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FILE PHOTO: Consumers shop at a weekly street market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes/File Photo
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Brazil’s government hikes 2024 GDP forecast, sees higher inflation

Brazil's Finance Ministry on Thursday hiked its projection for economic growth this year but also raised inflation estimates for 2024 and 2025, underlining...

FILE PHOTO: Miners and utility workers protest demanding the government to amend its commitments to the EU, for the coal phase-out and for cutting greenhouse gas emissions of the energy sector by 40% by 2025, in Sofia, Bulgaria, January 12, 2023. REUTERS/Spasiyana Sergieva
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How Europe reduced its greenhouse gas emissions last year

EU countries churned out 3.4 billion tons of all greenhouse gas emissions last year, 5.1% less than in 2022

FILE PHOTO: A fully-electric Toyota Hilux Revo pickup truck as a public transportation vehicle is seen in the Thai seaside town of Pattaya, Chonburi province, Thailand, April 25, 2024. REUTERS/Artorn Pookasook/File Photo
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Toyota tests EV pickup truck ahead of mass production in Thailand

Toyota is testing the new battery-electric Hilux pickup truck to assess its performance in different conditions, with production due in 2025

FILE PHOTO: Employees work on a production line manufacturing mechanical parts, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a factory of SMC Corporation, during an organised media tour, in Beijing, China January 10, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo
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Chinese overcapacity claims are ‘trade protectionism’, ministry says

Growing alarm over Chinese industrial overcapacity flooding the EU with cheap products is opening a new front in the trade war with Beijing

FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind power lines above the plains north of Amarillo, Texas, U.S., March 14, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
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US Southwest, Texas at risk of power shortfalls this summer: regulator

The U.S. Southwest and Texas are at increased risk of power supply shortfalls during times of peak demand this summer due to rising...

Student ambassador Marilyn Chavez, in foreground, talks with a faculty member at the California Center for Climate Change Education on the West Los Angeles College campus in Culver City, Calif., Tuesday, March 12, 2024. As students consider jobs that play a role in solving the climate crisis, they’re looking for meaningful climate training and community colleges are responding. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Clean energy training boom as climate-related jobs expand in US

Community colleges across America give courses in EV repair and wind turbines as green industry hopes to hire homegrown talent.

The report came from the Institute for Public Policy Research (PA)
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Long-term plan needed to harness UK’s green industries, researchers say

Heat pumps, electric trains and turbines make up UK green industry specialisms, says report that calls on government for long-term plan.

U.S. President Joe Biden acknowledges White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford, at a reception celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, U.S., May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/ File Photo
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Analysis: Biden’s new China tariff wall faces leakage via Mexico, Vietnam

Analysis: The Biden administration's new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and other strategic sectors will likely accelerate a shift of Chinese production to...

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Cepsa selects thyssenkrupp nucera as preferred supplier of a 300-MW electrolyzer for a green hydrogen plant in Spain

thyssenkrupp nucera has received an award to provide a basic engineering design package, utilizing scalum® modules, for a new green hydrogen plant Integration...

FILE PHOTO: Protesters gather in front of the Royal Castle during a protest of Polish farmers against the European Union's Green Deal ahead of EU parliamentary elections, in Warsaw, Poland May 10, 2024. Robert Kowalewski /Agencja Wyborcza.pl via REUTERS
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Polish farmers begin hunger strike over EU Green Deal

Five Polish farmers have gone on hunger strike over European Union environmental regulations they say are driving them out of business.

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