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France’s strategy for EU startup policies: Talent and money

TechCrunch

And the French government is taking advantage of this opportunity to make some progress on the tech startup policy front. Last year, the European Commission and Member States launched the Startup Nations Standard. As the name suggests, this new instrument is in charge of establishing a standard for startup policies around Europe.

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COP16 talks on biodiversity resume in Rome. Here’s what’s at the top of the agenda

Fast Company Tech

An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. ” said Georgina Chandler, head of policy and campaigns for the Zoological Society London. Key sources of biodiversity finance are shrinking or disappearing, he said.

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Uber pledges to shift to ‘100 percent’ electric vehicles by 2030

The Verge

The mayor of Denmark capital Copenhagen went so far as to propose a ban on diesel cars in the city last year that would go into effect by the end of 2019; Copenhagen has since tempered its proposal to aim for net-zero carbon emissions and carbon neutrality by 2025. The US is lagging behind most of the world in terms of climate policy.

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Making Sense of the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen: A Nonprofit Perspective

Tech Soup

World leaders are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark right now. They're debating climate change agreements and working to create a new set of global policies to help reduce climate change and its many negative impacts.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Twitter faces a $250 million lawsuit filed by major music publishers The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), representing 17 publishers, listed 1,700 songs for which it sent multiple copyright violation notices to Twitter. It’s not clear if the company is applying the same policy to personal accounts.

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This ambitious proposal would radically reinvent Europe’s rail system

Fast Company Tech

“Networks are good within nations. France has a great transportation network, and we do in Denmark as well,” says Pour, who’s based in Copenhagen. Image: 21st Europe] “The TEN-T network is already laying a foundation for policy and for which routes are essential for Europe’s connectivity.

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Greenland’s center-right party wins in latest elections as nation calls for a united front against Trump

Fast Company Tech

Both Demokraatit, or the Democrats, and the second-place finisher Naleraq, or Point of Orientation, favor Greenland’s independence from Denmark but differ on the pace of change. A break from Denmark wasn’t on the ballot, but it was on everyone’s mind. was going to get it “one way or the other.”

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