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Claude Gascon, interim CEO of the GEF and Aziz Abduhakimov, Minister of Environment of the Republic of Uzbekistan, at the closing ceremony of the Eighth GEF Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Gascon was presented with a traditional Uzbek outfit. Credit: Stella Paul/IPSby Cecilia Russell (samarkand, uzbekistan)Friday, June 05, 2026Inter Press Service SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, June 5 (IPS) – “While pressures on public budgets are growing and geopolitical tensions rising, it can be tempting to see environmental finance as optional. It is not,” GEF Interim CEO and Chair Claude Gascon told the closing plenary of the Eighth GEF Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, today. For…

The EU is set to unveil its long-awaited tech sovereignty plan on June 3, with the package expected to include the Cloud and AI Development Act  and Chips Act 2.0, aimed at encouraging sovereign European cloud, AI and semiconductor capabilities.It comes amid a push to strengthen European AI infrastructure and move away from Chinese and U.S. dominance. The Cloud and AI Development Act specifically targets tripling EU data center capacity within five to seven years, with a focus on AI giga-factories and hyperscale infrastructure.Yet some industry members are warning that the bloc’s AI ambitions might be outpacing the physical capacity needed…

Looking for this year’s fitness must-haves? Healthista has rounded up the best gifts to give to every fitness enthusiast this Christmas  Calling all runners, gym goers, and Pilates lovers – we have just list of gifts your loved ones will need to make their fitness journey that much more exciting. Because we all know it’s the little things that help motivate us, especially after a fun yet indulgent holiday season. #1 Amonax Ab Roller Home Workout Set – £20.99 As the colder months have settled in, I have taken to working out at home more often because if I’m honest,…

This isn’t Google’s first foray into flexibility; the company has agreements with utilities across the US to limit or shift its own energy demand, which can help free up grid capacity. As the company pointed out in a blog post earlier this year, though, there are limits on how flexible a data center can be, and not every facility will be able to ramp down its power demand. “There is no one solution for expanding grid capacity and we’re continuing to explore all options, including the many avenues for load flexibility,” said Michael Terrell, Google’s global head of advanced energy,…

Democratic anxiety mounted on Friday about the turbulent personal history of Graham Platner, the party’s leading Senate candidate in Maine, as politicians, officials and strategists wrestled with how to respond to new reporting on his past behavior.The New York Times reported on Thursday that several women who dated Mr. Platner had recounted him acting in unsettling or intimidating ways. One woman recalled instances in which he had grabbed or yanked her, and also said that he knew when they were dating years ago that a tattoo he had on his chest was a Nazi symbol. (Several other women who dated…

Alphabet revealed plans to raise $80 billion in equity offerings as part of an ambitious push to expand its AI infrastructure.The Google parent said in a statement on June 1 that the funds will support “investments in its world-class AI compute infrastructure to meet its unprecedented customer demand.”The fundraise will consist of a $30 billion public offering of Class A Common Stock and Class C Capital Stock, alongside a $10 billion private investment from Berkshire Hathaway — building on the conglomerate’s previous $4.3 billion stake in Alphabet it acquired in November. An additional $40 billion at-the-market offering program for Class A…

On 5 March 2026, the Department of International Relations, together with LSE IDEAS, hosted a panel launching the landmark report from Women in Diplomacy entitled Strengthening the Representation of Women in Diplomacy: Lessons from the Field. Marta Kozielska, HE Laura Popescu and Alexander Evans joined the conversation, chaired by Professor Karen E Smith. From L to R: Professor  Karen E Smith (Chair), HE Laura Popescu, Alexander Evans and Marta KozielskaPhoto by Adele Kavaliauskaite As of today, less than one quarter of global ambassador posts are held by women. Women diplomats are restricted by institutionalised barriers to career development, known as…

Recent years have demonstrated that geopolitical developments can impact financial markets, but Silvia Pepino argues that the interaction between geopolitics and market dynamics is more fluid in strength and direction, and better understood through an International Political Economy lens than event-driven framing. In recent years, geopolitical developments, marked by greater fragmentation, geoeconomic competition, and episodes of conflict, have impacted financial market variables more than many investors had become accustomed to in earlier decades of a more stable and integrated world order. What is less widely recognised is that the relationship is not necessarily unidirectional. Increased market pressures can in turn influence the…

In February 2023, Global Witness filed a complaint with the US Securities and Exchange Commission against Shell. The issue was not a breach of law, but a gap between Shell’s stated sustainability commitments and its actual investment practices. In its 2021 annual report, Shell indicated that 12 per cent of its capital expenditure was directed toward renewable energy. However, internal data suggested that only around 1.5 per cent was allocated to solar and wind, with the remainder grouped under “transition energy”. It shows how a disconnect between promise and operational reality can emerge, persist through internal processes, and reach investors…