#bloomberg

[silvianap]

An Optimist's Guide to the Planet

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau travels the globe to search for people across the globe who are helping drive humanity toward a brighter, more sustainable future. Docuseries produced by Bloomberg, here you can find all the 6 episodes:

Episode 1: Dusk or Dawn (YouTube) (Bloomberg)

Episode 2: Shelter (YouTube) (Bloomberg)

Episode 3: Regenerate (YouTube) (Bloomberg)

Episode 4: Nourish (YouTube) (Bloomberg)

Episode 5: Move (YouTube) (Bloomberg)

Episode 6: Transform (YouTube) (Bloomberg)

-> twitter post

#nikolaj coster waldau #nikolaj coster-waldau #nikolajcw #ncw #an optimist's guide to the planet #bloomberg #docuseries #Ill Kippers #AOGTTP #ALL THE EPISODES HERE #youtube #Save this post as a memorandum #watch this

[siryouarebeingmocked]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/michael-bloombergs-outrageous-response-to-the-texas-church-shooting-is-an-insult-to-hero-jack-wilson

Well, this shooting would have played out much, much worse in that hypothetical scenario. The killer, of course, doesn’t care what law Bloomberg and his pals pass, so he would have stormed in with a gun regardless. But Wilson wouldn’t have been armed. 

Assuming the police are minutes away, and considering that the gunman shot two people in just a few seconds before being taken down, it’s likely that several dozen people would have been shot before police arrived.

This is the outcome Bloomberg basically just said he would prefer. 

And by saying that only police should have guns, Bloomberg is no longer hiding behind calls for so-called universal background checks or assault weapon bans — he’s openly calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. If we needed another reminder why we should never elect this wannabe tyrant as our president, well, he just handed us one.

Reminder that both this shooting and Sutherland Springs were stopped by the proverbial “good guy with a gun”. The Sutherland shooter even owned his gun illegally, because the government screwed up his discharge paperwork.

#stupid #gun control #texas #michael bloomberg #bloomberg

[fluttersharpi]

My wife’s family has recently started using my height as a scale, as I’m the tallest pony in the family. For demonstration, I have made this chart.

#fluttershy #fluttersharpi #mlp #mlp fim #my little pony #angel bunny #bloomberg #meme

[mapsontheweb]

Busiest ports in the US, signaling a continued eastward shift in activity.

#maps #bloomberg #us #ports

[mostlysignssomeportents]

No notes, Today In Tabs. Perfect.

At a relatively youthful 81, the original B-unit Michael Bloomberg is also making succession plans, reports Remy Tumin. The plan is: on his death, Bloomberg L.P. will go to his charity which will be forced by tax laws to sell it to Elon Musk, who will fire everyone and replace all the numbers in the terminal data with either 69 or 420, turning history’s only truly profitable media company into a cash bonfire within 6 months.

-Rusty Foster

#bloomberg #funny #rusty foster #today in tabs

[tswiftupdatess]

🚨 Taylor Swift is officially a BILLIONAIRE, Bloomberg reports.

source

#taylor swift #swifties #taylorswift #taylor's version #1989 tv #the eras tour #bloomberg

[julunis14]

who'd like to be a tree?

#julunis14 #mlp #mlp fim #ponies #pony #sfw #drawing #honses #my little honses #applejack #bloomberg #tree #sleeping #fluttershy #fluttershy is a tree

[baptistevirot]

Illustration for Bloomberg, 2021

#bloomberg #businessweek #baptistevirot #virot #illustration #editorialillustration

[royalpain16]

THE SECOND ANNUAL SUMMIT WILL UNVEIL THE FIFTEEN 2023 EARTHSHOT PRIZE FINALISTS WHO ARE TRAILBLAZING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS TO REPAIR OUR PLANET BY 2030

The Earthshot Prize and Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced they will co-host the second Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit on September 19, 2023, in New York City with the founder of The Earthshot Prize, Prince William, expected to attend.

Held during New York Climate Week and the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly, the Summit will convene previous Earthshot Prize Winners and Finalists with policymakers, global business leaders, philanthropists, and climate activists to scale their innovative solutions.

At the Summit, The Earthshot Prize will reveal this year’s 15 Finalists and introduce their groundbreaking climate and environmental solutions to repair our planet this decade on one of the biggest international stages.

To help drive meaningful change, and accelerate the collaborations and investments needed to scale those solutions, the Summit will connect the new and previous Earthshot Prize Finalists and Winners with forward-thinking business leaders, philanthropists, and governments already working to regenerate the planet. September’s Summit begins the countdown to The Earthshot Prize’s third annual Awards ceremony in Singapore, where, on November 7, 2023, five of the 15 Finalists will be awarded a catalytic £1 million to scale their cutting-edge solutions.

Alongside Prince William, Michael R. Bloomberg, Global Advisor to the Winners of The Earthshot Prize, will address the assembled guests. Other featured speakers will include policymakers, business leaders, climate innovators, and previous Earthshot Prize Winners and Finalists. The full agenda will be announced in due course

Founded by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2020, The Earthshot Prize is a global environmental prize to discover, accelerate, and scale ground-breaking solutions that can help put the world firmly on a trajectory toward a stable climate where communities, oceans, and biodiversity thrive in harmony by 2030.

Inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s Moonshot, which united millions of people around the goal of reaching the moon, The Earthshot Prize recognizes Finalists and Winners across five challenges, or ‘Earthshots’: Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste-free World, and Fix our Climate. The Prize aims to turn the current pessimism surrounding environmental issues into optimism and will discover 50 winners over 10 years with the power to repair the planet

The inaugural 2021 Earthshot Prize Finalists have already driven incredible impact with more than 1.5 million people benefiting directly from their solutions. Over 7,000 hectares of land and almost 2.1 million hectares of ocean have been protected or restored, while over 35,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions have been reduced, avoided, or sequestered. The 2022 Finalists, announced this past autumn, are well on their way to creating similar impact.

To help accelerate the work of the inaugural Finalists at last year’s Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit, Bloomberg Philanthropies committed more than $20 million through direct grants, co-funding, and other efforts to support the success of the inaugural Finalists and Winners of The Earthshot Prize 2021, including:

Scaling Takachar’s technology, which reduces smoke emissions from agricultural waste by up to 98%, through a pilot program in villages in the state of Punjab and Haryana, India.

Supercharging Pristine Seas’ 30×30 ocean protected goal through funding major ocean expeditions, helping establish more marine protected areas, and enhancing diplomacy and advocacy efforts. Pristine Seas has already helped establish 26 marine reserves worldwide, across an area over twice the size of India.

Scaling Coral Vita’s research capabilities to identify new restoration sites and monitor both restoration progress and local marine health after installation. Coral Vita’s cutting-edge methods to grow coral up to 50 times faster than nature can help replant our oceans and give new life to dying ecosystems.

Expanding the capacity of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs and Blue Map App to scale its data, research, and reporting capabilities.

Convening at least ten North American and European cities in partnership with C40 and NRDC to accelerate efforts to address food waste and food insecurity by sharing best practices from and helping to scale the City of Milan’s Local Food Waste Hub initiative, which currently provides about 260,000 meals to those most in need, to other cities.

As a mayor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Michael R. Bloomberg has long been a global leader in the fight against climate change. He has committed more than $1 billion to efforts across the world to mobilize cities and local leaders to reduce emissions, improve air quality, advance the global transition to clean energy, protect and preserve ocean ecosystems, and help unlock billions of dollars in sustainable finance.

Bloomberg helps lead a number of efforts including the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, America Is All In Coalition, Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, Climate Finance Leaders Initiative, and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.

“To effectively tackle the climate crisis, we need to invest in innovative solutions and new ideas that can accelerate global progress and help repair the planet. This year’s Earthshot Prize Finalists are great examples of the kind of bold action and creative thinking we need, and our team is looking forward to working with Prince William to support them as they expand their ambitions.”

Michael R. Bloomberg, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions, Founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, and 108th Mayor of New York City

“The Earthshot Prize scours the world to find entrepreneurs and innovators who exemplify the power of human ingenuity to address our most significant climate and environmental challenges. Our next class of Finalists are on the cutting-edge of some of the most exciting ideas and technologies, and with the support of our Global Alliance Partners and the global community gathering at the UN General Assembly, they have the potential to transform communities around the world for the better. By spotlighting the incredible work of our 2023 Finalists at the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit, we hope to inspire a wave of positive change and unlock a more sustainable and resilient future.”

Hannah Jones, The Earthshot Prize CEO

#earthshot 23 #prince william #Bloomberg #Singapore #united nations #2023

[allemantheias]

We could have had a game about Alejandro, Rudy and Valeria??????

Source Bloomberg. Screen from Sledgehammer's reply on facebook. Link to the X/Twitter post of CharlieIntel.

For the first few months of the project, which was codenamed Jupiter, the story was conceived as a smaller-scale Modern Warfare spinoff set in Mexico that would be more achievable on a short timeline than the usual globe-trotting escapades of a full new campaign. But in the summer of last year, Activision executives rebooted that story, and told the developers that instead they would be making a direct sequel to Modern Warfare II centering on the villain Vladimir Makarov and featuring missions all across the world. The reboot ate into the schedule and forced the developers to complete the new campaign in roughly 16 months — the shortest development time for a new Call of Duty game in years.

Maybe............ we get it next year? That would be so amazing. I need more VAleRudy background story. I NEED an answer to the question if Alejandro and Valeria dated before she betrayed them.

#sledgehammer #bloomberg #call of duty #cod #cod mwiii #alejandro vargas #rodolfo parra #valeria garza

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

GOP Presidential Hopeful Ramaswamy Sued Over Strive’s Practices | Bloomberg

In separate lawsuits, two former employees at the candidate’s Strive Asset Management claim that the anti-ESG investment firm pressured them to violate securities laws.

Vivek Ramaswamy has been rising in presidential polls partly on the strength of his business accomplishments. Before he started running for the Republican nomination, where polling averages now put him in third place behind Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, Ramaswamy founded and ran a drug development company, Roivant, which he took public in 2021. Then he started an asset management firm, Strive, presenting it as a conservative answer to the ESG movement’s focus on investments’ environmental, social and governance impacts. Strive’s motto, meant as a contrast to ESG, is “invest in excellence.”

But two former employees have filed lawsuits in recent months against the investment firm as well as Ramaswamy and his co-founder Anson Frericks that suggest practices at the company were something less than that. They accuse Ramaswamy and Frericks of aggressively pushing employees to violate securities law and of mistreating staff. They also suggest that the company has struggled to meet lofty growth goals for its “anti-ESG” investments.

Christopher Lenzo, a lawyer for plaintiff Joyce Rosely, said the two suits raised questions about Ramaswamy’s seriousness as an asset manager. Strive “was founded, in retrospect, largely as a PR mechanism for the presidential campaign of Ramaswamy,” he said. “Not a lot of thought was given to running it as an investment firm.”

Neither lawsuit has been previously reported. Ramaswamy’s track record will be in focus during next week’s presidential debate, when DeSantis allies have signaled that he plans to concentrate attacks on Ramaswamy. “Strive intends to vigorously defend itself,” the company said in a statement. “Beyond that, it is our policy not to comment on active litigation.” Tricia McLaughlin, Ramaswamy’s communications director, didn’t comment on the lawsuit. She noted that Ramaswamy, who served as Strive’s executive chairman until earlier this year, left Strive when he decided to run for president. “Strive is completely separate from Vivek and his campaign,” she said.

The first suit, filed in Kansas by a regional sales chief who was dismissed as part of a reorganization in March, also says Ramaswamy misrepresented the company’s finances to employees and investors, exaggerating its growth when pitching venture capitalists and recruiting staff. The former employee, John Phillips, claims he was induced to leave a job at JPMorgan that would have paid him more than $1 million in 2022, based on promises made by Ramaswamy and others that Strive was well financed and that Ramaswamy was dedicated to the company.

In reality, according to the suit, Strive was “undercapitalized,” and Ramaswamy was planning a presidential bid. The suit was filed in June, three months after Phillips claims he was fired by Strive without cause. Strive has filed a motion to dismiss the case.

In the second suit, filed Aug. 8 in a Union County, New Jersey, court, Rosely claims she was fired as co-head of institutional sales in retaliation for raising concerns about sexual harassment at the firm and violations of securities laws. She contends she saw a Strive executive make aggressive sexual advances toward a more junior staffer.

When Rosely, a veteran of State Street and Goldman Sachs, complained to Frericks, Strive’s president, he told Rosely it was “none of his business,” according to her complaint. At the time, Frericks, a former beer distribution executive who went to high school with Ramaswamy, held the company’s most senior position.

Like Phillips, Rosely claims that Ramaswamy and Frericks pressured her to violate securities laws. She says she was asked to use sales materials that improperly promised future returns and urged to allow employees who were not yet registered to sell securities to pitch clients. Rosely also claims she complained about Ramaswamy’s social media posts, which she believed constituted unlawful securities sales.

Both Phillips and Roseley were fired in March, alongside another executive who Rosely says was also complaining about the securities law violations. She claims that Strive told her the firing was part of a reorganization but also that everyone who was dismissed as part of the reorganization was over 40 years old. Her suit alleges that she was the victim of age discrimination, as well as retaliation for raising concerns about harassment and securities law violations.

In April, a month after the dismissals, Matt Cole, Strive’s chief investment officer, was named chief executive officer. In a June memo, Cole acknowledged the departures of “underperforming members of the distribution team.” He also signaled that Strive, which manages exchange traded funds (or ETFs) with about $1 billion in total assets as of Aug. 17, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, would tone down its political rhetoric and focus on promoting “shareholder capitalism” instead of criticizing ESG. The memo, first reported by Semafor, said that growth in the firm’s funds had slowed in 2023 in part because investors had seen the firm as “political over investment oriented.” The memo said growth had resumed and would accelerate in a “‘hockey stick’ fashion” starting in 2025.

#us politics #news #bloomberg #Vivek Ramaswamy #republicans #conservatives #2023 #2024 elections #Roivant #Anson Frericks #mistreatment of staff #violations of securities laws #strive #exchange traded funds #ESG movement #Environmental Social & Corporate Governance

[silvianap]

✨ NEW CONTENTS (Poster + pics) on "An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet" with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau 🌍

The first episode of the new docu-series is coming on Bloomberg (totally free to watch!) on February 8th! 📆

More pics & info: [x]

Twitter thread: [x]

#nikolaj coster waldau #nikolajcw #ncw #twitter thread #an optimist's guide to the planet #Ill Kippers #docuseries #bloomberg #Bloomberg tv #new contents #next february #February 8th #im so excited

[thekelceswiftera]

According to Bloomberg, @taylorswift has entered her Billionaire Era.

How it stacked up:

Catalogue: $400M - Her estimated value of her music she released since 2019.

Concerts: $370M - Tickets and merchandise sales.

Streams: $120M - From Spotify, YouTube Music and other streaming platforms.

Properties/Homes: $110M - Current value of five properties she owns.

Records: $80M - From royalties she received through music sales.

She did this by herself and worked so hard for it.

#taylor swift #swifties #the eras tour #billionaire #money #Bloomberg

[anniesakkab]

Shot for #Bloomberg for their #Hot #Cities #feature about# mini #forests using the #Miyawaki method to plant native trees. #Deema #Assaf is the architect behind #Tayyun Research Studio, a project started by Deema and #Nochi Motoharu about five years ago. — Link to the Bloomberg Story https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-amman-jordan-extreme-heat/ —

www.anniesakkab.com

#bloomberg #news #HotCities #Jordan #MiyawakiForest #MiniForests #photography #street #photojournalism #heat #amman

[mapsontheweb]

China’s military announces a new exercise “near Taiwan” on Monday, signaling that activity around the island was continuing past a series of drills announced immediately in the wake of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit.

Full article >>

#maps #twittersourced #china #military exercise #bloomberg

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

There was a time in which a lot of people didn't think climate change was real or serious or required change to meet the challenge and financing the change. That time is over, and that's good news--and if you think that "nobody cares" it's a reminder that most people do, and you're not alone. (Blaming the public or portraying human nature itself as the problem, while often done by people who fancy themselves radical, avoids addressing the real roadblocks, the elite minority with a lot of power.)

Mark Gongloff at Bloomberg writes: The first step in solving a problem is recognizing you have one. And indeed, most Americans say they know we’re facing a monumental climate threat. They just need to be convinced that other people tend to feel exactly the same way and that they have the power to do something about it.

With every disaster-filled year, it becomes easier to convince people that the climate is turning against them. As we speak, tens of millions of Americans from Texas to Florida are suffering under relentless record heat and humidity. After years of being wracked by climate-fueled disasters from heat waves to hurricanes, solid majorities of voters in even reliably conservative Texas and Florida believe climate change is real and requires more action, according to recent polls.

The results are consistent with public opinion across the US, including in states that haven’t been quite as besieged by catastrophe. In the relatively cool swing state of Michigan, for example, a poll this spring by advocacy group Climate Power found that nearly two-thirds of registered voters agree that climate change is real and that something should be done about it.

Recent events presumably reinforced those views. In the past few days, Michigan and neighboring states have been choking on smoke from record-smashing wildfires in Canada. The air quality in Detroit as of this writing is “very unhealthy,” according to the EPA.

Individual heat waves and wildfires aren’t necessarily caused by climate change, but a warming planet makes them more likely and more intense. These repercussions will only get worse as we burn more fossil fuels and spew more carbon into the atmosphere.

The Sunbelt states most at risk of climate catastrophe have also been the country’s fastest-growing areas for the past several years. People have come seeking jobs, affordable lifestyles or maybe just an end to shoveling snow and having to talk to Democrats. Now natural disasters are making their lives more difficult and less affordable. Merely insuring a house in these states has become a challenge.And because these voices are usually the loudest ones on TV and social media, it’s easy for everyone else to feel marginalized or ridiculous for worrying about climate change. A study last year found that, while at least 66% of Americans (similar to shares in Texas, Florida and Michigan) want to see more action to fight climate change, those same Americans believe support for such policies is actually closer to 40%. If you’re a Texan worried about climate change, then there’s a good chance your neighbor is, too, and you just don’t know it.

Despite these glaring issues, leaders in many of these states are still pushing fossil fuels and rejecting stronger efforts to slow emissions and fight further warming, their rhetoric dripping with denialism. In perhaps the most extreme example, politicians in Texas seem determined to end its status as a national leader in renewable energy — even as solar energy has helped carry the state through its latest heat wave without significant blackouts (knock on mesquite).

Maybe if more people understood they weren’t alone, they could find their voice to push for more change. Measures such as last year’s Inflation Reduction Act are a good start, but only that. This country still needs a faster exit plan for transitioning from fossil fuels to cleaner energy and the money to make it happen. Political will and consumer demand together can provide the impetus for such big, scary steps, whether in red states or blue ones. There’s strength in numbers.

[Rebecca Solnit]

#Rebecca Solnit #climate change #climate #global warming #climate emergency #article #Bloomberg #Mark Gongloff