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Energy and climate cooperation still key for China-EU ties
There’s much to gain from a deep partnership on the clean-energy transition
Climate agenda reset ahead of Brazil’s COP 30
With the entire COP process now in growing jeopardy, the country has the diplomatic challenge of a lifetime to make the event one that helps ensure long-lasting and transformative climate outcomes
Cop29 to call for sixfold increase in global energy storage
The hosts of this year’s global climate talks will ask over 190 countries to back a Group of Seven target to increase global energy-storage capacity more than sixfold by 2030.
As COP29 planning begins, reforms needed to fulfil Paris ambition
The climate summit will be Azerbaijan’s largest-ever event – but also requires huge changes
Maiden UN global stocktake could set off ‘aggressive’ revisions to net-zero pathways
Companies on track for disorderly transition, or a ‘hot house world’ if inaction persists, observers say
UAE invites Syria's Assad to COP28 climate summit
The United Arab Emirates has invited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the COP28 climate summit it is hosting at the end of the year, possibly placing him in the same venue as Western leaders who ha...
Japan’s G7 economic agenda emerges in face of geopolitical gale
Against the backdrop of ongoing geo-security tensions, promotion of energy transition will be one of the G7’s priorities this year, ahead of November’s COP28 in Dubai
The US$9 trillion oil king’s climate solution is his hand-picked oil exec
IN the months before the signing of the Paris Agreement, the then-crown prince of oil-rich Abu Dhabi wondered aloud about the fate of his sheikhdom at the end of the fossil fuel era.
Global sustainability standards chief expects strong take up of climate rules
THE head of a global standard setter for corporate sustainability disclosures said he expected more than 40 countries to adopt initial rules on climate reporting when they go live in 2024.
As hopes for COP28 dim, need and opportunity rise for regional climate hub
THE United Arab Emirates (UAE) has named Sultan Al Jaber, the chief executive of the state oil company Adnoc, to lead COP28, the annual climate summit that will take place November this year in the Gu...
