Lower-income countries banking on fossil fuels to generate economic growth risk being left behind by shifts in investment and credit as the world increasingly targets carbon emissions, ar...

Chatham House 31 Jul 2018

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Environment and Natural Resource Security

This study shows just how far G7 countries have to go to eliminate fossil fuels

Rich nations are still spending $100 billion a year on fossil fuels, despite climate pledges.

Lin Taylor · Reuters 07 Jun 2018

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Oil and Gas

Oil prices have hit a three-year high

The value of oil hasn't been this high since November 2014.

Henning Gloystein · Reuters 20 Apr 2018

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Climate Change

New Zealand is banning future offshore oil and gas exploration

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a national pledge with the aim of tackling climate change.

Charlotte Greenfield · Reuters 12 Apr 2018

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Oil and Gas

How Norway’s sovereign wealth fund made $130 billion in one year

2017 was a big year for the fund - which is already the largest in the world.

Eshe Nelson · Quartz 05 Mar 2018

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Environment and Natural Resource Security

Chemicals in products like paint and perfume create as much pollution as cars

Although we typically picture pollution as coming directly from cars or power plants, a large fraction of air pollution actually comes from chemical reactions that happen in the atmosphere.

Kathryn Emmerson and Jenny Fisher · The Conversation 19 Feb 2018

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Middle East and North Africa

How a lower oil price created opportunities in the Gulf

Governments have been forced to accelerate reforms.

HE Khalid Rumaihi 14 Feb 2018

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Oil and Gas

These are the world's biggest coal producers

Some countries may be phasing out coal, but production of the fossil fuel has more than doubled over the past four decades.

Rob Smith 11 Jan 2018

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Oil and Gas

The World Bank will no longer support oil and gas exploration

The World Bank will no longer finance upstream oil and gas projects after 2019.

Reuters Staff · Reuters 13 Dec 2017

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Oil and Gas

Norway's Central Bank has recommended oil and gas holdings are removed from its sovereign wealth fund

Norway's central bank has recommended that the Ministry of Finance remove oil and gas holdings from its $1 trillion (£760 billion) sovereign wealth fund.

Thomas Colson · Business Insider 20 Nov 2017

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China

An innovative boiler has changed Chinese winters forever

People across northern China are preparing for their first winter with gas heating - part of a government effort to wean the nation off dirty coal and improve the country's notoriously ba...

Meng Meng and Josephine Mason · Reuters 09 Oct 2017

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Oil and Gas

This engineer has accidentally found a safer way to transport oil

An engineer has discovered a way to turn liquid oil into spill-resistant pellets with air capsules in their core for buoyancy.

Karla Lant · Futurism 18 Sep 2017

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