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Azerbaijan craters its own climate conference

The world’s countries have to agree on a new long-term funding target to replace the current goal of $100 billion a year. This money,...

US quietly abandons push for sharper cuts in climate pollution

Like the Paris Agreement itself, the U.S.-led call would have been non-binding. However such international statements can still have a real-world impact. They signal...

Azerbaijan president lauds fossil fuels, knifes Western ‘hypocrisy’ in COP29 opener

A Commission spokesperson did not comment on Aliyev's speech. The European Union has been pushing hard for the Baku talks to reiterate and strengthen...

How Teresa Ribera became the second-most powerful person in Brussels

Elsewhere, Luxembourg's EPP politician Christophe Hansen is in line for the agriculture portfolio, providing another potential counterweight to Ribera, who wants the agriculture industry...

‘Cruisezilla 2050’ could make Titanic look like a ‘fishing boat’

Despite carrying 36 million passengers a year, cruise ships are currently exempt from fuel duties and...

Venezuela’s Maduro just tightened his grip on power. What comes next?

After years of turmoil, Venezuela held national elections on Sunday. Voters of various political affiliations hoped the contest would put an end to the...

Labour should stop seeing drivers as cash cows and should leave fuel duty alone

THE Chancellor will today unveil what she says is a £20billion black hole in the public finances left by the Tories.Rises in capital gains...

EU imposes tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles

Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest carmaker, warns extra duties will not strengthen Europe’s auto industry.The European Union has imposed extra duties of up to 37.6 percent...

A new approach to infrastructure could transform Asia Pacific

Perhaps nowhere else is this imperative stronger than in Asia, home to three-fifths of the world’s population, that is both young and growing at a...

The scramble for Antarctica’s black gold: How Russian discovery of huge oil reserves in UK territory has made Falkland Islands the ‘world’s most valuable...

Deep beneath the harsh wasteland of the Antarctic shelf lies a prize hundreds of millions of years in the making.For more than 150 years,...

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