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Colombian court recognizes environmental refugees
A Colombian court has ruled that environmental calamities, sudden or gradual, can legally be considered a cause of forced displacement, placing obligations on...
Canada’s finance minister: $5B just a start for Indigenous loan guarantee program
The $5-billion announced for an Indigenous loan guarantee program in Canada's 2024 budget is just a start: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland
Tesla’s quarterly revenue falls for the first time since 2020
Tesla's revenue fell in the first quarter as it handed over fewer electric vehicles to customers due to slowing demand and intense competition...
‘Five Eyes’ working to fight critical minerals dumping: Canada’s finance minister
Canada and its Five Eyes Alliance partners are working on put forward a response to tackle the price manipulation of critical metals: Finance...
Tesla to lay off more than 3,000 employees in California, notices show
Tesla is set to cut 3,332 jobs in California, the electric-vehicle maker said in multiple Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices.
Talks on global plastic treaty begin in Canada
During talks in Kenya in November, a draft agreement leapt from 30 to 70 pages, with oil-producing nations such as Saudi Arabia recording...
AI boom to fuel natural gas demand in coming years: analysis
A spike in power usage from artificial intelligence data centers could significantly boost natural gas demand in the second half of the decade:...
Russia cuts crude oil export price forecast to $65 per barrel in 2024-27
The Russian economy ministry has downgraded its forecasts for the country's crude oil export prices for the next three years to $65 per...
Oil and gas producer Ithaca Energy to buy Eni’s UK assets for about $940 million
Eni, Italy's biggest energy company, had given North Sea oil and gas producer Ithaca Energy a four-week exclusivity period to make an offer...
German climate activists sentenced for spraying paint on Brandenburg Gate
The activists were supporters of the "Last Generation" climate activists group, which had made headlines in Germany with hundreds of road blocks by...
