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The Rise of Micro Multinationals

Small Business Labs

This is up from about 30,000 in 2009. trillion by 2025.  A study recently issued by eBay reports that in the last year 190,000 U.S. small businesses that use their platform export to multiple countries and continents.   If these sites even come close to creating $2.7

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A quick explainer for COP26 — here’s how climate negotiations work and what’s at stake

Ideas.Ted

One key goal of COP26 is to ratchet up these targets to reach net zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century. Wealthy countries promised in 2009 to contribute $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing nations, a goal that has not been reached. degrees Celsius. The cost of failure is astronomical.