The United Arab Emirates is among the world’s largest oil producers. It is also the positioning of this yr’s UN COP28 local weather summit, which kicks off later this week in Dubai. 

It is a controversial host, however the fact is that there’s huge potential for oil and fuel firms to assist deal with local weather change, each by cleansing up their operations and by investing their appreciable wealth and experience into new applied sciences.

The issue is that these firms even have a vested curiosity in preserving the established order. In the event that they need to be a part of a net-zero future, one thing might want to change—and shortly. Learn the total story.

—Casey Crownhart

How reproductive expertise can reverse inhabitants decline

Delivery charges have been plummeting in rich international locations, nicely under the “substitute” fee. Even in China, a dramatic downturn within the variety of infants has officers scrambling, as its inhabitants progress turns damaging.

So, what’s behind the infant bust and might new reproductive expertise reverse the development? MIT Expertise Overview is internet hosting a subscriber-only Roundtables dialogue on how improvements from the lab might have an effect on the way forward for households at 11am ET this morning, that includes Antonio Regalado, our biotechnology editor, and entrepreneur Martín Varsavsky, founding father of fertility clinic Prelude Fertility. Don’t miss out—ensure you register now.

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