Of Interest/ESG News
you are currently viewing::'Renewables are renewing economies', UN chief tells top climate forumMarch 26, 2025-2025 marks a milestone: the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement and the deadline for countries to submit their updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), designed to keep the global goal alive of limiting temperature rise to 1.5℃C above pre-industrial levels. Addressing the 16th Petersberg Climate Dialogue (PCD) in Berlin-the first official gathering on climate since last year's COP29 summit in Baku-the UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a strong call for decisive climate action. He said the year had begun against a backdrop of geopolitical instability and widespread cuts to overseas aid budgets. Source: news.un.org |
How DeepSeek has changed artificial intelligence and what it means for Europe
March 20, 2025--By mid-2024, artificial intelligence large language models (LLMs) were running into diminishing returns to scale in training data and computational capacity. LLM training began to shift away from costly pre-training to cheaper fine-tuning and allowing LLMs to 'reason' for longer before replying to questions.
IMF-Driving Change: Women-Led Economics
March 10, 2025-Summary
The developing world's vibrant research in the face of limited resources offers valuable global insights
For too long, Western institutions have shaped empirical research and policy recommendations. Authors based in developing economies have a far too small footprint in top economics journals.
