[ad_1] NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Today at the New York Stock Exchange, the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA), in collaboration with 13 other organizations, is set to launch The Buyer’s Guide to High-Quality Cookstove Carbon Credits. This first-of-its-kind guide aims to bring greater clarity and integrity to the cookstove carbon credit market by equipping corporate buyers with the tools and insights they need to support high-quality projects that deliver climate impact. Carbon credits derived from clean cookstove projects have the potential to reduce over a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, while also tackling energy poverty, forest…
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[ad_1] Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 13, 2025.Danielle DeVries | CNBCStock futures are little changed early Friday as investors looked to the end of a losing week and month and awaited key inflation data.Dow Jones Industrial Average futures lost 18 points, or less than 0.1%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.04% and 0.07% respectively.Those moves come as investors ready for the final trading day of the week and month on Friday. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite has led the way down, sliding around 5.5% in February due largely to a…
[ad_1] CIFOR-ICRAF’s mangrove nursery in Sungsang IV village Banyuasin, South Sumatra. Photo by Ricky Martin / CIFOR-ICRAF Indonesia is home to 3.39 million hectares of mangroves, storing an estimated 3.14 billion tons of carbon. This carbon stock presents an opportunity for revenue generation through carbon trading, which could help fund mangrove restoration and conservation efforts. But how crucial is carbon trading for the mangrove business? To answer this question, Indonesian stakeholders shared their insights during a national dialogue hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), the National Research and Innovation Agency and the Blue Carbon Deck,…
[ad_1] The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesU.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Thursday the Trump administration will take steps to boost air traffic controller hiring after a series of recent safety incidents again raised questions about a persistent staffing shortage.The Federal Aviation Administration will open its hiring window to become an air traffic controller through March 17, will increase starting salaries by 30% for candidates who go to the FAA training academy and will speed the time-to-hire by cutting more than four months off the old process.A persistent shortage of controllers has delayed flights. At many facilities, controllers are working mandatory…
[ad_1] Stocks plummeted on Thursday as tech sold off following Nvidia’s (NVDA) latest earnings report while investors took stock of the economy amid President Trump’s latest tariff pledges. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell more than 1.6%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) dropped 2.8%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) dropped 0.4%. Investors dug into Nvidia’s quarterly earnings beat, which signaled plenty of scope for growth as it eased worries about DeepSeek and faltering AI demand. The results initially met a muted response as its profit outlook raised doubts on Wall Street. Nvidia’s stock erased early morning gains to drop…
[ad_1] By Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s New World Development, which has been battling liquidity stress for the past three years, is set to report an interim net loss of up to $875 million on Friday, hurt by a prolonged property downturn and high interest costs. Investors are watching to see whether the deepening debt woes of New World, one of the biggest property developers in Hong Kong, could spiral into a sector crisis reminiscent of the one in mainland China that started in 2021 and led to scores of company defaults there. They also want an…
[ad_1] Osakawayne Studios | Moment | Getty ImagesStrong U.S. demand for gold is “sucking” bullion out of some countries as traders try to stockpile it before U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico kick into high gear.There’s a “glut of gold” in New York’s vaults, Adrian Ash, BullionVault’s director of research, told CNBC.More than 600 tons, or almost 20 million ounces of gold, has been transported into the city’s vaults since December last year, according to data provided by the World Gold Council. That amount of gold doesn’t normally belong in New York, said John Reade, World Gold…
[ad_1] This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Yoni Appelbaum to discuss his book Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. We discuss the history of moving in the United States and how the different traditions of land ownership and management in America evolved. We also talk about how much people loved apartments at the turn of the 19th century and zoning’s targeted groups.Scroll down below the audio player for an edited excerpt of our conversation, or click here for an unedited, AI-generated transcript of the entire conversation.Jeff Wood: I saw your discussion with Rachel…
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, Feb. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GT Biopharma, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: GTBP), a clinical stage immuno-oncology company focused on developing innovative therapeutics based on the Company’s proprietary TriKE® natural killer (“NK”) cell engager platform, today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements for the exercise of certain existing warrants to purchase an aggregate of 302,069 shares of its common stock having an exercise price of $4.35 per share, originally issued in May 2024. The resale of the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the existing warrants is registered pursuant to an effective…
[ad_1] The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. eased for the sixth week in a row, a welcome boost in purchasing power for home shoppers just as the annual spring homebuying season gets going.The average rate fell 6.76% from 6.85% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, it averaged 6.94%. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners seeking to refinance their home loan to a lower rate, also eased this week. The average rate fell to 5.94% from 6.04% last week. A year ago, it averaged 6.26%, Freddie Mac said.The steady…