[ad_1] The companies joined the campaign, started by billionaire hedge fund manager Chris Hohn, urging companies to improve their emissions reporting practices and climate strategies. In mid-February, Glencore announced that shareholders would have the opportunity to vote on the company’s climate policy initiatives at the annual general meeting in April. …
Read More »WHO: The intensity of the pandemic in the world continues to increase
[ad_1] “To understand the scale: there were almost as many cases last week as in the first five months of the pandemic,” Ghebreyesus said. The situation in India in particular is “more than heartbreaking”. The WHO has not yet published new weekly figures on its page. On April 19, it …
Read More »Cancel culture in Lithuania, or Why do Lithuanians withdraw people from public life? | Names
[ad_1] Once upon a time, some people who bragged on magazine covers, discussed themselves widely in the media, or who chose brands like faces are now or have been out of public life for some time. And not voluntarily, they were simply withdrawn, pushed to the margins of society, condemned …
Read More »Seven Lithuanian beaches received the blue flag and, for the first time, Vilnius
[ad_1] “International Blue Flag certificates and the right to hoist blue flags on the beaches of Balsis (Green Lakes) and Žirmūnai were awarded to two public beaches in Vilnius after implementing 33 strict requirements in the categories of education and information, water quality , environmental management, safety and quality of …
Read More »The alarm bells are ringing: in a few years we will miss these healthcare professionals in Lithuania
[ad_1] The growing need for nurses Nurses are a special group of professionals who are always closer to the patient. They make up about 50 percent. of all healthcare workers in many countries. According to the World Health Organization, there are around 6 million people on the planet ready to …
Read More »The proposed minimum global corporate tax: what would this mean for Lithuania and its competitiveness? | Deal
[ad_1] With the growing weight of the digital economy in the world, the tax system has faced many challenges for decades. To traditional tax evasion schemes By uniting fully legal ways of operating in many countries and paying taxes largely in select countries, states and organizations are constantly introducing new …
Read More »Finland was also defended from Soviet aggression by thousands of Swedish volunteers.
[ad_1] “… Here in Sweden, people are very eager to help Finland. Clothes and money are collected and everything is sent there. I myself went up to the attic yesterday and took out everything I could …” – The December 7, 1939, Astrida Lindgren, author of All the Beloved Karlson …
Read More »Berankis was lucky: even after losing, he made it to the main stage
[ad_1] In the second qualifying round of the ATP 250 Series BMW Open men’s tennis tournament in Munich, Germany Ričardas Berankis (ATP-89) after 1 hour 38 minutes of fighting 2: 6, 6: 3, 0: 6 landed a 27-year-old Belarusian Ilya Ivashi (ATP-111). Despite the failure, Berankis got a second chance …
Read More »The baby stopped growing in the womb: the woman gave birth 7 weeks earlier and could not see the baby for 10 days due to contact with COVID-19 | Life
[ad_1] Association “I help to grow” – one of 24 kindness initiatives sponsored by the 15-minute portal project throughout 2021 “I was good this year”. The association provides psychosocial assistance, emotional support and organizes mutual assistance groups for families in crisis, the birth of a premature baby, in cases of …
Read More »Expert: Russia has left a slow-running mine near Ukraine
[ad_1] The former vice president of the Security Service of Ukraine, Major General Viktor Jahun, tells Apostrof that he should not relax. “There is no way to relax.” Perhaps Russia will actually take the troops back to their permanent places of deployment, but I doubt that those places are much …
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