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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: 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 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...

An Indigenous group that opposed the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline is urging banks and investors not to help finance a proposed second phase of the project. The terminus for the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline is seen at the LNG Canada export terminal under construction in Kitimat, B.C., Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs urge banks to snub TC Energy bonds

Hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation of B.C. have written an open letter to Canada's biggest banks and investors urging them to...

Climeworks sucks carbon dioxide from the air and stocks it underground in Iceland (AFP)
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Carbon capture must quadruple by 2050 to meet climate targets: report

By 2050, humanity must durably remove four times as much CO2 from the air as today to cap global warming below the crucial...

Green Tories call for their party to deliver environmental policies (Andrew Matthews/PA)
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UK Green Tories urge their party not to cede environmental leadership to the left

Britain's Green Tories have urged their party to build on Conservative environmental successes with a raft of proposals to boost nature and tackle...

Alberta's New Democrat Opposition says the province's energy minister is undermining the independence of its supposedly arm's-length energy regulator and telling it what to do. Brian Jean stands with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith after being sworn into cabinet as Jobs, Economy and Northern Development in Edmonton, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Frans
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Alberta government reducing independence of province’s energy regulator: Opposition

Alberta's New Democrat Opposition says the province's energy minister is undermining the independence of its supposedly arm's-length energy regulator and telling it what...

FILE PHOTO: A view of production at Stellantis' new electrified dual-clutch transmission (eDCT) assembly facility in the Mirafiori complex in Turin,Italy, April 10,2024. REUTERS/Massimo Pinca/File Photo
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Stellantis sees Italian plants running at full capacity in 2030

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares says the automaker had given reassurance to unions about its production plans until the start of the next decade,...

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