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🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | News of the global climate crisis can leave us feeling helpless. |
| 0:05.0 | Too much negativity can trigger our eco-anxiety, |
| 0:08.0 | leaving us paralyzed when we need to act. |
| 0:11.0 | This is why EONNEXT is in search of better news to power up for change. |
| 0:16.0 | According to a CBI report, the transition to a greener economy is boosting UK growth, |
| 0:22.0 | with 71 billion pounds of jobs and investment being brought to the UK's industrial towns. |
| 0:28.0 | If you're feeling impacted by eco-anxiety, EONNEXT have created a range of resources such as green noise soundscapes. |
| 0:36.0 | Just search power up for change in your podcasting app. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 0:52.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:59.0 | Paul Rousseis-Abaginat, an activist who saved 1200 lives during Rwanda's genocide, |
| 1:05.0 | was charged with terrorism this week. |
| 1:08.0 | How was it he was lured out of exile? What will happen to him now? |
| 1:12.0 | Rwanda's leadership faces many hard questions. |
| 1:16.0 | And you'd think that the European single market would cause consumer prices to converge across the block. |
| 1:23.0 | You'd be wrong. Our correspondent bravely charged the costs of nappies to reveal the shortcomings of Europe's allegedly level playing field. |
| 1:38.0 | But first... |
| 1:40.0 | We're here to present the content of the plan. |
| 1:45.0 | Yesterday in Paris, French Prime Minister Jean Castex unveiled the country's coronavirus recovery plan, |
| 1:52.0 | just as daily new infections neared an all-time high. |
| 1:56.0 | The stimulus was the first to be announced by a big economy since the European Union agreed a 750 billion Euro recovery fund in July. |
| 2:06.0 | The plan is focused primarily on boosting companies and is due to run over two years. |
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