Planet Business: Mattel’s red face, Donald Trump’s wild appointments and the concept of a Minister for Loneliness
Cop29 participants from Kenya photograph one another in front of a billboard about climate finance on the opening day of the climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.
But as for the ongoing business of negotiating a deal in which wealthier nations finance a green-energy transition in poorer ones for the benefit of us all, the smart people in the room are not, unfortunately, the most powerful ones. Humanity is already paying the price. Keep 1.5 degrees within reach? According to the Climate Action Tracker project, the planet’s temperature is still very much on track to rise 2.7 degrees by 2100.
An Irish minister for loneliness would not be the first. In the UK, the Conservatives had four such ministers from 2018 until the party left power this year, while in Japan, the title was first introduced in 2021 and is currently held by the same person with responsibility for measures to address Japan’s declining birth rate.From his “winter White House” in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Donald Trump has been busy assembling his team of Great American Patriots to run the US after January 20th.
2. Susie Wiles: The canny co-chair of Trump’s presidential campaign will become the first female White House chief of staff. History might have unfolded very differently had Wiles, a veteran of Florida politics, not fallen out with her former boss, Republican governor Ron DeSantis.
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