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    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      Climate change
      First transatlantic flight powered by cooking and animal fats lands in New York

      Aviation industry hails milestone but green campaigners question whether alternative fuels are sustainable

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      Virgin Atlantic plane taking off
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      Special ReportManaging Climate Change
      Pressure mounts ahead of COP28 to dump fossil fuels

      Success at the UN summit in Dubai will be measured by whether a global deal can be reached on ending their use

      3 hours ago
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      InterviewUtilities
      Clean-energy sell-off is ‘very wrong’, warns US power group boss

      AES chief defends renewables investment despite market rout this year

      Andrés Gluski, CEO of AES
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      Disrupted Times
      Battle for lithium heats up

      Also in this newsletter: Turkey’s Russian exports in spotlight, COP28 manoeuvres, gold price soars

      Lithum mine in Chile
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      COP28
      UAE planned to use COP28 summit for oil deals, documents show

      Leak appears to outline talking points for discussions with foreign governments

      Sultan al-Jaber
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      LexGold
      Gold: the consequences of war are shock and Au Premium content

      Central banks are seeking safety in times of turmoil

      The price of gold has risen about 15 per cent in the past year
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      Environment
      ‘Sacrifice zone’: booming US LNG sector leaves its mark on the Gulf

      Rising gas exports have eased Europe’s energy crisis — but worsened life in communities near the plants

      Roishetta Ozane with her child in Sulphur, Louisiana, with petrochemical plans in the background
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      Gold
      Gold price hits six-month high as investors bet on rate cuts

      Slide in dollar and growing expectations that interest rates will fall next year drive strong rally in yellow metal

      Gold of various weights and sizes
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      Agricultural commodities
      Coffee and cocoa stored in EU warehouses at risk of destruction under new rules

      Anti-deforestation law passed in June restricts non-compliant stocks from being sold in the bloc

      Workers stack sacks of cocoa beans
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      Lithium
      Mining tycoons battle over lithium’s ‘corridor of power’ in Australia

      Local billionaires disrupt consolidation as industry positions itself for boom in mineral vital to electric cars

      A desert tract near Kalgoorlie, best known for Australia’s largest open-pit gold mine
    • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
      Mary Robinson
      We cannot afford to have a bad COP

      Backsliding and inconsistency on national climate commitments is deeply troubling

      Fireman silhouetted against a forest wildfire in California
    • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
      German economy
      Germany faces threat of creeping deindustrialisation, warns steel boss

      Salzgitter CEO says steel and chemicals producers must commit to country, despite high energy costs

      An employee collects samples of molten iron in a blast furnace at a Salzgitter mill
    • Saturday, 25 November, 2023
      Dangote Group
      Africa’s richest man under pressure as giant refinery nears production

      Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote faces accusations of unfair practices and a struggle to secure crude supplies

      A montage of Aliko Dangote with with refining pipework at the Dangote Industries Ltd. oil refinery and fertilizer plant site in the background
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      BP PLC
      How BP’s ‘Sun King’ court enabled the rise and fall of Bernard Looney

      Former employees say oil major has tended to overlook its rising stars’ mis-steps

      A montage of Bernard Looney and the BP logo
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      LexOil & Gas industry
      Oil and gas and renewables: virtue is starting to look like its own reward Premium content

      Investments are starting to yield a reasonable return — with a lot less price volatility

      Only 1 per cent of the investments that go into the energy transition come from the oil and gas industry, according to the IEA
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Energy Source
      Biden needs a ‘Goldilocks’ answer to electric vehicle subsidy question Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, IEA urges oil and gas companies to pay up for the energy transition

      Vehicles recharge at a Tesla Supercharger station in in El Cerrito, California
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      UK energy
      UK energy price cap to rise by 5% in January

      Move by energy regulator will see bills rise to £1,928 a year for a typical home

      A smart energy meter, used to monitor gas and electricity use and a central heating thermostat dial at a home in London
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      The Big Read
      Anglo American’s high-stakes bet on a new way to feed the world

      The mining group plans to invest $9bn in a Yorkshire mine that will produce a fertiliser mineral for which there is currently little demand

      Montage of images showing a persons hands holding a pile of crumbled polyhalite, with green crops in the foreground and the Woodsmith logo on a yellow background behind
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Oil & Gas industry
      Oil producers face ‘moment of truth’ over green investment, IEA warns

      Sector’s clean energy spending is far below that needed to hit Paris climate goals, agency says

      Flammable gases released from a flare stack at a oil refinery in Germany
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      UK energy
      Scotland’s Grangemouth refinery to close in early 2025

      Plans to convert site near Edinburgh to fuel import facility expected to put 80% of the 500 jobs at risk

      Grangemouth oil refinery
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Opec
      Oil price falls as Opec+ postpones meeting

      Traders interpret delay as sign cartel is struggling to agree further production cuts

      Pressure gauge and oil pumps
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Thyssenkrupp AG
      Thyssenkrupp writes down value of steel business by €2.1bn

      German group’s shares rally as investors hope unit will be spun off

      A worker in a Thyssenkrupp steel furnace
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Markets InsightRebecca Patterson
      Falling inflation might not dent gold’s rally

      Precious metal can gain even if the US economy heads to a soft landing

      Gold bars being laid out on soft black fabric
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      LexCopper
      Copper: China plants red flags on red metal ahead of green switch Premium content

      Expect China’s state-backed miners to continue bidding up the price of the metal

      A Peruvian copper mine operated by MMG
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Energy Source
      How we think the Opec+ meeting will play out Premium content

      A falling oil price and the Israel-Gaza conflict create a potent backdrop for Sunday’s meeting of the oil cartel

      A montage of the Opec logo along with an oil pump jack
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