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'This price must be paid': Activist Daniel has been assaulted and prosecuted (AFP)
AgricultureAnalysisBiodiversityEnvironmentIndigenousMiningOilPoliticsResiliency

Three activists risking their lives for the planet

Three activists face violence opposing wildcat gold mining in Ecuador, illegal shrimp farming in Indonesia, and oil in Uganda.

FILE PHOTO: Storage tanks are seen at Marathon Petroleum's Los Angeles Refinery, which processes domestic & imported crude oil in Carson, California, U.S., March 11, 2022. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo
BusinessFuelNewsOil

Oil slips for first day in three ahead of Fed decision

Oil prices fall despite US inventories increase, with tensions in the Middle East and potential US interest rate cut looming over markets.

Visitors gather around an electric Scania truck by the Swedish carmaker at the IAA truck show in Hanover, Germany, September 17, 2024. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
AutomotiveElectric Vehicles (EVs)NewsTransport

Truckmakers ready to go electric, but what about charging?

Major truck manufacturers say they are ready to go electric, but call for massive investments in charging infrastructure.

FILE PHOTO: Car miniature, "Electric vechicles (EVs)" words, EU and Chinese flags are seen in this illustration taken, September 26, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo
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EVs could reach 24% EU car market share by 2025

Battery-electric cars (BEVs) sold in the European Union are set to reach a market share of 20-24% by 2025.

FILE PHOTO: An employee works on solar panels at the QCells solar energy manufacturing factory in Dalton, Georgia, U.S., March 2, 2023. REUTERS/Megan Varner/File Photo
ElectricityNewsSolar

US solar jobs rise 6% in 2023, study says

Jobs in the U.S. solar industry rose 6% last year to nearly 280,000.

FILE PHOTO: COP 29 President, Mukhtar Babayev, delivers remarks at the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial, in Helsingor, Denmark, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Ali Withers/File Photo
ClimateEmissionsNewsPoliticsUnited Nations

COP29 leaders unveil climate funding and energy storage goals

The Azerbaijani leadership has laid out its plans for what it hoped to achieve in COP29

FILE PHOTO: A worker walks by an oil well at the Toma South oil field to Heglig, in Ruweng State, South Sudan August 25, 2018. REUTERS/Jok Solomun/File photo
NewsOilPolitics

South Sudan ‘ready to restart pumping oil through Sudan’

South Sudan and Sudan have made progress towards restarting the pumping of South Sudan's crude oil to a Sudan port.

Ovo Energy is the latest energy supplier to launch a winter support scheme (Jacob King/PA)
BusinessEconomyElectricityFuelNewsPolitics

Ovo launches £50m of fresh energy bills support after winter fuel payment cut

Temporary payment cuts, subsidised home upgrades and more planned as British energy firm shores up older customers after government aid cut.

Uncertainty around the US election outcome is weighing on climate negotiators ahead of the UN-led COP29 talks in November (AFP)
BusinessClimate FinanceElectionsNewsPolitics

Trump stalks global climate talks as COP29 draws near

Other countries 'holding back' on financial commitments at preliminary talks for COP29, given lack of certainty over Trump and Harris showdown.

The COP16 isn't expected to break new ground but is more a stocktake of progress since the last summit (AFP)
BiodiversityClimateEmissionsEnvironmentNewsPoliticsUnited Nations

Environment takes centre stage as global summits loom

The United Nations is about to host four major events to address environmental challenges.

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