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Today is Earth Day and, ahead of a virtual climate summit between world leaders, the UK committed this week to some of the steepest carbon emission reduction targets of any major economy. The pledge to cut emissions 78 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2035 will require significant technological advances, but also major lifestyle changes. Emma Gatten explains what it might mean for you, from commercial flights to your domestic boiler.
Domestic “Covid passports” might be controversial, but there is no doubting their value in helping to restore international travel. They might also arrive in time to save the summer holidays. Ben Riley-Smith and Charles Hymas report today on plans for stripped-back vaccine certificates that could launch as early as mid-May and enable the return of European travel.
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Football’s Super League is dead, less than 48 hours after its botched launch. Attention has now focused on what should be done about those behind the breakaway attempt and, indeed, who to punish. Less scrutinised has been the role of the giant American bank, JP Morgan. Oliver Gill looks at how the company helped to get the Super League off the ground and why a certain Chuka Umunna might be in line to clean up the mess.
Finally, few albums have been so commercially successful and yet so critically derided as Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf. Yet the record might never have been. As James Hall explains in this fascinating history of the album, the songs didn't fit a particular trend and record executives weren’t convinced.
Chris
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