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FILE PHOTO: Smoke and steam billow from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant powered by lignite, operated by Polish utility PGE, in Rogowiec, Poland, November 22, 2023. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo
ClimateCoalEmissionsLegislationLiquefied Natural GasNewsPoliticsRegulations

G7 agree deal to quit coal by 2035, but with caveat

G7 energy ministers agreed on Tuesday to end the use of coal in power generation "during the first half of (the) 2030s"

MPs urged the Government to introduce a statutory requirement for local authorities to protect green space (Victoria Jones/PA)
ClimateEmissionsNewsPoliticsWeather

UK Government has ‘unanswered questions’ on heat resilience

The Environmental Audit Committee said the British Government’s response to its report on heatwave resilience and sustainable cooling “falls short”.

File photo: A view shows production and expiration dates on the bottles of Pepsi inside a refrigerator at a gym in central Moscow, Russia September 20, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Marrow/File photo
BiodiversityBusinessNews

Norway’s wealth fund backs bid for PepsiCo study of biodiversity risk

PepsiCo biodiversity analysis backed by food giant's seventh-largest shareholder, as the issue gains more importance to investors.

Rishi Sunak rowed back on some of the UK’s climate policies in a speech last year, which Climate Change Committee chief Chris Stark said had ‘set us back’ (Stefan Rousseau/PA)
EmissionsNewsPolitics

PM Sunak ‘set us back’ on net zero, head of climate watchdog warns

Chris Stark says Rishi Sunak's watering down of net zero ambitions has made it "difficult to recover" the UK's reputation for climate action.

The sun sets over Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station near Nottingham (Matthew Vincent/PA)
ElectricityFuelNewsTransmission

UK share of power from gas and coal hits hour-long record low of 2.4%

Statistics show burning of fossil fuels makes up a decreasing amount of UK electricity generation as country pursues 100% zero carbon power goals.

The project will be built off the coast of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire (Ben Birchall/PA)
ElectricityNewsWind

World’s biggest floating offshore wind farm gets go-ahead in Scotland

Green Volt wind farm will boast up to 35 floating turbines and provide 560 megawatts of energy off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

An electric car being charged (John Walton/PA)
ClimateNewsPolitics

Net zero does not mean ‘huge shift’ in everyday lives, top climate adviser says

UK net zero advisor says the idea of a radically different lifestyle has been pushed too hard as he suggests Britain is lagging...

Broadcaster Chris Packham and members of the Axe Drax campaign group protesting outside the Drax AGM (Merry Dickinson/PA)
BiodiversityBusinessElectricityNews

Climate protesters target BP and Drax shareholder meetings

Drax and BP climate protests see British activists target shareholder meetings to make their point.

A man works on a tent for NXP Semiconductors in preparation for the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on January 4, 2015.   REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo
AutomotiveBusinessIndustryNews

NXP Semiconductors forecasts Q2 profit above estimates

Industrial and IoT revenue grows for Dutch chipmaker, but automotive market starting to see inventory build-up.

FILE PHOTO: The Anglo American logo is seen in Rusternburg October 5, 2015. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
BusinessMiningNews

Takeover rules to prevent Anglo from saying much on bid at AGM

Anglo American takeover bid unlikely to be discussed in mining company's AGM due to British law, while BHP considers better offer.

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