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Canada’s Agriculture Department without plan to meet climate targets: audit
Canada's environment commissioner found the federal agriculture Department has no strategy to meet 2030 or 2050 climate targets four years after it was...
Countries grapple with who should pay to tackle plastic pollution
Plastics treaty in Ottawa beset by question of how to raise $1.64 trillion needed to help reduce pollution, with countries split on where...
NXP Semiconductors forecasts Q2 profit above estimates
Industrial and IoT revenue grows for Dutch chipmaker, but automotive market starting to see inventory build-up.
Vietnam coffee farmers boost irrigation but running low on water: report
Coffee farmers in Vietnam have sharply increased use of irrigation in the main producing regions of the country amid excessive dryness, but they...
Plastics treaty talks gather steam amid impasse over production limits
Still divided over how ambitious its first plastics treaty should be, countries are considering launching a series of smaller meetings before a hoped-for...
G7 to commit to reducing plastic production: French ministry
The G7 follows negotiations in Canada on a global treaty to reduce plastic pollution. Plastics producers are pushing for more recycling while environmentalists...
As solar capacity grows, some of America’s most productive farmland is at risk
A renewable energy boom risks damaging some of America's richest soils in key farming states like Indiana, according to a Reuters analysis
Cap on production may be too complicated for global plastic treaty: Canada’s environment minister
Canada's Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the world can solve its plastic problem without insisting on hard caps on plastic production.
Italy sets conditions for Vitol’s takeover of oil refiner Saras
Oil refiner Saras's controlling shareholder - the Moratti family - said in February it had agreed to sell its stake to energy company...
‘Extreme’ climate blamed for world’s worst wine harvest in 62 years
World wine production dropped 10 percent last year, the biggest fall in more than six decades, because of "extreme" climate changes: International Organisation...
