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TOKYO, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Japan aims to spend over 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) on green transformation to promote local production of storage batteries, semiconductors and equipment to produce …
Japan eyes over $14 bln in green transformation spending – govt Read More
Bonn, 12th June 2023: The globally-agreed mission to curtail climate change will be impossible unless national & sub-national governments and the largest companies urgently strengthen their targets, reports the Net Zero …
Net zero targets among world’s largest companies double, but credibility gaps undermine progress Read More
New EU rules restricting government borrowing would prevent all but four European countries from investing enough to meet their Paris climate commitments and limit global heating to 1.5C, according to …
Half of Europe unable to spend enough to meet climate targets under current borrowing rules Read More
LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) – Zurich Insurance Group (ZURN.S) said on Wednesday it was withdrawing from the Net Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), becoming the second founding member to quit the climate group …
Zurich Insurance becomes second firm to quit climate alliance Read More
Climate change is generating major economic problems in the United States, the Biden administration said in an annual report published this week. The assumptions that higher-income countries like the U.S. would …
Climate change could spur severe economic losses, Biden administration says Read More
French President Emmanuel Macron snatched an unexpected win from his U.S counterpart during a visit to Washington on Thursday, getting Joe Biden to suggest that European companies could benefit from a …
Trade war averted? Macron gets Biden to ‘tweak’ his industrial subsidies Read More
Herman E. Daly, an economist who envisioned a new practice of his field, a discipline known as ecological economics in which growth is not an unquestioned good and the impact …
Herman Daly, professor who introduced ecology to economics, dies at 84 Read More
India today is the world’s fourth largest renewable energy (RE) country and fifth largest in terms of installed solar capacity. In early February, solar installations crossed the 50 GW milestone, …
A transformational budget for transitional economy Read More
Two controversial new projects propose laying thousands of miles of pipe through America’s Corn Belt, carrying liquid carbon dioxide across five states, from Iowa to the Dakotas, where they’d wind …
The Oil Industry’s New Climate Change Solution Is More Pipelines Read More
The huge amount of money poured into the pandemic recovery—around $16 trillion, by the latest count—could have helped launch the world on a path to cut emissions quickly enough to …
Only 2% of the pandemic recovery goes to clean energy Read More