UN envoy lays out strategy for financing climate battle
Former governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, who is the U.N.s special envoy for climate change, laid out a strategy for financing efforts to cut carbon emissions, on Monday Nov. 9, 2020, calling on companies to be more transparent about their efforts. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, FILE)LONDON โ The U.N.โs special envoy for climate change on Monday laid out a strategy for financing efforts to cut carbon emissions, calling on companies to be more transparent about their efforts and the impact rising temperatures will have on their operations. He said Monday that companies need to go further by disclosing the risks climate change poses to their businesses and their plans for the future. Investors such as banks, insurance companies and investment funds should also disclose how their choices are aligned with climate goals, he said. โClimate change is a global challenge.
Codebreaker Alan Turing to be face of new British banknote
Getty ImagesLONDON - Codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing has been chosen as the face of Britain's new 50 pound note, the Bank of England announced Monday. Governor Mark Carney said Turing, who did ground-breaking work on computers and artificial intelligence, was "a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand." During World War II Turing worked at the secret Bletchley Park code-breaking center, where he helped crack Nazi Germany's secret codes by creating the "Turing bombe," a forerunner of modern computers. Turing received a posthumous apology from the British government in 2009, and a royal pardon in 2013. The redesigned 10 pound and 20 pound notes feature author Jane Austen and artist J.M.W.