Pharmaceuticals

• [New] The mere threat of violence has affected Asian Americans' sense of safety and belonging in ways that they will not soon forget.
• [New] The United States will adopt rules to import prescription drugs from other countries to help lower drug prices.
• [New] General Motors has committed $27 billion to the development of all-electric and autonomous vehicles and plans to sell only electric vehicles by 2035.
• [New] As governments around the world look to expand non-fossil power generation, hydro is expected to see strong business opportunities in the coming years.
• [New] The independently audited disclosures mark the first time Airbus has published an estimate of the carbon emissions its commercial planes will generate.
• [New] The Food and Drug Administration's vaccine advisers have officially recommended that Johnson & Johnson's Janssen single-shot COVID-19 vaccine receive an Emergency Use Authorization, which will make it the first single-shot vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in the US.
• [New] Nielsen Sports is predicting that the average social media value for the top eight NBA teams could surpass the TV media value generated by the 2023/24 season.
• [New] Japan will strengthen efforts to support Asian countries' shift from coal to liquefied natural gas for use in power generation to reduce carbon emissions, in the hope of lowering procurement costs for the energy source.
• [New] Promoting investment in innovation will generate new job growth and pave the way for technological breakthroughs and life-saving cures that will improve the quality of life for Americans.
• [New] China will be more powerful than the United States within a decade, and most see Germany as a more important partner and international leader than the U.S.
• [New] The government of Kazakhstan has committed to increase the share of renewable energy in domestic electricity generation to 10% by 2030 and 50% by 2050.
• [New] Virginia outbid North and South Carolina to bring advanced recycling company Braven Environmental to the state, where it plans to invest $31.7 million in a manufacturing facility in Cumberland County.
• [New] Failure to agree a waiver would mean that a few major pharmaceutical companies will be able to prevent other manufacturers from producing Covid-19 vaccines, impeding the EU's efforts to scale up production at home and the manufacturing of vaccines in developing countries around the world.
• [New] The general public, in particular young people, will have more opportunities to play football regularly and develop their potential, thereby contributing to the long-term development of football in Hong Kong.
• [New] The Food and Drug Administration is expected to soon grant an emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson's covid-19 vaccine, possibly as early as this weekend.
• [New] Dominion Energy South Carolina filed its modified integrated resource plan on Friday, including a preferred scenario that would retire its coal generation fleet by 2030, and convert its Cope Station coal plant to natural gas.
• [New] As general contractors worldwide take on more offsite construction projects and tackle the growing affordable housing crisis, they will face similar challenges around managing modular prototyping and production quality.
• [New] The U.S. could double its capacity for new wind and solar power, save billions of dollars and cut millions of tons of carbon-dioxide emissions from its generation fleets if federal incentives can be aligned to deploy a suite of technologies to unlock the full capacity of transmission grids.
• [New] Wind energy is a key focus for the UK Government with plans to generate 40 GW of electricity from offshore wind by 2030 - enough to power all UK homes and a 400% increase over 10 years.

Last updated: 02 March 2021