.@Lagarde talked about director-general of the World Trade Organization @NOIweala, whom she has known since 2005, witnessing her tireless work as a seasoned negotiator and crisis manager #FTwomen2021ft.com/womenof2021
Jane Fraser of Citigroup has written about General Motors CEO @mtbarra, who since 2014 has ‘led GM through tremendous challenges and change and is now determined to put the automaker back on top’ #FTwomen2021ft.com/womenof2021
Minouche Shafik has profiled @GitaGopinath, whose tenure as chief economist at the IMF has been dominated by ‘the Great Lockdown’, a term she coined to describe the worst recession the world economy has faced since the Great Depression #FTWomen2021ft.com/womenof2021
.@FrancesHaugen’s ‘courageous’ gift to the world ‘has been an ice-cold shower of incontestable facts smuggled from the heart of the Facebook empire, shining a light on the destructive powers of Mark Zuckerberg’, says @shoshanazuboff#FTWomenof2021ft.com/womenof2021
Today’s Big Tech firms think they’re too big to be held accountable, but Lina Khan is proving them wrong, says @SenWarren of the Federal Trade Commission chair #FTWomen2021ft.com/womenof2021
.@gilliantett admires Luiza Trajano, one of Brazil’s most remarkable businesswomen and social leaders – she began working aged 17 in the family store and built the business into one of Latin America’s retail powerhouses #FTWomen2021ft.com/womenof2021
.@BillieJeanKing has called tennis champion Naomi Osaka ‘one of the most successful businesswomen in sports, an advocate for racial justice and she transcends sports — most recently by using her platform to prioritise health and wellbeing’ #FTWomen2021ft.com/womenof2021
Unlike so many of the world’s political and business leaders who self-censor at the first hint of displeasure from Beijing, @iingwen does not buckle in the face of intimidation, says @TheCarrieGracie about Taiwan president Tsai Ing-Wen #FTWomen2021ft.com/womenof2021
Sotooda Forotan, 15, protested against the Taliban’s actions and demanded schools reopen for girls in Herat, Afghanistan. Her fearlessness and strength pushed Taliban leaders there to allow girls to return to school, writes @Malala#FTWomen2021ft.com/womenof2021
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The chief executive of Moderna, Stéphane Bancel, has predicted that existing vaccines will be much less effective at tackling Omicron than earlier strains of coronavirus.
It will take months before pharmaceutical companies can manufacture new variant-specific jabs at scale, warns Moderna’s chief executive ft.com/content/27def1…
Stéphane Bancel said scientists were worried because 32 of the 50 mutations in the Omicron variant are on the spike protein, which current vaccines focus on to boost the human body’s immune system to combat Covid ft.com/content/27def1…
Got questions about the new Omicron variant? Here’s everything we know about it so far ft.com/content/42c5ff…
🦠 The coronavirus variant Omicron emerged in southern Africa.
🦠 It has sparked global alarm because of its unprecedented series of genetic mutations.
🦠 These changes could make it more transmissible. ft.com/content/42c5ff…
Why is Omicron causing such alarm?
One concern is the speed at which the variant is spreading. Daily cases have more than tripled in South Africa since Tuesday, with 2,828 cases recorded on Friday ft.com/content/42c5ff…
As #COP26 continues, @ftmag meets those working on the ground where climate change has reached an emergency point.
@simonmundy recalls the stories he learnt on his two-year, 26-country journey across the frontlines of the climate crisis ft.com/content/e3bfb9…
During Copenhagen’s COP15 in 2009, the Maldives' then-president Mohamed Nasheed chaired an underwater cabinet meeting. He wanted to show the world the effects rising sea levels would have on his 1,000-plus island country if we fail to cut carbon emissions ft.com/content/e3bfb9…
When Mundy met Nasheed in 2019, the president was pessimistic. After COP15 talks collapsed, he started doubting the impact of the UN’s climate summit. The COP approach of nearly 200 countries reaching unanimous consensus is a recipe for failure, he said ft.com/content/e3bfb9…
In case you missed it, these were our most-read opinion pieces over the past year:
‘What caused a boat to get stuck in the Suez Canal? Perhaps it was the wind. But in hydrodynamics, size matters,’ wrote Brendan Greeley (Free to read) on.ft.com/2ZTArK2
‘If there’s a lesson to be learnt from Israel today, it is this: corona, in fact, is not over. This summer was just an intermission. Next comes winter,’ Mehul Srivastava wrote in one of our most-read opinion pieces this year (free to read) ft.com/content/c21e20…
Free to read: London's Sky Pool experiment is obscene, rubbing luxury in the faces of hard-working people in a deprived neighbourhood, opines the FT's Edwin Heathcote in one of our most-read opinion pieces of the year ft.com/content/02b0a9…
Up to a third of the projected global population of 9bn could be exposed to temperatures on a par with the hottest parts of the Sahara, according to research by scientists from China, US and Europe on.ft.com/3BEyaiC
Under the most extreme scenario, the southern US states would become much hotter, particularly those that border the Gulf of Mexico.
Central America would bear the brunt of the increase, with up to 20m people living in mean annual temperatures of 29C on.ft.com/3BEyaiC
Big regions of Canada and Alaska would experience warmer conditions by 2070.
These areas are now largely uninhabited and projected to remain that way without factoring in migration on.ft.com/3BEyaiC
COP26, the climate summit in Glasgow, is rapidly approaching.
We looked at the top 5 countries, emitting the most emissions and the pledges they’re bringing to the world stage: on.ft.com/3Bpsf0T
🇨🇳 China
🇺🇸 US
🇮🇳 India
🇷🇺 Russia
🇮🇩 Indonesia
China is the world’s biggest annual emitter, responsible for 23.9% (11.7bn tonnes) of annual CO2 equivalent.
In September 2020 it announced an intention ‘to achieve the peaking of carbon-dioxide emissions around 2030’ and to be carbon neutral by 2060 on.ft.com/3Bpsf0T
The US is the second-biggest emitter, and is responsible for 11.8% (5.8bn tonnes) of the world’s annual CO2e.
Under President Joe Biden, America has ambitiously committed to cut net greenhouse gas emissions by 50-53% below 2005 levels by 2030 on.ft.com/3Bpsf0T