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Oil Price Drop Threatens Industries That Help Cut Global Warming

The plunge in oil prices risks undermining efforts to reduce the pollution blamed for global warming, especially projects designed to wring more from each barrel of oil, the International Energy Agency...

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Can Next Week’s OPEC Meeting Comfort Oil Markets?

This week, the North American oil rig count fell again after a pause, and oil prices continue to exhibit weakness. As below chart suggets, especially the Permian and Mississippian region have seen a...

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COP21: REC calls for a ‘sunny commitment’ in its global initiative to fight...

(Source: REC Solar ASA) . REC is confident that the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), November 30-December 11, marks a global tipping point in the fight against climate change....

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World leaders seek new path to slow warming of planet

Next week, in the waning days of what is set to be the hottest year on record, world leaders meet on the outskirts of Paris for a summit that seeks nothing less than to steer the global economy away...

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China Could Become Global Leader In Nuclear Tech

China continues to rack up successes in exporting its nuclear power technologies as it seeks to become a leader on the global stage. Chinese President Xi Jingping wrapped up a state visit to the United...

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World dilemma: Coal might be dirty, but it’s still abundant and cheap

BEIJING — Coal: Can’t live with it and can’t live without it — at least not yet. It is the biggest source of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that negotiators around the world hope to limit in an...

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A Transatlantic Reason for Optimism

I am optimistic that the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, which starts in a few days, will yield positive results. My reasons for optimism are many, as there is unprecedented...

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Oil Finds Some Support As WTI Hits $40 Mark

We start with an overview of last week’s most important data from the oil and gas sector: Related: OPEC’s Bad Bet By The Numbers Oil prices continued to test a lower bound at $40 per barrel, but have...

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G20 spends four times more on fossil fuel output than on renewables, think...

ANKARA (Reuters) - The G20 countries spend almost four times as much to prop up fossil fuel production as they do to subsidize renewable energy, calling into question their commitment to halting...

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Rich Nations Subsidize Fossil Fuels Four Times More Than Renewables

The G20 countries spend almost four times as much to prop up fossil fuel production as they do to subsidize renewable energy, calling into question their commitment to halting climate change, a think...

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Energy security and sustained growth: Analysis of the energy outlook and...

Introduction Sustained population and economic growth have almost doubled both primary and final energy demand in the East Asia Summit (EAS) region, and this rising energy demand is posing an...

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Germany Aims to Plug Hole in Energy Transition

Steve Baragona BERLIN, GERMANY— As Germany executes what may be Europe’s most ambitious transition to clean energy, the dirtiest form of coal-fired power has held fast to a major share of the country's...

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Top economies must act quickly on climate and sustainable development at G20...

(Source: WWF - World Wildlife Fund) Posted on 11 November 2015 GLAND, Switzerland - The world's 20 largest economies must advance key policies to support an upcoming climate deal and the new...

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World's Top Miners Risk $10 Billion of Earnings on Carbon Cost

The world’s biggest mining companies face a combined $10 billion risk to their earnings if carbon pricing tightens in the wake of crucial global climate talks in Paris starting next week, according to...

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U.K. Is The Only G7 Country To INCREASE Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Despite pledges to cut fossil fuel subsidies, it turns out that G20 country governments, which includes some of the largest economies in the world, are still providing $452 billion (£297 billion) a...

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Coal not going away anytime soon despite renewables push

BEIJING (AP) -- Coal: Can't live with it and can't live without it - at least not yet. It is the biggest source of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that negotiators around the world hope to limit in an...

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Rightwingers push 'moral' coal only after they doomed a truly moral alternative

Around the developed world, the age of coal is drawing to a close. Coal-fired power plants are closing down just about everywhere. They are being replaced by renewables and gas-fired plants, or...

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Energy Companies Risk $2.2 Trillion as Climate Goals Cut Demand

Oil, natural gas and coal producers are risking $2.2 trillion by investing in projects for which there will be no demand if the world meets a United Nations target of limiting the rise in temperature...

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The Middle East Could Face A Historic Crisis By Century’s End

Regarding the Middle East and its oil, the late Sheikh Rashid Bin Saed Al Maktoum, longtime Emir of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, once famously remarked: “My grandfather rode a...

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Emerging markets economic woes cap crude at US$50

Benchmark Brent crude floated above the US$50/barrel mark for a few days in early October, only to be dragged back into the high-$40s and languish at those levels, suggesting the market remains focused...

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