The impact of COVID-19 on the health care industry can hardly be overstated. Numerous important employment law developments occurred in 2020 related to COVID-19 that impacted the industry, including guidance on mandatory vaccination, COVID-19 whistleblower claims, and claims from individuals exposed to COVID-19 against employers of employee family members. In […]

Climate change is accelerating, yet it isn’t too late yet to keep warming to under 1.5 Celsius, as per the Paris Agreement, by the end of the century. This is according to the British-Dutch gas company Shell, which has set out its energy transformation scenarios to help us keep climate […]

Event Post February 16, 2021 Policy seminar: Rebuilding food and agricultural research institutions in a post-pandemic world Honor Dearlove Some reasons for optimism on food system innovation.

Countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic Source: World Food Programme About 120,000 people from CAR have fled, mostly to DRC, after an upsurge in violence in December. Up to 5,000 crossed into Cameroon, where WFP already supports almost 600,000 people every month.

A British man pleaded guilty on Monday to breaking Singapore’s strict coronavirus rules by sneaking out of his hotel room to meet his fiancée while he was undergoing two weeks of mandatory quarantine.

A decade ago, the Dalai Lama set himself a significant deadline.

Overview In late July 2020 the New South Wales Government announced it would provide duty and land tax incentives for qualifying “build-to-rent projects”. Qualifying projects must meet conditions set out in the Treasurer’s Guidelines. Those Guidelines were first published on 12 February 2021. The incentives include: a 50% reduction in the […]