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• Shortage threatens low-carbon targets, argues business group • Gap comes as demand for scientists and engineers increasing Britain lacks the skills or training facilities to make the successful transition to a low-carbon...
Denuclearisation will only come when bridges have been built with Pyongyang and it feels firmly set on a new economic course Negotiations over the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula look set to resume . Sadly, they are...
India’s government should tap some of the $400bn it has locked up in state enterprises to invest in projects to clean up its environment and combat global warming, a top economic official said on Friday. Vijay Kelkar, chairman...
MOSCOW, November 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian and Iranian officials confirmed on Friday that work to launch Iran's first nuclear power plant is going as scheduled, Russia's state nuclear power equipment and service export...
By Tim Johnston in Vientiane, Laos From the window of his office in the Laotian capital Vientiane, Jeremy Bird looks down on a lazy arc of the Mekong river about half way along its 4,400km journey from its turbulent headwaters...
Rio Tinto, the global mining company that faced a huge debt burden a year ago, continued its recapitalisation drive as it netted $741m (£450m) by spinning off US coal assets. Cloud Peak Energy, which started trading on the New...
The FTSE 100 fell and the banks collapsed. But as Patrick Collinson reports, the only shares that didn't go up in smoke were tobacco companies In a decade dominated by the rise of China, the expansion of the internet and the...
Published Date: 20 November 2009 THE world's largest hydro-electric wave energy device was switched on to the national grid today. • The Oyster wave pump system First Minister Alex Salmond said the Oyster machine marked a...
The backers of an energy bill introduced in Parliament yesterday promise it will introduce powers and clearer legislation for supporting energy consumers. The bill has been described as a measure that will give a greater amount...
The world’s major challenge in combating climate change is to devise a strategy that encourages growth in the developing world, but on a path that approaches safe global carbon-emission levels by mid-century. The way to achieve...
