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Exxon plays hardball against climate NGOs. Will investors care?
Exxon plays hardball against climate NGOs. Will investors care?
by  AFP

ExxonMobil investors will have a chance to weigh in at Wednesday's annual meeting on the company's hardball approach to the latest shareholder challenge from environmentalists over climate change. ExxonMobil argued that the proposal was the same as one rejected by nearly 90 percent of company shareholders at the 2023 meeting.

Countries at odds over how to reignite pandemic agreement
Countries at odds over how to reignite pandemic agreement
by  AFP

Countries aired stark differences Tuesday on where to go next in trying to strike a global agreement for handling future pandemics, after missing a deadline to finalise a deal. But the negotiations ended last Friday without finalising a deal.

French delicatessen Fauchon bought by Breton biscuit firm
French delicatessen Fauchon bought by Breton biscuit firm
by  AFP

French gourmet food and delicatessen company Fauchon said Tuesday it has been bought out by Galapagos, a Brittany-based biscuit maker. "Eucelia Investments SA, investment company of the Ducros family, has chosen to sell the company to the Tacquard family at the head of the Breton group Galapagos," according to a statement that did not give a value for the deal.

New Caledonia unrest pushes nickel sector deeper into crisis
New Caledonia unrest pushes nickel sector deeper into crisis
by  AFP

Weeks of unrest in New Caledonia have plunged the archipelago's nickel industry, already on government life support, closer to catastrophe, sector representatives say. And although France has lifted a state of emergency across the territory after two weeks of unrest in which seven people died and hundreds were injured, few expect a fast return to normality in the nickel industry.

Climate change caused 26 extra days of extreme heat in last year: report
Climate change caused 26 extra days of extreme heat in last year: report
by  AFP

The world experience an average of 26 more days of extreme heat over the last 12 months that would probably not have occurred without climate change, a report said on Tuesday. They concluded that "human-caused climate change added -- on average, across all places in the world -- 26 more days of extreme heat than there would have been without it".

120 business leaders back UK's Labour in election
120 business leaders back UK's Labour in election
by  AFP

The UK's Labour party won the backing on Tuesday of 120 business leaders, in a timely boost as it bids to oust the ruling Conservatives in the upcoming general election. Labour leader Keir Starmer and its finance spokesperson Rachel Reeves -- who is set to become finance minister if the party wins power -- have spent years wooing back business figures.