About 90 per cent of global trade moves by sea, and Boston-based CargoMetrics uses VHF radio transmissions to track the movements of more than 120,000 ships across the world, monitoring where they dock to gauge their type and size of cargo. The data are used to trade commodity prices and, occasionally, currencies and stocks via automated algorithms.
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The Arctic Circle is an organization founded by former President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, former Alaska Dispatch Publisher Alice Rogoff, former Premier of Greenland Kuupik Kleist and other partners. The organization's mission is to facilitate dialogue among political and business leaders, environmental experts, scientists, indigenous representatives, and other international stakeholders to address issues facing the Arctic as a result of climate change and melting sea ice.[1] The Arctic Circle styles itself as an international organization with a Secretariat based in Reykjavik, Iceland.[2]
Speakers to have attended the Arctic Circle Assembly have included Ban Ki-moon, Nicola Sturgeon, Aleqa Hammond, Lisa Murkowski, Philippe Couillard, and François Hollande, who delivered a keynote speech at the 2015 Assembly as President of France. During his speech, Hollande discussed the importance of the Arctic as an arena for international climate action.[13] Situating the Arctic on the front lines of anthropogenic planetary warming, President Hollande expressed optimism that global leaders would make an agreement on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions at the then-upcoming 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, and urged global leaders to strengthen their commitments towards an accord, given the remaining progress that must be made before the conference.[14]
Angela Merkel,[15] Hillary Clinton,[16] Philip Hammond,[17] Al Gore[18] and José Ángel Gurría[19] have addressed the Assembly via video messages.
Dutch police discover 'underworld' prison with torture chamber in shipping containers
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