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Mark Carney, the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, attends The Museum of American Finance Gala, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City, U.S., March 7, 2024. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/ File Photo
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US House committee grills Carney, Schapiro in push against climate coalitions

US lawmakers' committee interviews with GFANZ leaders Carney and Schapiro in escalation of push against coalitions to tackle climate change

Solar panels in the northern town of Boundiali in Ivory Coast stretch across 36 hectares (89 acres) (AFP)
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Ivory Coast bets on solar in clean energy drive

Ivory Coast has pledged to increase its renewable energy to 45%, including 9% solar, and to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30%

FILE PHOTO: Turkey's Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz speaks during a press conference to unveil a savings measures package in Ankara, Turkey, May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo
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Turkey to implement national emissions-trading system soon, vice president says

Turkey will soon implement a national emissions-trading system in line with the EU Green Deal, Turkish VP Cevdet Yilmaz said on Friday

FILE PHOTO: General view of Aramco's oil field in the Empty Quarter, Shaybah, Saudi Arabia, January 12, 2024. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo
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Saudi Arabia set to raise $11.2bn in Aramco lower priced share offer

Saudi Arabia is poised to raise more than $11.2bn from its secondary offering of oil giant Aramco's lower priced shares

FILE PHOTO: A sign of battery manufacturer CATL is pictured at its booth at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Beijing, China, April 25, 2024. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo
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US lawmakers call to add China’s CATL, Gotion to import ban list, WSJ reports

Chinese battery companies CATL and Gotion High Tech should be added immediately to an import ban list, a group of Republican lawmakers said

This aerial photo taken on Nov. 13, 2023, by Archaeology Southwest with a volunteer pilot and Lighthawk, a nonprofit organization, shows new access roads and tower pad sites west of the San Pedro River, near Redrock Canyon, in Arizona. A U.S. district judge has dismissed claims by Native American tribes and environmentalists who sought to halt construction along part of a $10 billion energy transmission line. (Archaeology Southwest via AP)
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Challenge to $10B SunZia energy transmission project dismissed

A US judge has dismissed Native American tribes and environmentalists who sought to halt construction of a $10bn energy transmission line

Wilma Abanil arranges clothes inside her house at the coastal village of Santa Clara near a liquified natural gas power plant in Batangas province, Philippines on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. Abanil witnessed changes after the first plant opened in 2002. Within two years, the fish catch was falling, she said. It grew worse as more plants opened. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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The Philippines goes all in for natural gas, a climate pollutant

Liquified natural gas is a booming business in the Philippines, despite experts warning the country is most vulnerable to climate change.

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The History of Carbon Dioxide Emissions

The World Resources Institute studied historical emissions trends, as well as major drivers of increasing emissions, such as population growth, economic development and...

FILE PHOTO: Cars of ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation) and IBAMA (Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) are seen near a fire in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil November 21, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo
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Fires in Brazilian wetlands surge 980%, extreme drought expected

Fires in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands have surged nearly tenfold so far this year to the highest levels since 2020, when the biome suffered...

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Uranium fuel planned for high-tech US reactors a weapons risk, scientists say

A special uranium fuel planned for next-generation U.S. nuclear reactors poses security risks because it could be used without further enrichment as fissile...

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