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2024 EU greenhouse gas emissions: -20% since 2013

In 2024, the EU economy’s greenhouse gas emissions by economic activities and households totalled 3.3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalents. This represents a 1% decrease compared with 2023 and a 20% reduction compared with 2013. Between 2013 and 2024, the energy sector (supply of

Cold War-level nuclear tensions return to Northeast Asia

With US-Russia relations already badly damaged by the Ukraine war, the treaty that has restrained the number of US and Russian nuclear warheads is about to expire. That is only one of three factors pushing Northeast Asia toward an era of heightened nuclear tension. One result

The role of the IB in Azerbaijan’s education sector

When the British government announced last year it would withdraw funding for the International Baccalaureate in state schools, the financial saving was a modest £2.5 million a year, a tiny fraction of the national education budget. The consequence, however, was anything but