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David FicklingBloomberg |
Forget everything you’ve heard about how electric vehicles are running out of charge. In the biggest car market, they’re on the brink of victory...
There’s a comforting but erroneous explanation for why your solar panels, home battery and electric car are increasingly likely to be made in China....
It’s amazing the difference that $35 billion can make. Go back to the start of this year, and Egypt — home to 105 million people, and one of the...
A curious thing has been happening in China’s vast real estate market — or rather, not happening. For two years, a financial crisis has rocked...
In a world riven by great-power conflict, economic decoupling, high inflation, and worries that the interests of capital are being put ahead of...
In a world where electric vehicles and utility-scale batteries are taking over, it would be nice to not depend on a geopolitical rival for your most...
Ever since photovoltaic cells started popping up on pocket calculators and building roofs a few decades ago, solar power has faced a key drawback:...
One of the world’s most moribund businesses is rising from the dead. India’s private-sector coal generators largely quit building new power plants...
The data on carbon emissions in 2023 is only just in, but we can already predict where things will go this year. Global greenhouse pollution hit a new...
No dystopian picture of a climate-ruined planet is complete until you’ve been put off your lunch. Whether it’s the grubs farmed by Dave Bautista...
Think of an iconic image of the petroleum age, and you may well be picturing a fountain of crude spouting hundreds of feet into the air, scattering...
Countries have no permanent friends or enemies, only interests. It’s not so different with lobby groups. Farmers producing renewable fuel and oil...
You know an electricity policy is bankrupt when its advocates start touting the virtues of carbon capture and storage. Decades of promoting the...
For the fossil fuel industry, every crisis has always contained both danger and opportunity. It’s a trick the renewables business has struggled to...
Think of a planet in the grip of climate crisis, and many of the images in your mind will be carved from wood. Forests in Canada and Australia going...
Remember a few years ago, when lots of places decided to ban plastic bags? Remember how we all stopped using them? Yeah, me neither. Far from reducing...
Batteries are doing such a great job replacing petroleum in car engines that it’s natural to think they might do the same in the skies. Efforts to...
Here’s some good news for electric cars: They’re cheaper than ever. Here’s some bad news for electric cars: They’re cheaper than ever. If this...
It’s easy to forget, but a decade ago the winter months were routinely marked by apocalyptic imagery from Beijing. Cold, still air trapping the...
After the most sustained bout of inflation in a generation, you’d think governments would be looking to do everything they could to reduce the...
It may be just one-tenth the size of Tesla Inc. in terms of market capitalization, but BYD Co. has just pulled ahead to become the world’s biggest...
Until the rise of online retail, you might have been forgiven for thinking that all apparel was shipped in burlap sacks. Those wanting their garment...
The past year hasn’t generally been a cheerful one for those hoping the world will get a grip on climate change. We’re now around the middle of...
It was a year when the world experienced its hottest 12 months on record. When China connected more new coal plants than ever before. US oil...
The biggest problem facing the global energy transition over the next decade isn’t technology or politics. It’s money. Reconfiguring the...
As the dust settles on the COP28 climate summit that concluded last week in Dubai, a sobering reality is looming. After the legalistic niceties of...
Just as battery-powered vehicles hit a tipping point where their cost plunges below that of conventional cars, a fresh hurdle risks holding back the...
There’s a common lament echoing through the halls of Expo City Dubai, the 1,000-acre conference venue where the COP28 climate conference is being...
What sort of climate deal is a summit hosted by the world’s third-largest net oil exporter most likely to pull off? The type that boosts revenues...
There’s a story thousands of years old about the way communication difficulties can thwart the most ambitious projects. In the Biblical book of...
At the time of the first major climate change conference, in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, China was one of the least developed nations. Its per capita...
Could the world’s biggest polluter be on the brink of cleaning up its act? That’s the promise of an announcement from China last week of a ...
Murk is once again descending on India’s festival of light. Delhi is one of the world’s most polluted cities at the best of times, but in the...
Once upon a time, the world didn’t care much about lithium. A decade after Sony Corp. developed lithium-ion batteries in 1991, the rise of...
After a tsunami triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor in 2011, the world’s third- and fourth-largest exporters decided on...
Wind energy is meant to thrive in turbulent conditions. In 2023, the companies that seek to harness it are battening down the hatches. Siemens Energy...
The world’s auto industry is accelerating in two directions at once. Unless those contradictions are resolved, carmakers risk running themselves off...
As the US slams a backdoor entry for Chinese-made solar panels and the European Union examines trade restrictions on electric vehicles and wind...
Which of Australia’s iron ore billionaires has more money invested in advancing the energy transition? Andrew Forrest, a green evangelist who...
One of the vagaries of zero-carbon power as the world approaches its emissions peak is the way small year-to-year changes can mask the scale of the...
Politicians campaigning for elections often treat blunt protectionism like candy. The immediate sugar high is hard to beat, but in the long term...
Like many oil company bosses, Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods is a skeptic about the potential of M&A deals to reduce carbon...
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