On April 16, join us for a deep-dive conversation around the key findings of #HDR2024 , featuring Achim Steiner, Michele Lamont, Kanni Wignaraja, Prof. Ernesto Zedillo Yale Jackson School, & Peter Frankopan

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All day extravaganza next week British Library - and it's FREE ! There are a few (but not many) tickets left... …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/the-byro…

A huge privilege to take part alongside a group of brilliant thinkers Human Development @undp - doing really important work on how to address crucial questions about human aspirations and action regarding the natural world, climate & all our futures 🙏🙏🙏

Great back-and-forth about the challenges of summarizing global wildfire trends, with lessons for other climate impacts distributed unequally around the world:

'Overseas Indians sent home a record $29 billion by way of remittances in the December quarter'

'survey on remittances conducted by the RBI showed that the US is the largest source of remittances, accounting for 23%...flows from the Gulf region declined'
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(NB this is the only reference to golf in my book; I don’t want to put anyone off)

As the Masters starts, I hunt down a suitably topical stat from #EarthTransformed : if the UK *quintuples* current solar capacity by 2035 (as it is planning to do), solar farms would cover around half the land currently used for golf courses. You're welcome waterstones.com/book/the-earth…

Crikey.

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This is one reason I wanted to write about the natural world, climatic change - and consequences #EarthTransformed 👇

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Following his latest novel, The Seventh Son, best-selling author Sebastian Faulks will be debating genetic mutation and what it is to be human with Dr Adam Rutherford & Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes at this year's festival.

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Our #Byzanzforschung IMAFO invites you to the international conference: Personal Stories from the Literary Landscapes of the Agitated (Post-)Byzantine World (13th to 16th c.): Intercultural Perspectives, April 17–19, Vienna:
oeaw.ac.at/imafo/veransta… FWF

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Oops I did it again 🤭

#TotalSolarEclipse

I love these gems that Bloomsbury Books UK snip out of my #EarthTransformed book - you'll have to get a copy to see more about the bullwhip effect, about supply-chain failure, and how connectivity has led to hyper-vulnerabitliy in global history (in the past, present & future!)

Some great answers here. Never knew Ali Ansari was a Flashman fan !

Pablo Picasso died on this day in 1973. For more, check out the four episodes we made about him on our podcast #Legacy podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pic…

Absolutely fascinating.... Via Stetson

What’s behind India’s support for Manila in the South China Sea dispute? sc.mp/8awiw?utm_sour… via @scmpnews

The most interesting part of the press conference is in the last couple minutes where Yellen highlighted China's high saving rate of 'close to 45%' and suggested Chinese gov to unleash demand-side stimulus.

Brad Setser Luke Gromen tphuang Michael Pettis Lei Gong Glenn

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