A Swiss investment company plans to raise awareness about the shortage of women on corporate boards around the world and generate returns for its investors in the process, The New York Times’s Julia Werdigier reports from London.Naissance Capital, based in Zurich, is to start the Women’s Leadership Fund in January, which will invest exclusively in companies whose boards include women, or take minority stakes in companies that do not “understand the need for greater female representation” and use
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Left to right: Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press, John Stillwell/Associated PressLeft: Pope Benedict XVI at a canonization ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Oct. 11. Right: The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury and leading cleric of the Anglican Church at a service at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, Oct. 9.The Vatican announced on Tuesday that it would make it easier for Anglicans who are uncomfortable with the Church of England’s acceptance of women pries
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In a crucial week for the future of motoring, HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein, President of the Jordan Olympic Committee (JOC) and Chairman of Jordan Motorsport, has delivered a clear message at a key sporting conference that sport can help to unify the world’s divided communities. Speaking as a panel guest at the Global Sports Industry Congress in London ahead of flying to Paris for Friday’s FIA Presidential elections, HRH Prince Feisal said that sport can “unite people from across the divides”.
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By Elizabeth Harrin (London) If you are in the market for a new job, and want to make sure that your next employer is family friendly, you’ll want to check out Working Families’ list of top employers. U.K. work-life balance charity Working Families has launched an inaugural list of the best of the best family-friendly employers . The list recognises employers whose policies and practices have created working environments that are both flexible and great places to work. The 20 organisa
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No fewer than 100 large-scale carbon capture and storage projects within about a decade, at a cost of some $56 billion — that’s what International Energy Agency chief Nobuo Tanaka said the world needs in order to help address climate change, Reuters reports . And it’s only the beginning of his vision for a massive carbon capture drive. At the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, a conference of energy ministers taking place this week in London, Tanaka called for 850 CCS projects by 2030 and 3
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