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Get the latest news and follow the coverage of breaking news events, local news, weird news, national and global politics, and more from the world’s top trusted media outlets. DAEGU, South Korea, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Coal will surpass oil as the key fuel for the global economy by 2020 despite government efforts to reduce carbon emissions, energy consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie said on Monday. The participatory, inclusive nature of the Internet, particularly social networks, has enabled First Globals to make their voices heard on a larger scale.

This year, we are joining with our partners at the United Nations Foundation and Social Good Summit to present GoodxGlobal , an inaugural day of social good programming at South by South West (SXSW), the nation’s seminal conference on technological and digital innovation.

Researchers found particularly striking that women athletes were pictured in 43 percent of the images pinned to Pinterest – yet another signal of the gains made by women in these Games which were the first in history in which all the participating countries included a woman athlete.

Most foreign companies are not making the most of international trade shows, as shown by the McKinsey Connectedness Index, which ranks 139 countries on the inflows and outflows of goods, services, finance, people and data. Roberts and I both spend a lot of electrons on two of the issues on which deadlock seems especially intractable: the need to confront global climate change and to shift away from fossil fuels.

These efforts by the electricity transmission companies appear to be losing steam as countries all over the world introduce green feed-in tariffs to encourage millions of end users to produce their own green electricity and share it across an Energy Internet.