At the COP Conference in Glasgow over the next two weeks, over 25,000 people representing 200 countries including policy makers, negotiators, journalists and world leaders from business and politics will meet to agree accelerated reduction of emmissions and collaborative means to keep the forecast global temperature rise to under 1.5 degrees.
Wow! 3 years and 7 months after the EU Referendum in which 51,9% of voters ticked “Leave”, we only have a very short time left to go until the UK leaves the EU! With amazingly little fanfare or drama, the UK will quietly and legally exit the world’s largest trading bloc after 45 years as one of its most significant members. With the departure of the UK and its 16% budget contribution *(source Financial Times), the economy of the EU is set to become smaller than that of the US. Reading the British media over the past few weeks, it seems as if “Meghxit or Harrxit” seem to be more in the public interest than Brexit as a another fiercely independent member leaves a stable instituion that is argubaly in need of modernization.