Trump may cede global climate leadership to China

After a campaign featuring promises to slash landmark climate legislation and a first term record that included pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, President-elect Donald Trump's win casts a shadow of doubt over the world of global climate policy.

China is looking to "play a more Proactive role internationally on climate change," said Joanna Lewis, an associate professor at Georgetown University and expert in international climate policy.

Trump might even pull out of the entire United Nations framework convention on climate change process which the Paris agreement is a part of. as an isolationist, Trump-Led American foreign policy Cedes global leadership on the issue, an increasingly willing China can assume the spot instead.

But it would be a mistake for the United States to completely cede not just its leadership role on climate change. the development of low carbon technologies, that's really the area that has been particularly competitive between China and the United States.

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Trump tapped Elon Musk to oversee government efficiency. Here's how he's cut costs at his own companies.

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Elon musk and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy have been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to Co-Lead a new Department of government efficiency to reduce government spending. musk is known for modeling an intense work ethic and making drastic workforce reductions to lower costs at companies like X, Tesla, and Spacex.

One longtime Tesla executive who quit in August wrote on Linkedin that working there was "extraordinary" but "not for the faint of heart." musk, X, Tesla, and Spacex did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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1. businessinsider - Trump tapped Elon Musk to oversee government efficiency. Here's how he's cut costs at his own companies.

Smart toilet, AI platform among tech in use at drugmaker Eli Lilly’s new $42m hub in S’pore

Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has launched a $42M Digital health innovation Hub in Singapore, which aims to make clinical trials more comfortable for participants and improve the quality of medical research.

The centre, which has 49 beds for Early-Stage human clinical trials for new drugs, devices and treatments, is the company's only internal phase 1 clinical trial unit globally.

Among the innovations is an artificial intelligence (ai) model developed by Lilly called Magnol.Ai, a cloud platform that collects data from Wearables and sensors used by test participants.

The program helps researchers crunch massive amounts of data collected into simple charts for them to analyze. Much of the process of data entry by clinical trial participants has also been digitalized through a mobile App.

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