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KUWAIT: Reaffirming its position as a leading institution in corporate sustainability, Boursa Kuwait’s 2023 Sustainability Report has been recognized as the Best Sustainability and ESG Report at the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) Awards. Held annually to celebrate excellence in investor relations across the Middle East, this year’s awards ceremony, which was organized in Abu Dhabi on December 11-12 in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange, gathered over 800 capital market professionals, including representatives from 150 issuers in the GCC and wider region, 33 stock exchanges and regulators, and more than 150 buy and sell-side participants from local and international capital markets. This prestigious accolade highlights Boursa Kuwait’s commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles, showcasing its leadership in promoting sustainability within the Kuwaiti capital market. The 2023 Sustainability Report reflects the company’s dedication and continued efforts to improve transparency and accountability as well as create long-term value for stakeholders. As a model issuer, Boursa Kuwait continues to drive the sustainable growth and economic development of Kuwait following the best-in-class standards and practices worldwide. Previously, the company’s 2021 Annual Report was awarded with a second-place finish for Best Annual Report – Print Category – Middle East while its 2023 Annual Report placed third in the Best Annual Report – Print Category – Middle East categories. Boursa Kuwait’s 2023 Sustainability Report, its third, shed light on the Kuwaiti stock exchange’s corporate sustainability strategy and initiatives in 2023 and assessed the company’s non-financial performance and progress from January 1 to December 31, 2023. Developed in-house, the report is aligned with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards: Core Option, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Security and Commodity Exchanges guidelines, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as Boursa Kuwait’s ESG Reporting Guide to ensure transparency and adherence to internationally recognized standards. Some of the milestones outlined in the report include the company’s corporate social responsibility initiatives and partnerships with esteemed and established local and international organizations like the United Nations, the Middle East Investor Relations Association, the CFA Institute and CFA Society as well as the Kuwait Red Crescent Society and the Kuwait Association for the Care of Children in Hospital (KACCH). The report also showcased the company’s internal efforts to become a more socially responsible institution, including its enhanced governance practices and initiatives to reduce its environmental footprint. Boursa Kuwait and the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and its Kuwait branch have a close strategic partnership. Since 2017, the exchange has supported the association’s initiatives to develop the investor relations sector as part of its Corporate Sustainability strategy, which seeks to raise financial awareness and enhance the role of investor relations among issuers in the Kuwaiti capital market.Player 456 Seeks Revenge in SQUID GAME Season Two Trailer
Portuguese $$ $$ The main feeling you get when having dinner in the lush backyard of Lunas, Jose and Basia Silva’s contemporary Portuguese restaurant on a corner in Petersham, is the bonhomie of sharing food like a family. “My dream is to create what it’s like when I go back to Portugal to my aunty’s backyard,” Jose Silva says. “There are vines all around and you sit there in the courtyard just eating nice food and enjoying each other’s company. “When a big roast is made or a big seafood stew, the pot goes in the middle of the table and everyone serves themselves. It’s what I grew up with.” This is one reason why Lunas’ tables, set in an alfresco courtyard or inside between wide windows, forest green walls and a corrugated metal-fronted counter, are bigger than those in most restaurants. “When I eat, I like to have a few dishes on the table at the same time,” Silva says. “The idea is to share the food, get a couple of dishes, bread, olives, some drinks, and you all pick at it. You can’t do that with small tables.” Test this theory by ordering several dishes, hopefully Alto olives from Crookwell, marinated with rosemary and lemon and orange zest, “Grandma’s” bread (fluffy and soft due to 80 per cent water content), octopus rice, smoked bacalhau (dried, salted cod) pâte with poppy seed lavosh, ling and clam cataplana and a side of garlicky pan-charred kale cooked with brown butter and lager. Even with the paraphernalia of cutlery, napkins, drinking glasses and water bottle, there is still enough room amid the serving dishes and plates on the table for any diner to complete a spirited card game or produce an atlas to read between courses. You can do this inside, in the handsome dining space designed by Basia Silva. But, as summer creeps into the evenings, the Silvas’ rejuvenated backyard area, a covered courtyard edged by grass, olive trees, native shrubs, herb bushes and curling vines, is the place to be. Few things are as lovely as eating one of Lunas’ signature dishes – specifically the piri piri spatchcock with tangy red cabbage, red onion and preserved lemon, or the roasted sugarloaf cabbage, served with cannellini beans and cavolo neroas – as cicadas buzz high in the surrounding gum trees at dusk. Tonight, as nearby diners receive their spectacular flambe chourico – a dish of three-week-aged La Boqueria cured sausage is set alight on arrival – we sweep crunchy paperbark-like lavosh through creamy, uniquely umami smoked bacalhau pâte. Then, the lush octopus rice, with fat Fremantle octopus and fragrant caldeirada (fish stew) and the marvellous ling and clam cataplana, served in its clam-shell-like copper pressure cooker. Dessert is shared pudim de leite, its silkiness coming from condensed milk, beneath an orangey caramel deglazed with port, and bolo de bolacha, or biscuit cake, a dish Silva describes as a dish your mother or aunt would make. “Every Portuguese birthday party will have one,” he says. “It’s like a Portuguese tiramisu. Amazing with coffee, too.” Lunas has good strong coffee, and tea, however late you dine. There are also six Portuguese wines amid Australian and Italian varieties, and five cocktails including a ruby port Portuguese negroni and a cachaca Collins made with Portuguese soft drink passionfruit Sumol. Everything is also very well priced. Discussing any dish with Silva, whose family members in Australia and Portugal include professional chefs and food-loving relatives, leads to him sharing the recipe. He relishes the infinite ways to cook bacalhau, the beauty of a ham and cheese toastie and the opportunity to share his version of caldo verde, a potato, kale and chorizo soup with origins in northern Portugal, his home territory. “That’s the whole idea here,” he says. “I don’t hold back with recipes. I love sharing them.” Silva, who grew up in Stanmore and also runs custard tart temple Sweet Belem and Fich restaurant down the road with Basia, wants everyone to experience the delights of Portuguese cooking. “I think it is getting more acknowledgement for what it is,” he says. “People are travelling more to Portugal, they’re starting to see what Portuguese food is about. “It’s beautiful ingredients, it’s hearty, it’s family. And, it’s all about sharing.” The low-down Vibe: Contemporary Portuguese cafe-restaurant with al fresco dining and high quality dishes and service Cost: $100, plus drinks (for two)
A Zionist group claims to be using facial recognition software to create a list of international students attending pro-Palestine rallies and protests so that they can be deported once Donald Trump takes office. Betar said they have identified at least 30 students at universities across the United States by combing through videos from protests and using facial recognition software and "relationship database technology," as reported by the New York Post . Ross Glick, director of the US chapter of Betar, told the outlet that the list allegedly contains the names of "Jew-hating foreign nationals on visas who support Hamas." During the Republican National Convention earlier this year, Trump and other party members listed in their platform that they would "deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again" if elected, as previously reported by NBC News . Suspensions for academic or disciplinary reasons can be grounds for dismissal, which can lead to students' visas being revoked, as previously reported by Inside Higher Ed . However, even if the alleged list is released, immigration attorney Jeff Khurgel said it could take months or even years before they could be deported. "They're entitled to due process, they're entitled to a hearing before a judge and they'll have a chance to defend themselves," Khurgel told Inside Higher Ed, adding that these kinds of deportations are rare. The First Amendment protects the right to protest so long as the individuals are not breaking the law. Many civil rights organizations have stated that the pro-Palestine protests in question have not been supporting Hamas, but instead the Palestinian people, and have been largely peaceful, as reported by NBC News. Originally published by Latin Times .
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A vegetarian diet seems unusual at best and anti-patriotic at worst to many folks. But I haven’t eaten red meat since 1980, and I’ve been able to accrue a whole lotta benefits from my decision to focus on eating plants — and so has the planet. Here’s the story of my journey to being a vegetarian, told at a time of year when we give thanks for the gifts bestowed on us. “We are the earth, made of the same stuff; there is no other, no division between us and ‘lower’ or ‘higher’ forms of being.” — Estella Lauder I am a Vietnam War child. I was part of the first youth group to view war through a television screen. I saw young people drafted and shipped to a faraway land that had no personal or political meaning for them. Protests connected the essential precious life we are given to the natural world around us, and texts like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and The Sea around Us spoke to me as an integral part of my identity formation. I came to understand that humans are one with the Earth — that we share ecosystems and life forces. I became a tree hugger, an eco-warrior, eco-nut, eagle freak — these derogatory terms for living in ways connected to the planet didn’t faze me. They empowered me. “What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.” — Thich Nhat Hanh When I was twelve years old, I was seated at the periphery of a group of older female relatives who were bemoaning the discovery of breast cancer in our aunt. It was a time before pre-screenings; my aunt was diagnosed with stage four, terminal. I swore I would never be someone who was susceptible to cancer and began to look into its causes. There I was in the 1970s, and the meat-processing industry was denying how chemicals like nitrates and nitrites react with meat and form cancer-causing compounds. The health risks weren’t important to these meat producers, as using these additives made curing cheaper and quicker, extended shelf life, and gave meat a pleasing pink color. I announced that I wanted to be a vegetarian; my mother said that, as long as I ate in her house, I would eat what she cooked. Meat, canned vegetables, and a potato it was. Since this time I learned that vegetarians have 14% lower cancer risk than meat-eaters. “What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?” – E.M. Forster In a few years I became a first-generation college student. On my own financially, I found a sporadic income source working in bars and restaurants as I figured out college. Soon I was lining up bar pour glasses, churning blenders with exotic frozen drinks, and rolling kegs. At one point I worked for a very kind family who happened to be vegetarians. Yes! I announced that I was going to join them in renouncing meat. Feeling responsible for my decision, they asked me to read a book titled Protein for Vegetarians . (I see now that the author is questioned for “pseudo-scientific” methodology.) Ah, I soon learned it was going to take a lot more than saying No to Meat in order to eat healthy. I continue to seek out protein every day of my life and take vitamin B12, too. “Realize that everything connects to everything else.” ― Leonardo Da Vinci In my 20s I came to understand the appalling treatment that animals receive in the industrial agriculture system. Cattle, pigs, and poultry are managed in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). Many of these animals remain their entire lives in cages with little to no room to move. The Union of Concerned Scientists has criticized such practices. As a vegetarian, I have made a conscious and ethical choice to live in a way that reflects values of compassion, respect for animals, sustainability, and social justice. It makes me a more critical thinker, as I examine my consumer choices and the impact they have on the lives of animals, the environment, and other humans. “Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.” — Steven Harper Yes, I stuck to a vegetarian diet across the decades. Sometimes I did eat seafood or chicken, trying to adapt to a partner’s diet. Pressure to eat meat was profound — countries like the US, UAE, and Brazil make up the top 20 meat-consuming countries in the world , consuming more than 160 kg of meat per person per year. According to Our World in Data , half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture, with most of this used to raise livestock for dairy and meat. Livestock are fed from two sources – lands on which the animals graze and land on which feeding crops, such as soy and cereals, are grown. If everyone shifted to a plant-based diet, we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75% due to a reduction in land used for grazing and a smaller need for land to grow crops. For the last decade I’ve been a lacto-ovo vegetarian — a bit of dairy and eggs, the rest plants. “Nature is the source of all true knowledge.” – Leonardo da Vinci The 21st century was a time that raised our consciousness about the need to reduce burning fossil fuels and power our world with renewables. Additionally, we became aware that reducing emissions takes place along various parts of the supply chain . Compared to plant-based proteins including beans and legumes, beef is responsible for some 20 times more emissions per edible gram of protein . Switching to a plant-based diet can reduce an individual’s annual carbon footprint by up to 2.1 tons with a vegan diet or up to 1.5 tons for vegetarians. I learned that my vegetarian diet dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions. “In a real sense all life is inter-related. All are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail” I began to model what plant-based eating looks like for family and friends — olive oil butter, vegan bacon, soy milk, dark green vegetables. I held dinner parties and served intricate vegetable main dishes like vegan jambalaya, vegetarian mushroom Wellington, vegan sausage and rice casserole, vegan cream of carrot soup, and so many more. I am now a climate activist, drawing upon my experiences of being a vegetarian to guide my path toward sustainability. As I write, I hope that you, too, will consider choosing plant-based meals whenever possible. “Wonderful how completely everything in wild nature fits into us, as if truly part and parent of us. The sun shines not on us, but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.” — John Muir CleanTechnica's Comment Policy LinkedIn WhatsApp Facebook X Email Mastodon RedditOTTAWA—The federal Conservatives lost the last two general elections with very different approaches to the dire threat of the climate crisis. In 2019, under Andrew Scheer, the party gestured towards the seriousness of the challenge but offered no detailed plan to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that cause it. The centrepiece was a promise to tear down the governing Liberals’ national carbon pricing scheme — lampooned as a costly and ineffectual “tax” by the staunchly pro-fossil fuel Tories and their provincial counterparts across the country. The Conservatives claim their plan will give Canada its “best chance” at reaching the Paris Environmentalists generally panned the proposal as weak. Two years later, for the 2021 election, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole took a different tack. Though he promised to change Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon pricing system, the Tories campaigned on a different version of the same policy. Thanks to a host of other green policies, an independent agency called Navius the plan would slash emissions to levels comparable to what the Liberal government was doing. Environmentalists called it the most credible Conservative vision to fight climate change they had ever seen. But it irked some Tories because it reversed party orthodoxy by including a dreaded consumer carbon price. Then the Liberals won anyway. Which brings us to today. It’s Pierre Poilievre’s party now. And, with the Conservatives riding high in the polls, climate activists are raising the alarm. On Thursday, campaigners with Greenpeace at Stornoway, Poilievre’s government-paid mansion in Ottawa’s Rockcliffe Park, locking themselves to a replica oil pumpjack in front of the driveway. It was a stunning reversal for the Conservative leader, who pledged to scrap the Liberal But while it’s true Poilievre has vowed to scrap some policies that experts to emissions reductions before 2030, there’s still a heap of questions related to what a future Conservative government would do. Would they veer in the direction of the Scheer era, and refrain from promising to make real cuts to national emissions? Or would he hew to O’Toole’s path and take a sincere crack at contributing to the world’s struggle to ? The Conservatives appear to be in no hurry to provide a comprehensive answer. Poilievre’s office declined interview requests from the Star for the Conservative leader and several MPs, including the party’s environmental critic — the presumptive environment minister in a Poilievre cabinet — Québec MP Gérard Deltell. An emailed statement from Poilievre’s office ignored several questions about specific Trudeau-era climate policies, but alleged the Liberal government’s “massive carbon tax” and “anti-resource laws” are driving up costs and hampering economic growth. The statement also pointed to Canada being ranked 62nd out of 67 countries as a “very low performer” on climate action, according to the latest , and said Conservatives would approach the issue with “technology and not taxes.” For now, industry players and policy experts outside the Conservative party are searching for hints about what exactly the Tories would do in power. Several who spoke on condition of anonymity about their interactions with the Conservatives said they believe Poilievre’s team is genuinely grappling with questions of climate policy. What’s clear at this point is that a possible Prime Minister Poilievre would significantly alter the climate trajectory of the current Trudeau government, shifting the focus from domestic emissions reduction to economic growth in a time when cost-of-living concerns have dominated the political debate. Greg McLean, the only Conservative MP who agreed to an interview for this story, argued the Liberals have merely hurt the Canadian economy with policies to reduce greenhouse gas pollution from domestic fossil fuel and other industries, while global emissions . “To hamstring our most productive industries ... is literally shooting ourselves, not just in the foot, but really removing ourselves from where we can contribute to a better world going forward,” McLean said. There are some policies that Poilievre has plainly said he would repeal. He would undoubtedly “axe the tax,” as he’s vowed to do repeatedly, referring to the federal government’s carbon tax-and-rebate system, which requires provinces to have a minimum price on consumer fuels like gasoline and returns proceeds in quarterly payments to households. Siding with Conservative premiers, he opposes incoming federal regulations to cap emissions from the oil and gas sector — the industry responsible for the biggest chunk of Canada’s — and to restrict emissions from power plants. He has denounced federal clean fuel standards — regulations designed to spur the develop of lower-emission fuels — as a second “carbon tax” that his party would ditch. Beyond that, Poilievre’s Conservatives have vowed to repeal the Trudeau government’s ban on oil tanker exports from the north coast of British Columbia. In his statement to the Star, Poilievre also promised to repeal the federal Impact Assessment Act for major development projects, and speed up approvals of clean energy projects “like zero-emitting hydro, tidal and nuclear energy,” and for “clean” liquified natural gas (LNG), “to displace dirty coal-burning in Asia.” He also said the Conservatives would support carbon capture technology and the mining of strategic minerals. But policy experts and industry insiders are well aware that many unanswered questions remain. The biggest, according to several of them, is whether a Poilievre government would keep the federal requirement for an industrial carbon price. The Canadian Climate Institute predicts that policy will do much of the heavy lifting for Canada’s emissions reductions by 2030, assuming the price increases as currently scheduled to $170 per tonne of emissions. The Conservative leader has declined to clarify his stance on the industrial price several times, despite expectations in some quarters that he would maintain it. In a recent speech, O’Toole — the former party leader — said he believes it will likely remain “untouched” if Poilievre takes power. There are also a host of tax credits the Liberals created to spur the development of clean technologies, hydrogen energy, electric vehicle batteries and carbon capture projects. The current government expects these credits to cost $80 billion over 11 years, and Poilievre’s office did not clarify their approach when asked by the Star. Heather Exner-Pirot, an adviser at the Business Council of Canada and director of natural resources, energy and environment policy at Ottawa’s Macdonald-Laurier Institute, suggested there is no political benefit for the Conservatives to be more open about climate policy. The party’s political base isn’t clamouring for a climate plan, she said, while showing one in advance of an election would open it up to attacks from other parties. Arguing climate change has been “treated as a wedge issue” that has polarized the debate, Exner-Pirot predicted a Poilievre government would ditch the country’s current emissions targets and take a more “pragmatic” approach that would emphasize Canadian economic growth over domestic climate action. Under the Liberals, Canada is striving to slash its annual emissions to 40 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. A spokesperson for Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said the government is also preparing to announce a target for 2035 in the coming weeks. “I would be surprised if they kept the targets or followed the targets or reported on the targets,” said Exner-Pirot, echoing expectations Poilievre’s team would claim climate progress through Canadian energy exports. The “technology, not taxes” mantra, she said, likely suggests supporting things like emissions-free nuclear power and exporting more LNG that could replace heavier emitting energy sources — like coal — in other countries. “Even if our domestic emissions go up, who cares? Because global emissions will be better,” she said. One non-party source, who spoke on condition of anonymity about interactions with Poilievre’s office, said they have sensed “cross pressure” within the federal Conservatives, with some signalling a desire to fully tear down Trudeau-era climate policies and others who want a more credible plan. “We’re hearing different things from different caucus members,” the source said. “It’s not clear to me where they’re going to land.” A second industry source agreed that “they’re still trying to figure out exactly what they’re going to do” on policies like industrial carbon pricing, but added that the Conservatives appear to “understand that they need to have something to say on climate.” But the source predicted Poilievre’s Conservatives will try and talk about these policies in the context of economic growth and affordability, rather than through the goal of reducing greenhouse gas pollution. Based on this source’s interactions, such climate action is “absolutely not front and centre” with the current crop of Conservatives. Meanwhile, writing recently for the online publication , David McLaughlin, the former chief of staff to Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, said “no climate plan is not an option” for Poilievre’s party. McLaughlin argued the Conservatives should promise to run all federal climate policies through a cost-benefit analysis before deciding which ones to scrap, and set an “achievable” emissions target based on cumulative emissions over a period of time, instead of annual pollution. For Catherine Abreu, director at the International Climate Politics Hub, a national retreat from serious climate action would hamper Canada’s stature in a world already grappling with the devastation of a warming world. Canada, she noted, is one of the , as well as one of the top exporters of fossil fuel emissions, according to from the group Climate Action Tracker. Yet she raised the prospect that the Conservatives could be convinced to take climate change more seriously, if emissions reduction can be understood on the grounds of affordability and economic growth that Poilievre appears to favour. “They’ll hopefully feel the pressure,” Abreu said.
Beware: Clean energy’s dirty secretsGrowing up, and to this day, game nights have been a regular activity my family enjoys. Whether it is our annual “Game Day” in the winter season where we all gather for a day of playing our favorite card and board games or trying out new games together when visiting out-of-town family, playing games has been a fun way for my family to bond. Reflecting on all the time my family has spent together playing games, I recognize how strongly it impacted our relationships, without actually realizing it in the moment. Along with strengthening relationships, there are countless hidden benefits that come from family game nights. Focusing on the benefits for children, playing games has a strong influence on a child’s development. Playing games strengthens hand/eye coordination and fine motor skills. Games that are especially good for fine motor skills include Jenga, Operation, and any games that involve rolling dice or shuffling cards. When a child plays games, there is a high likelihood their grades will improve. Games entailing academic elements can help students prepare for and excel in school. Examples of games with academic elements include Uno, Scrabble, and Chutes and Ladders. Problem-solving is another developmental skill that can be improved by playing games. Certain games help with the growth of memorization skills as well as assisting children in solving problems on their own. Examples of games that promote problem-solving include Chess, Trouble, Connect 4, and Monopoly. Additional benefits of game playing include growth in vocabulary and reading skills, building math skills, and encouraging strategic thinking. At school, motivation levels increase, and students have stronger relationships with their peers. Children learn how to take turns, develop patience, practice playing fair, follow rules, and gain the ability to predict outcomes. From watching their family win and lose, children can also develop good sportsmanship. Playing games has benefits for all members of the household. No matter how young a child is, they are positively impacted by this time together. Two- to three-year-olds have the skills for beginner games or to participate some, and infants enjoy the noise of conversation. Games promote family bonding through communication, working together, and making memories. For adults, laughing and playing games can reduce stress and lower blood pressure though the release of endorphins. Not only are games an amazing way to help children develop in all aspects of their lives, spending this time together also creates unforgettable memories you will have forever. While it can be a challenge to add playing games to the mix of work, sports practices, homework, school, and other family commitments, there are creative ways to make time. Some ideas include playing a game right after dinner, scheduling dates in advance, playing games at birthday celebrations, or even working in a short game for ten minutes. Grab a game, your family, and start your own family game night tradition! The benefits will continue for a lifetime.No. 7 Tennessee 36, Vanderbilt 23
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