The Download: COP28 controversy and the future of families

The United Arab Emirates is among the world’s largest oil producers. It is also the positioning of this 12 months’s UN COP28 local weather summit, which kicks off later this week in Dubai. 

It is a controversial host, however the fact is that there’s large potential for oil and fuel firms to assist deal with local weather change, each by cleansing up their operations and by investing their appreciable wealth and experience into new applied sciences.

The issue is that these firms even have a vested curiosity in preserving the established order. In the event that they wish to be a part of a net-zero future, one thing might want to change—and shortly. Read the full story.

—Casey Crownhart

How reproductive expertise can reverse inhabitants decline

Beginning charges have been plummeting in rich nations, properly under the “alternative” price. Even in China, a dramatic downturn within the variety of infants has officers scrambling, as its inhabitants development turns destructive.

So, what’s behind the infant bust and might new reproductive expertise reverse the pattern? MIT Expertise Overview is internet hosting a subscriber-only Roundtables dialogue on how improvements from the lab might have an effect on the way forward for households at 11am ET this morning, that includes Antonio Regalado, our biotechnology editor, and entrepreneur Martín Varsavsky, founding father of fertility clinic Prelude Fertility. Don’t miss out—make sure you register now.

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