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Kate Forbes said the SNP had ‘never said no’ to further licensing (Jane Barlow/PA)
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Scottish Deputy First Minister: SNP not against oil and gas licences

Scotland's Deputy First Minister has said the SNP is not against oil and gas licences, but developments would need to meet climate compatibility...

FILE PHOTO: Volvo EX90, the company's new electric SUV, is unveiled during a launch event in Stockholm, Sweden November 9, 2022. Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency/via REUTERS /File Photo
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Volvo Cars’ May sales rise 13%, boosted by electric vehicles

Volvo sales rose 13% from a year earlier, buoyed by a 27% jump in Europe and a strong performance by its fully electric...

FILE PHOTO: Gas flares are seen at the state-owned oil company PDVSA, in Punta de Mata, Venezuela April 5, 2023. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo
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West African nations call for firms to be able to offset carbon

A group of West African countries has weighed into a debate over whether companies should be allowed to use carbon offsets to cut...

FILE PHOTO: People cross a street in the Central Business District (CBD) on a polluted day in Beijing, China, March 10, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
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China plans new carbon measurement standards to boost climate efforts

China aims to establish a carbon footprint management system by 2027, to create a more unified system to measure carbon emissions

FILE PHOTO: NIO electric cars logo is seen in this illustration taken Jan. 16, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo
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EV maker Nio gets regulatory nod for third factory in China, sources say

EV maker Nio has won approval to build a third factory in China that would boost its total approved production capacity to 1...

FILE PHOTO: People shop ahead of the holy month of Ramadan at the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/ Abdel Hadi Ramahi/File Photo
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UAE’s non-oil business growth retains slower pace in May, PMI shows

Capacity constraints weighed on non-oil business activity in the UAE in May with output growth at its slowest in 16 months

FILE PHOTO: Saplings grown at the nursery of the nonprofit environmental group Rioterra, await planting to restore areas of a nearby rainforest, at the Jamari National Forest, in Itapua do Oeste, Rondonia state, Brazil, February 18, 2020.  REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini/File Photo
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Researchers – Carbon removal needs to quadruple to meet climate goals

Governments need to plant more trees and deploy technologies that will quadruple the CO2 removed each year, researchers said Wednesday

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm delivers a speech ahead of a conversation with Daniel Yergin, the vice chairman of S&P Global, during the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., March 8, 2023.  REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/File Photo
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Power-hungry data centers spur US talks with Big Tech, energy chief Granholm says

By Timothy Gardner, Valerie Volcovici and Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s administration is asking big technology companies to invest in new...

FILE - A woman is silhouetted against the setting sun as triple-digit heat indexes continue in the Midwest, Aug. 20, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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Earth warming ‘at record rate’, but climate change is ‘not accelerating’

Scientists have found that the rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023, but there is no evidence of accelerated climate...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks to reporters between votes at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2024. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/File Photo
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US Sen. Manchin says he’s encouraging industry to sue Treasury over EV tax credits

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin on Tuesday said he was urging U.S. companies to sue the Treasury Department over the local content rules it...

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