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August 4, 2020
The Agriculture Directorate in Sweida estimated the province’s production of pistachio for this season to be around 515 tons, 410 of it coming from rainfed plants and the rest for the irrigated plants. In"... |
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August 6, 2020
Vestas has become the first renewable energy manufacturer to have its targets validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) as consistent with a 1.5 deg C scenario. The target validation follows Vestas’ announcement in January 2020 to become carbon neutral, without the use of offsets, by 2030.
The SBTi has validated the company’s greenhouse gas reduction targets and confirmed them as in line with the levels required to keep global warming to 1.5 deg C above pre-industrial"... August 6, 2020
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The US Treasury Department has extended a waiver allowing a little-known American company, Delta Crescent Energy, to develop oil fields in northeastern Syria. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R, South Carolina) first revealed on July 30 that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the partner of the anti-ISIS Coalition in northeast Syria, had signed a deal with a US company to modernize oilfields there. Graham’s remarks came during testimony from Secretary of State"... August 6, 2020
SOFIA: “We need at least 100 charter flights a day,” says Plamen Kopchev, head of the hotel owners’ association in Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach, laid waste by the coronavirus pandemic. But the trouble is, only a fraction of those flights have been arriving, a disaster for a resort Kopchev explains “is made for mass tourism” — a model that some Bulgarians have long been questioning and which now lies in tatters. Bulgaria is the poorest country"... August 6, 2020
Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA), a global leader in interactive entertainment, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Istanbul-based Rollic, a mobile games developer and publisher with an exciting portfolio"... August 6, 2020
Regulatory DataCorp (RDC) has been recognized in a new report from Celent that profiles vendors of Know Your Customer (KYC) systems. RDC, which Moody’s acquired in January, won the 2020 xCelent Customer Base award for KYC Systems. The number of live customers using its system, and the geographic footprint and business sectors of its client base are among the factors that contributed to RDC earning this award. RDC combines forward-looking technology with an expansive proprietary risk-relevant dataset to deliver best-in-class customer screening solutions. Organizations around the world employ RDC solutions when onboarding new customers, for their ongoing KYC and AML compliance and anti-bribery and corruption due diligence, and for assessing and managing their vendor risk. “The ability to assess the risk status of new customers—as well as changes in the risk profile of existing clients—is a necessary foundation to the risk-based approach to AML compliance,” said Neil Katkov, Head of Risk and Compliance, Celent. “In this context, a strength......
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