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Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI

Data group forecasts deficit of 10mn tonnes by 2040, equivalent to nearly one-third of current global demand

We are an international group of researchers and practitioners interested in the emerging fields of post-growth and ecological macroeconomics. Our aim is to advance economic theory, methodology and policy in order to adequately address some of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change, rising inequality, and financial instability.

The nation’s top banks are quietly advising their clients on how to build a financial life raft — or perhaps life yacht — from the wreckage of runaway climate change. Make no mistake: The forecasts coming from Wall Street’s leading financial institutions are bleak. But they also point their clients to potential profit-making opportunities from the havoc spreading across the planet, writes Corbin Hiar.

As authorities declared 2024 the hottest on record, a key private sector climate alliance, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) abandoned a requirement that members be aligned to the Paris agreement. That was followed by a network of net zero asset managers suspending work, and deleting from its website its statement of commitments that members must adopt, after BlackRock, the biggest of them all, quit its ranks.

This report focuses on the 20 investors and 20 banks that are funding the methane generating activities of 15 of the leading meat and dairy companies worldwide. Collectively these financial institutions fund a methane footprint that could exceed 503 Mt CO2e – nearly as big as the CO2emissions of Saudi Arabia.

Met ruim honderd biljoen dollar aan vermogen is de Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero op papier de machtigste financiële organisatie ter wereld. Het doel is om klimaatneutraal te worden tegen 2050. Maar tussen woord en daad gapen belangen in de fossiele industrie en conservatieve lobbygroepen.

Près de la moitié de la population mondiale est appelée aux urnes en 2024. Avec la démocratisation vertigineuse des outils d’intelligence artificielle, les deepfakes de plus en plus réalistes sont à la portée de tous. Jamais les risques de propagande et de manipulation n’ont été aussi grands, alerte le “Financial Times”.

Paris demande l'appui de Londres pour l'aider à combler le déficit des projets de construction de réacteurs nucléaires menés par EDF en Grande-Bretagne, rapporte jeudi le quotidien Financial Times en citant le ministère français de l'Économie. Le quotidien affirme dans son édition de jeudi que "le gouvernement français fait pression sur le Royaume-Uni pour qu'il l'aide à combler un déficit de plusieurs milliards d'euros dans le budget des projets nucléaires construits en Grande-Bretagne par l'opérateur électrique français EDF".

But the decline in oil, gas and coal will not be steep enough to limit global warming to 1.5C