Prospects for addressing climate change, food system transformation, and other issues.

Photo: Pixabay/Kanenori  To limit the impacts of climate change, we will need to cut back drastically on global emissions of CO2. Yet that alone won’t be enough. We’ll also need to remove vast quantities of carbon from the atmosphere, stresses an international team of scientists in a new report. “To […]

On 3 November 2022, Governor Wolf signed House Bill 2057 into law as Act 122. The act made numerous amendments to Title 15 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, known as the “Associations Code” (the Title 15 Update).1 The Title 15 Update went into effect on 2 January 2023,2 with certain key provisions […]

Singapore: K&L Gates Straits Law LLC, the Singapore office of K&L Gates, welcomes Joan Lim-Casanova as a partner in the litigation and dispute resolution practice. She joins the firm’s Singapore office from Cavenagh Law LLP, where she provided litigation representation in a Formal Law Alliance with Clifford Chance. Lim-Casanova has […]

Countries: Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic Sources: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Food Programme The analysis predicts the situation will deteriorate between January and April, with 2.26 million people – 1.46 million residents and 800,000 refugees – expected to be in “crisis” phase or worse.

It’s 23 hours a day in a cell without natural light and just one to walk around in a 7×4-metre courtyard. For Pablo González, an independent Spanish-Russian journalist, it’s been almost a year spent in solitary confinement in Poland. González was arrested on the night of February 27th in Przemysl, […]

As noted in our prior blog post, on 29 December 2022, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (H.R. 2617). Among the routine federal funding provisions, the bill included a holiday surprise “policy rider” for qualifying mergers and acquisitions brokers (M&A brokers) in Division AA, Title […]