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The UK’s pathway to net zero carbon emissions is about to get harder
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The UK’s pathway to net zero carbon emissions is about to get harder

In 1990, as UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher was about to leave office, the economy was slipping into recession and construction workers on the Channel Tunnel had just reached the shores of France. At the time, the country was emitting [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/provisional-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics] about 794 million metric tons of greenhouse gases per year. Thirty years later, emissions are less than half that level, according to a new analysis [https

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Greater empathy in the workplace can heal society
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Greater empathy in the workplace can heal society

Even before the disruptive and damaging events of 2020 and early 2021—a global pandemic, a racial reckoning, economic uncertainty, and the most divisive political climate in living memory—our society has had a larger, more encompassing problem. We have an empathy deficit. For a lot of reasons we can point to—stark political divisions, the isolation made easy by technology, the deterioration of civility—we have given up on understanding our fellow humans. We’ve collectively lost the ability to

IKEA has replaced its print catalog with an audiobook
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IKEA has replaced its print catalog with an audiobook

When IKEA canceled its beloved print catalog [https://qz.com/quartzy/1036380/ikea-catalogue-2017-defining-domestic-bliss-in-different-cultures/] last year, it hinted at plans to venture into new formats to better reach an increasingly internet-dependent customer base. The world’s largest furniture company bolstered its e-commerce platform, built a better mobile app, and opened a string of small retail outlets in urban areas around the world. In what may be its zaniest gambit yet, IKEA has launc

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