The vast majority of the world’s largest transport companies, including General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and British Airways owner IAG SA, are taking insufficient action to limit global warming to within 2 degrees Celsius.
For tricky distribution regions, remote-control aircraft could be the answer — having already worked well delivering medicine in hard-to-reach parts of Africa and Canada.
Thirty-one countries around the globe have reserved more COVID-19 vaccine per capita than the U.S., according to an analysis of country vaccine agreements.
The split from the European Union is fueling an increasingly frenzied demand for goods, creating traffic snarl-ups at ports and highways on both sides of the English Channel and leading to at least one major factory shutdown.
Fidelity International is calling for urgent action to address the humanitarian crisis and supply-chain risks caused by the more than 400,000 seafarers who are stranded aboard vessels and a similar number who remain ashore with little prospect for work or pay.
A lobbying group that represents consumer-goods companies says the industry’s employees need priority access to a vaccine as rising COVID-19-related absenteeism strains manufacturing capabilities.