DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Take a look inside a $1.1 million 'zero emissions' home
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Courtesy: Wojciechowski FamilyGreg Iacurci: What does it mean for your home to be considered 'zero emissions'? Not only am I producing solar [energy] and any excess is going back onto the grid, but the power from the grid coming into my home is clean and sustainable. MW: Our utility bills are projected to be about $917 a year with [solar] panels, or around $80 a month. Courtesy: Wojciechowski FamilyCourtesy: Wojciechowski FamilyCourtesy: Wojciechowski FamilyCourtesy: Wojciechowski FamilyCourtesy: Wojciechowski FamilyGI: What do you mean solar offsets it? Solar panels only make sense if you build an energy-efficient home that's really all-electric.

Persons: Morgan Wojciechowski, Casey, Greg Iacurci, That's, It's Organizations: Dominion Locations: It's, Walnut, U.S

☆ Angry farmer protests are spreading across Europe — and getting results
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Silvia Amaro | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

But that reputation is now being firmly tested, after it toned down its climate policies following angry farmer protests that are taking place across the continent. The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, now intends to scrap a plan to halve pesticide use. Speaking to CNBC Thursday, the EU's Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said he was "happy" about the U-turns because they were not "fully fair." The EU wants to become carbon neutral by 2050. It also wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.

Persons: Janusz Wojciechowski, Wojciechowski, Europe's, Alberto Alemanno, Alemanno Organizations: European Commission, EU, CNBC, Paris Business School Locations: H.E.C

☆ EU's Eastern Members Demand Import Duties on Ukraine Grains
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The European Union's eastern states are demanding the EU impose import duties on Ukraine grains, citing unfair competition, Hungary's agricultural ministry said on Monday. "One of these [measures] could be introducing import duties on the most sensitive agricultural products." Ukraine's larger farm sizes make the country's grain exports cheaper and that is pushing EU farmers out of their traditional export markets, the ministers said. Farmers in Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia "have suffered significant damages" since the EU suspended import quotas and customs on grain from Ukraine last year, they said. Ukraine responded by complaining to the World Trade Organization against the three countries, while other EU members condemned the unilateral moves.

Persons: Istvan Nagy, Valdis, Janusz Wojciechowski, Anita Komuves, Susan Fenton Organizations: European Commission, Hungary's, Farmers, EU Trade, EU, World Trade Organization Locations: BUDAPEST, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Brussels, Kyiv

☆ Australia PM's Germany, NATO trip to focus on trade, security
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SYDNEY, July 9 (Reuters) - Trade and security will be priorities for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on a trip this week to meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and attend a NATO summit in Lithuania, Albanese's office said. Australia is not a member of NATO but has a decades-long relationship with the Western alliance and attended last year's summit in Madrid as a non-member participant. "Alongside our NATO allies, Australia continues to demonstrate our unwavering support for Ukraine, and our condemnation of Russia’s illegal and immoral invasion," Albanese said in the statement. Last month, Australia promised a new A$110 million ($74 million) package to Ukraine, including 70 military vehicles to defend against Russia's invasion, taking Australia's total contribution for Ukraine to A$790 million ($530 million). Also this week, Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell will travel to Brussels, seeking to advance stalled talks for a free trade agreement between Australia and the EU.

Persons: Anthony Albanese, Olaf Scholz, Scholz, " Albanese, Don Farrell, Valdis, Janusz Wojciechowski, Farrell, Sam McKeith, William Mallard Organizations: SYDNEY, Australian, NATO, Labor, Atlantic, Organization, Ukraine, Australian Trade, EU, European Union, Reuters, Trade, Agriculture, Thomson Locations: Lithuania, Australia, Germany, Lithuanian, Vilnius, Madrid, Russia, Ukraine, Brussels, Sydney

☆ Meet the little-known Google exec steering the company's $209 billion ad business through an uncertain economy and the minefield of privacy concerns
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Ryan Joe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Jerry Dischler is steering Google's $209 billion ads business through major challenges. It falls to him to reinvent digital advertising to keep its $209 billion ad business going. At the same time, he has to keep growing Google's ad business amid increasingly dour spend forecasts. He went on to search ads in 2008, and by 2009, he was overseeing Google's team that developed new ad formats. Even when some parts of Google's ad business slows, as YouTube and Google network ads did last quarter, it gains strength in other areas, such as search.

☆ CE va interzice cuștile pentru animalele din ferme, măsură cerută de peste 1 milion de europeni; Când va intra în vigoare
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-30 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: Profimedia ImagesCE va interzice cuștile pentru animalele din ferme, măsură cerută de peste 1 milion de europeni; Când va intra în vigoareComisia Europeană vrea să elimine cuștile pentru o serie de animale crescute la ferme și a anunțat că va veni cu o propunere legislativă până în 2023. „Un sistem alimentar durabil este indisolubil legat de respectarea unor standarde ridicate de bunăstare a animalelor. Mulțumită cetățenilor noștri, Comisia își va spori și mai mult ambițiile în această privință și va elimina treptat utilizarea sistemelor de cuști pentru fermele de animale”, a spus Janusz Wojciechowski, comisarul european pentru agricultură. Propunerea Comisiei va viza, pe de o parte, animalele care fac deja obiectul legislației - găinile ouătoare, scroafele și vițeii. Pentru aceste animale, Comisia a solicitat deja Autorității Europene pentru Siguranța Alimentară să completeze dovezile științifice existente în vederea stabilirii condițiilor necesare pentru interzicerea cuștilor.

Persons: Janusz Organizations: CE, Autorității Europene

☆ Liderii UE, aproape de un acord privind Politica Agricolă Comună, după trei ani de dispute; Miza: 387 miliarde de euro
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-25 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Negociatorii reprezentând Parlamentul European şi statele membre UE încearcă astfel să pună capăt unei dispute care durează de trei ani pe tema viitorului Politicii Agricole Comune (PAC), care ocupă cea mai mare „felie” din bugetul UE. Pentru ca această reformă a PAC să poată fi aplicată, statele membre trebuie să ajungă la o înţelegere cu Parlamentul European. Printre "eco-scheme" se numără refacerea zonelor umede pentru a absorbi CO2 sau agricultura ecologică, informează Digi24. Orice fonduri sub aceste limite care nu sunt cheltuite pentru „eco-scheme” trebuie cheltuite pentru măsuri verzi în alte domenii. Noile reguli din Politica Agricolă Comună se vor aplica din 2023.

Persons: Reuters, Janusz Wojciechowski Organizations: Uniunii Europene, Parlamentul, UE, Parlamentul European, discuţii Locations: UE, Statele

Câteva mii de oameni s-au adunat miercuri în Varșovia pentru a sărbători Ziua Independenței Poloniei, însă au izbucnit proteste şi ciocniri între unele persoane adunate la manifestaţie și polițiști. Potem rozpoczęła się regularna bitwa z policją @RadioZET_NEWS pic.twitter.com/EiWS5XXQPF — Piotr Drabik (@piotrdrabik) November 11, 2020Patrioci szturmujący Empik po dzieła Jana Pawła II i kardynała Dziwisza. To jest ten patriotyzm? 🇵🇱#NIEdlanacjonalizmu #11listopada pic.twitter.com/CVDdr6fH9c — Igor Wojciechowski (@I_Wojciechowski) November 11, 2020Nimeni nu a fost rănit în incendiu, pompierii locali confirmând că a fost cauzat de un foc de artificii. De asemenea, unii dintre cei implicaţi în proteste au blocat drumurile din apropierea stadionului național din Varșovia, unde a fost înființat un spital temporar pentru pacienții cu Covid-19, a mai spus poliția.

Persons: Potem, Piotr Drabik, Pawła, Tomasz, Poniatowski, Panowie Organizations: Gaulle’a Locations: Varșovia, BUCUREŞTI, ronda, Honor, prostactwo

☆ Fact Check-Polish TV clip with map of Ukraine dates to 2014 and shows Russian politician’s proposal
▼ + stars: | 2014-04-12 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A Polish news report from 2014 about a Russian politician’s proposal to divide Ukraine is being falsely claimed online to show coverage in 2023 of a plan to create “historically correct boundaries”. It shows a shrinking map of Ukraine as the border with Russia recedes from the east, and the borders with Poland, Hungary and Romania recede from the west. Poland’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson in 2014, Marcin Wojciechowski, dismissed the letter at the time as a “complete oddity”, according to Reuters here ). The video is from 2014 and is taken from a report about a Russian politician’s proposal to divide Ukraine. Poland’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the proposal as a “complete oddity”.

Search resuls for: "Wojciechowski"

9 mentions found