of the global spectacle that is Formula 1 , has gone from awkward baby steps to sprint-level speed in just eight years. Internal combustion is notoriously inefficient, turning at most 40 percent of burnt fossil-fuel energy into forward motion.

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IISD Releases Five-Part Series of Reports on Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Geneva-based Global Subsidies Initiative ( GSI ) has issued a five-part series of reports into how nations might remove fossil-fuel subsidies, on the eve of a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington this week. in total by 2010 to 0.7% per year to 2050.

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BHP offboards its petroleum business in merger with Woodside; focus on “future-facing commodities”

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The all-stock merger will create a global top 10 independent energy company by production, and will also allow BHP to focus more intently on “future-facing commodities” that are most positively leveraged towards population growth, rising living standards, electrification and decarbonization, the company said. The project will deliver 4.35

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