Lisen Schultz, deputy science director at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, moderates a discussion on the effects of climate change on water. Participating are: Steven Chu, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1997 Julian Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and professor of physical geography in the University of Cambridge Johan Rockström, professor of environmental science and co-chair of the world’s largest research network for global sustainability science, Future Earth The Nobel Week Dialogu

Los Angeles, CA – November 25, 2018 – Today, in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) to be held from 2 to 14 December 2018 in Katowice, Poland, the Global Bank Group announces the launch of the Global Bank Disaster Risk Reduction and Reconstruction Fund – An Umbrella Trust Fund (the GB-DRRRF). Its purpose is mainstreaming climate change into development to help achieve the Sendai Framework targets by 2030 - a decade-long plan to help make the world safer from disasters caused by natural hazards — and to support the implementation of the Global Climate Agreement in Paris, and prevent disasters undermining progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

A new facility funded by both private and public sector bodies aimed at ensuring infrastructure projects can be pushed through from financing to the construction stage is to be launched as soon as this week, GlobalMarkets can reveal.

December 5th, 2013 -- With the death of Nelson Mandela, the world has lost "a visionary leader, a giant for justice who raised the standard of humanity the world over," according to Ron Nechemia, Chairman of the EurOrient Financial Group. Imprisoned for nearly three decades for his fight against white minority rule, Nelson Mandela emerged determined to use his prestige and charisma to bring down apartheid while avoiding a civil war. Mandela was freed in 1990 and became South Africa's first black president in 1994.

Mr Roger A Burston, a British national, with highly effective managerial skills and substantial Human Resources and Compensation management experience within the private sector and three international financial organizations namely the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and in the financial private sector was appointed by Global Bank President, Mr. Ron Nechemia, as Human Resources Advisor to the Chairman and Assistant Corporate Secretary for Global Bank Group where he will be working closely with the President on building the leadership of the Bank.