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The US has unveiled an updated carbon pledge that will nearly halve its emissions by 2030. The announcement came at a virtual summit on climate at the White House, and Thanu Yakupitiyage of climate action group 350 gives us her response to the news. Paula DiPerna of international not-for-profit, the Climate Disclosure Project, tells us how companies have started to adapt their businesses ahead of government policy intervention. Avijit Das is chief executive of Eveready, which manufactures small wind turbines in Africa, and discusses what role wind power can play in the future energy mix.
Following the conviction in Minneapolis of the police officer who murdered George Floyd almost 11 months ago, and the funeral tomorrow in the same city of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man killed by a police officer, we look at policy work and corporate pledges aimed at addressing systemic racism. We hear from Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, about the prospects for federal legislation on police reform.
Also in the programme, there's a meeting at the World Trade Organisation devoted to a proposal from South Africa and India to temporarily waive patent protections on vaccines, in a bid to boost global vaccine supply. South Africa's trade and industry minister Ebrahim Patel makes the case for such a move. Plus, our regular workplace commentator, Peter Morgan, examines recent research by Microsoft indicating that many bosses may be oblivious to the number of people who will be looking to move on from their teams once the pandemic is over.
The 91热爆鈥檚 Fergus Nicoll will be joined from Hong Kong by Enda Curran, Chief Asia Economics Correspondent for Bloomberg News, from Los Angeles, Nicole Childers, Executive Producer of Marketplace Morning Report on American Public Media, and from Washington, Claire Healy, Director of E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism.
(Picture: President Biden addresses the climate summit. Picture credit: EPA.)