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Time running out for successful response to climate change

By Eva Psalti Climate change refers to the long-term change in temperature and its variation from typical weather patterns. Although the Earth’s climate has been changing throughout its history, since the industrial

16th December 2023

Comment/Guests/Life & Society

CyI offers climate, culture scholarships to Iraqi students

The Cyprus Institute will offer five full scholarships to postgraduate students from Iraq in 2024, and a further five partial scholarships, allowing them to pursue quality education and research in Europe, enhancing

13th December 2023

Cyprus/Middle East

Mega investments needed to tackle heatwave crisis

As the UK braces for a record heatwave, with scorching temperatures throughout Europe, US and Asia, experts warn that urgent investment is needed in sustainable goals to combat climate change, a crisis

18th July 2022

Life & Society/Markets/World

Private funding ‘essential’ to fight climate change

Increasing deadly weather extremes around the world, with the past seven years the hottest on record, prove that mobilising private capital is “essential” and “urgent” in order to combat climate change, according

11th January 2022

Markets/World

Banks must heed climate crisis

Cyprus Central Bank Governor Constantinos Herodotou urged all stakeholders to accelerate efforts to deal with the impact of climate change as an ECB stress test for banks looms next year. Addressing the

22nd October 2021

Cyprus/Economy

Biden’s vision for a new era of diplomacy

US President Joe Biden outlined his vision of the world at the 76th UN general assembly in New York and how he plans to lead America into a new era of diplomacy

3rd October 2021

Comment/Guests

Reinsurance outlook ‘stable’ amid economic recovery, says Moody’s

The outlook for reinsurance has changed to ‘stable’ from ‘negative’ as prices increase amid a worldwide economic rebound, supporting the sector’s earnings while capitalisation will remain solid, Moody’s Investors Service said Tuesday.

7th September 2021

International/World