The British government has promised to invest 21.7 billion pounds in carbon capture projects.Microsoft shareholders voted against the bitcoin investment proposal, and the voting results showed that Microsoft's major shareholders opposed the company's bitcoin investment proposal on Tuesday. Earlier, Microsoft's board of directors urged shareholders to reject a suggestion from the National Center for Public Policy Research that the company invest 1% of its total assets in Bitcoin to hedge against inflation. At the annual meeting, Michael Seiler, chairman of MicroStrategy, gave a three-minute speech, trying to persuade Microsoft shareholders to support this proposal. His company has invested billions of dollars in bitcoin. The data shows that the largest shareholder of Microsoft is institutional investors, including Pioneer Pilot and BlackRock.The Group of Seven is expected to support the transitional government of Syria, Qatar, to get in touch with the new leaders, and the leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) will be willing to support the new Syrian government, provided that the transitional process respects minorities, and Qatar has become one of the first countries to establish communication with the armed groups that overthrew the Assad regime. According to the draft announcement that the G-7 plans to issue later this week, the G-7 "hopes that all opposition groups seeking to play a role in Syrian governance will show their commitment to the rights of all Syrians". The Group of Seven will say that this group of countries, including the United States, wants to see the safe return of millions of Syrians who fled under Assad. Many of them flooded into G-7 countries such as Germany after the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011.
White House: We are discussing with Turkey the current situation of detention facilities in Syria and our concerns about the possibility of opening these facilities.White House: We are trying our best to learn about journalist Austin Tess (who was kidnapped while reporting in Syria on August 13th, 2012).According to informed sources, Saudi sovereign wealth funds are close to reaching an agreement on investing in PGA Tour Enterprises.
The STOXX 600 index in Europe fell by 0.5% to 518.58 points.The CEO of Huaping said that he saw an opportunity to invest in financial services companies.United Nations report: Three quarters of the earth's land is gradually dry due to climate change. The 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP 16) was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from December 2 to 13. On the 9th, the United Nations released a report during the meeting, saying that about three-quarters of the world's land has gradually become dry due to climate change. The report found that in the 30 years before 2020, about 77.6% of the world's land became drier than before. At present, except Antarctica, the dry land area accounts for about 40% of the global land area. Between 1990 and 2020 alone, the global dry land area increased by 4.3 million square kilometers.