Saturday, 22 February 2025
Home Author Virginia Furness

Virginia Furness

FILE PHOTO: A man washes waste plastic sheets, collected for recycling, in the polluted waters on World Environment Day in Karachi, Pakistan June 5, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/File Photo
BusinessEnvironmentFinanceNews

Finance firms urge ambitious action on plastic pollution

A group of 160 financial companies urged governments to agree a treaty to end plastic pollution that would help spur private sector action

By Virginia Furness and Simon Jessop18 Apr 2024Reuters
AutomotiveBusinessElectric Vehicles (EVs)NewsTransport

IKEA Foundation backs emerging market EV push with $100 million grant

A global initiative to accelerate EV uptake has received a $100 million funding boost from the IKEA Foundation to support developing countries transition...

By Simon Jessop and Virginia Furness2 Apr 2024Reuters

Latest on Kathari

First Minister John Swinney was shown a hydrogen gas cooker during the visit (Jane Barlow/PA)

Swinney: Hydrogen-powered home is ‘exciting’ development in climate change fight

3 Feb 2025UK PA Media
FILE - People walk amid an oil spill in the Niger Delta in village of Ogboinbiri, Nigeria, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Nigeria moves to restart oil production in vulnerable region after Shell sells much of its business

3 Feb 2025The Associated Press
FILE PHOTO: A general view of a Tesla store in Porsgrunn, Norway, December 24, 2021. REUTERS/Victoria Klesty/File Photo

Tesla loses market share in Sweden, Norway as Musk looms large

3 Feb 2025Reuters
Norway aims for all new cars sold to be 'zero emission' starting in 2025, which is 10 years ahead of the goal set by the European Union (AFP)

Norway nears 100% goal of all-electric cars

3 Feb 2025Agence France-Presse

Most Viewed on Kathari

FILE PHOTO: Oil pumpjacks and tanks are pictured in a farmer's field near Kindersley, Saskatchewan, Canada September 5, 2024. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo

US oil imports from Canada hit record ahead of tariff threat, EIA data shows

8 Jan 2025Reuters
dian oil and gas stocks climbed Monday as the country's energy sector absorbed the news of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's resignation. Pumpjacks draw out oil and gas from wells near Calgary on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Canadian oil stocks climb as industry absorbs news of Trudeau resignation

6 Jan 2025The Canadian Press

Australia needs better ways of storing renewable electricity for later. That’s where ‘flow batteries’ can help

4 Jan 2025The Conversation
Solar car port generating green electricity with cars parked at a parkade at the Telus Science Center in Calgary, Alta., on Oct. 30, 2024. (Ramon Cliff/Alamy via Reuters)

Learn from Canada’s world-leading battery energy storage production for transport

19 Dec 2024Kathari News

Login into your Account

Please login to like, dislike or bookmark this article.