"To truly cut emissions, offsets must be AVID+: Additional, Verifiable, Immediate, Durable — and help meet other societal goals (the 'plus')."
Daron Acemoglu ... suggests that the adoption of robots from 1990 to 2020 resulted in fewer jobs and lower wages overall.
"A toxic corporate culture is by far the strongest predictor of industry-adjusted attrition ..."
As world leaders pledge more action on climate change, one so-called solution—burning trees for electricity—could undermine progress.
Europe is betting big on wood to replace coal, but the industry is taking heat for stoking carbon emissions and air pollution.
Drax received more than £800m in subsidies last year for burning woody biomass at its Selby plant, but the UK's classing of biomass as renewable is contentious.
Researchers from MIT Sloan School of Management have found that wood pellets burned in European and UK power plants actually emit more CO2 per kilowatt hour than that generated by coal.
"The combination of the high inflation rate and the tight labour market suggests that there is no need for strongly expansionary Fed policies."
"Today was probably the largest demonstration of aggregation risk that we've seen."
Founded by Jon Acquaviva (SF '21), Shinji Angata (SF '21), and Edward Wang, Pelicargo is a new logistics-tech company …
