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2020 was the year of the ‘net zero by 2050’ commitment. Will 2021 be the year we get the details?

The coronavirus pandemic overshadowed nearly everything in 2020, but alongside the pyrotechnics of an extraordinary U.S. election and the resurgence of social justice activism, at least one more big-picture issue came to the fore: this was the year the “net zero by 2050” climate commitment went mainstream. The promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions as […]

Utilizing pandemic recovery Capital, Europe Proceeds to build up its semiconductor Business

Europe currently has a large semiconductor sector with special strengths in areas like smartcards and detectors, however it’s still modest compared with people from the U.S., South Korea and Taiwan–European businesses hold only a tenth of the $530 billion worldwide semiconductor industry. Thus, in one single joint announcement issued Mondaythat the EU states said they’d […]

Pfizer BioNTech vaccine may be effective against fast-spreading COVID-19 variants, study says

The vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE may offer some protection against a mutation in the new fast-spreading variants of the coronavirus that have emerged from the U.K. and South Africa, according to a recent study. The study, by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch and supported by Pfizer and BioNTech, showed […]