January 16, 2020
1.1 trillion: The European Union wants to attract $1.1 trillion of public and private money to support its ambitious plans to reach carbon neutrality over the next ten years. Some member states are also boosting the money they're spending to go green. Germany's government this week said it would spend up to 44 billion euros to offset the impact of abandoning coal as a power source by 2038.
6: Just 6 percent of people in Chile said they approved of President Sebastian Pinera's performance in a recent poll, while 81 percent said the government had poorly handled a recent bout of unrest over rising income inequality.
2.5: Wikipedia is back online in Turkey, two and a half years after the online encyclopedia was blocked in the country after it refused to remove articles that the government didn't like. Turkey's supreme court ruled last month that the block was unconstitutional.
30: The online magazine Slate conducted a massive survey of experts in order to create a ranked list of the thirty most "evil" tech companies, based on their propensity to abuse their users' privacy and trust or to infringe on their workers' rights. Who takes the top spot? You might be surprised.
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GZERO World with Ian Bremmer is returning to your screens this week, kicking off Season 9 in a summer of sweltering global tensions. The United States is celebrating its 250th birthday, a war has reshaped the Middle East, AI is forcing humanity to confront profound ethical choices, and democracies around the world are bracing for what comes next. Host Ian Bremmer is here to make sense of it all.
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As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Bank of America is investing in the legacy of leadership — committing $5M to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and conserving 110 presidential portraits at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, so the history of leaders who defined our nation is preserved for generations to come. Learn more here.
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In his latest “ask ian,” Ian Bremmer says the US and China should use their growing engagement to address two major global challenges where cooperation could have an outsized impact: the war in Ukraine and the risks posed by artificial intelligence.
The trade bloc is also reducing its quota of tariff-free steel imports, as trade tensions mount with Beijing.
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