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Unravelling carbon credit trading opportunities

Unravelling carbon credit trading opportunities

India’s Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) could become an important source of domestic revenue and direct it toward the country’s clean energy transition as it faces a central financing challenge — how to support deep

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Restore voting rights for former prisoners

Restore voting rights for former prisoners

Here at Shawangunk Correctional Facility, a small maximum security prison in upstate New York, I am part of a nine-month reentry programme called Project Build. Every Friday morning, we gather around long, wooden tables and

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Farage’s dodgy dealings are finally pushing him to brink

Farage’s dodgy dealings are finally pushing him to brink

David Aaronovitch, The IndependentOn 3 June 2024, Nigel Farage announced that his retirement from politics was over, reversing a decision to stay out of the coming election which he had confirmed just a week earlier.

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'Act' or else!

'Act' or else!

'Act' or else!

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Food is medicine — Historic concept needs expansion

Food is medicine — Historic concept needs expansion

If the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. In the field of healthcare, and specifically regarding food’s influence on wellness, physicians in this country are highly trained and

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Orange card

Orange card

President Trump deserves an orange card for his red card corruption of FIFA and the game of soccer. When I played and coached a number of sports, one of the fundamental values was the umpires

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Rare American honour for Sharjah

Rare American honour for Sharjah

The American Library Association annual conference in Chicago this year was for the first time addressed by a non-American, and this fell to Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) CEO Ahmed Bin Rakkad Al Ameri.The privilege was

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What America was, and what it is now

What America was, and what it is now

When years ago, I was in Baghdad attending a conference on Palestine, I met a short and rather square Russian woman, wearing four rows of medals on her ample chest. She asked me where I

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Global race begins to finance survival on a hotter planet

Global race begins to finance survival on a hotter planet

With the UK now facing its third major heatwave of the year just weeks into summer, the sweltering temperatures of people’s homes and buckling public transport, have laid bare just how badly adapted the country

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Harsh weather

Harsh weather

The month of June 2026 has become lethal and harsh for European countries, as reports stated that France, the Netherlands, and Belgium recorded 3,700 excess deaths during the June heatwave that sent temperatures soaring across