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Developer-focused video platform Mux achieves unicorn status with $105M funding (TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha Barely more than eight months after announcing a $37 million funding round, Mux has another $105 million. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/mux-series-d/

As concerns rise over forest carbon offsets, Pachama’s verified offset marketplace gets $15 million (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber Restoring and preserving the world’s forests has long been considered one of the easiest, lowest cost, and simplest ways to reduce the amount...

Europe/Apple – Europe charges Apple with antitrust breach, citing Spotify App Store complaint (TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas The European Commission has issued a formal ‘statement of objections’ against Apple, saying today that its preliminary view is Apple’s app store rules distort competition...

Europe/Ukraine – EU ‘concerned’ by Ukraine sacking of energy firm chief (Euractiv)

EURACTIV.com with AFP The European Union has “serious concerns” over the Ukrainian government’s decision to dismiss the reform-minded head of state-owned oil and gas company...

Europe/Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan – EU ‘regrets’ violence on Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan border (Euractiv)

Georgi Gotev | EURACTIV.com The EU on Friday (30 April) said it “regretted” a serious escalation of tensions at the border between the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan,...

Europe – Social Europe – No Green Deal without a Social Deal (Euractiv)

Norbert Kluge | Hans-Böckler-Stiftung ‘No one should be left behind’: that is the European Commission’s official message concerning its Green Deal and EU Recovery Programme. What does...

Blue economy: the potential of our oceans to contribute to a green recovery (Euractiv)

Brian Maguire | EURACTIV.com According to OECD projections, by 2030, the “Blue Economy” could outperform the growth of the global economy as a whole, both in terms...

Tunisia – Incomplete Decentralization: Solid Waste Management, Local Politics, and Environmental Activism in Tunisia (Arab Reform Initiative)

The Arab Reform Initiative and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tunis office, today released a new report titled Environmentalism After Decentralization: The Local Politics of Solid...

Ghana – Ghana’s Economic Outlook: Business, Trade and Economic Transformation (ACET)

In this Q&A originally published in the French magazine Emerging Nations, Prof. John Asafu-Adjaye, Senior Fellow at the Economic Management and Governance Program and Charles Odoom, Head...

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