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Saudi works to boost oil demand despite climate pledges
Nov 28, 2023 (AFP)
The report, published Monday by the Centre for Climate Reporting and Britain's Channel 4 News, focuses on the Gulf kingdom's Oil Sustainability Program (OSP), l...
UAE sought to use COP28 to advance oil deals: report
Nov 27, 2023 (AFP)
The leaked briefing notes, obtained by journalists at the Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR) working alongside the British broadcaster, were prepared by the UAE...
US Defense officials to visit Guyana amid Venezuela row: Guyanese VP
Nov 24, 2023 (AFP)
Tensions are running high between Georgetown and Caracas, which has organized a December 3 poll to ask Venezuelans to consider annexing the Guyana-administered ...
UAE: fossil fuel power and COP28 host
Nov 23, 2023 (AFP)
- The carbon footprint - The UAE may be a small country of only nine million inhabitants but it emitted 237 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2021, acco...
Fossil fuels in the crosshairs at pivotal COP28 talks
Nov 23, 2023 (AFP)
Pope Francis, King Charles III, political leaders, activists and lobbyists will be among the more than 70,000 visitors expected for the COP28 meeting in oil-ric...
France authorises natural gas project
Nov 23, 2023 (AFP)
A decree signed Monday awarded the "Bleue Lorraine" concession to La Francaise de l'Energie, which plans to tap natural gas trapped in coal seams in the eastern...
Oil firms face 'moment of truth' in climate crisis: IEA
Nov 23, 2023 (AFP)
The future of fossil fuels that play a massive role in climate change will be at the heart of COP28 negotiations in Dubai, as the world struggles to meet the go...
IEA calls on oil companies to devote half their investments to clean energy by 2030
Nov 23, 2023 (AFP)
The IEA urged producers to make the "pivotal choice" between deepening the climate crisis or helping to limit global warming to +1.5C, in line with the Paris Ag...
IEA head: Oil, gas producers must play bigger role in reaching climate goals
Nov 23, 2023 (UPI)
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said that in the run-up to next week's COP28 climate summit in Dubai, the fossil fuel industry needs to make a stark assessme...
Officials struggle to find source of Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Nov 22, 2023 (UPI)
The spill was discovered on Thursday near a 67-mile pipeline system owned by Third Coast Infrastructure in Houston and operated by Main Pass Oil Gathering Co. i...
COP28 turns attention to potent methane emissions
Nov 21, 2023 (AFP)
But other powerful heat-trapping emissions -- of methane -- are also likely to be in the crosshairs of negotiators at the crucial COP28 meeting in Dubai next we...
NASA Mission Excels at Spotting Greenhouse Gas Emission Sources
Nov 21, 2023 (JPL)
Short for Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation, EMIT was launched in July 2022 to map 10 key minerals on the surface of the world's arid regions. Tho...
Thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists attend COP meetings: NGOs
Nov 21, 2023 (AFP)
The Kick Big Polluters Out coalition analysed the official lists of COP participants going back to 2003 and found that out of the thousands of accreditations af...
'An uphill climb' at COP28: EU climate commissioner
Nov 21, 2023 (AFP)
Wopke Hoekstra, in an interview with the European Newsroom which AFP is part of, said recent trips to China, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa had shown...
NGOs ask banks to pull out of TotalEnergies' gas project in Mozambique
Nov 17, 2023 (AFP)
The NGOs -- which include the Human Rights League, Oil Change International and Greenpeace France -- have told the 28 financial institutions that as they give "...
Oil, gas giants could pay climate damage and still profit: research
Nov 16, 2023 (AFP)
Their conclusions were released ahead of the UN's COP28 climate negotiations later this month in Dubai, where developing countries not responsible for most carb...
China fuels increase in global oil demand: IEA
Nov 14, 2023 (AFP)
The Paris-based organisation said global demand is forecast to hit an all-time high in 2024, although it will grow at a sharply slower pace. "World oil demand c...
US renews waiver allowing Iraq to buy Iranian gas
Nov 14, 2023 (AFP)
"This action will allow Iraq to use its own funds to render payment for Iranian electricity imports into restricted Iranian accounts in Iraq," a senior US State...
Report: Ukraine intelligence officer behind Nord Stream pipeline explosion
Nov 11, 2023 (UPI)
The Post, citing anonymous Ukrainian and European officials as well as others with knowledge of the operation, published the report in conjunction with German p...
Probe into pipeline damage links anchor to Chinese ship
Nov 10, 2023 (AFP)
After a leak led to the shutdown of the pipeline between Finland and Estonia on October 8, Finnish authorities have been investigating the damage they said was ...
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