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This photo released by the Brazilian Presidency shows destroyed houses in southern Brazil on June 6, 2024. The country has been battered by a series of extreme weather events, most recently once-in-a-century flooding in the state of Rio Grande do Sul that left more than 170 people dead. (Brazilian Presidency)
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Climate ‘cloud seeding’ misinformation overshadows record floods worldwide

Climate skeptics are scapegoating a weather modification technique known as cloud seeding to deny the role of global warming in historic floods that...

FILE PHOTO: A drone view shows vehicles partially underwater in a courtyard of the State Traffic Department during floods in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
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World Bank board agrees to host climate ‘loss and damage’ fund

World Bank has, in principle, approved plans to create a fund to help cover the impact of extreme weather events

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X looks on during the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 6, 2024.  REUTERS/David Swanson/File Photo
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Some Nordic retail brokers allow clients to vote at Tesla AGM

Elon Musk is seeking support from shareholders over his proposed $56 billion pay package

Tesla has urged shareholders to vote in favor of CEO Elon Musk's huge pay plan after a Delaware judge struck it down (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA)
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Tesla turns up charm ahead of investor vote on huge Musk pay plan

Tesla has called the vote on CEO Elon Musk's giant pay package a do-or-die moment for the company.

Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, U.S. April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Drone Base/File Photo
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Oil prices extend rally on potential U.S. crude purchase for reserve

Investors are waiting to see how changing oil prices could hit demand

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COP29 climate hosts say they’ll keep expanding fossil fuels

The incoming president of the COP29 UN climate summit in Azerbaijan says his country will keep increasing fossil fuel production "in parallel" with...

FILE PHOTO: Dump trucks haul coal and sediment at the Black Butte coal mine outside Rock Springs, Wyoming, U.S. April 4, 2017.  REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File Photo
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Major world economies seek to halt new private sector coal financing

World's major economies looking to finalise a plan ahead of UN climate summit to halt new private sector funding for coal projects.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden views a Jeep Wrangler Willy's 4xe during a visit to the Detroit Auto Show to highlight electric vehicle manufacturing in America, in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., September 14, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
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How Biden’s emissions rules go soft on hybrid trucks, SUVs

Biden's auto-emissions regulations made concessions to industry allowing for a slower EV transition than it had originally proposed.

FILE PHOTO: A drone view shows bifacial 540 W solar panels at a solar panels park by energy supplier Enel Green Power, in Trino, Italy, March 5, 2024. REUTERS/Claudia Greco/File Photo
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IEA expects global clean energy investment to hit $2 trillion in 2024

Global investment in clean energy technology and infrastructure is set to hit $2tn, twice the amount going into fossil fuels, IEA report shows

Solar panel costs have decreased by 30 percent over the past two years, the IEA said (AFP)
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Solar investment outstrips all other power forms: IEA

Solar investments are set to reach half a trillion dollars this year, the world's top energy research body said Thursday

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