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David FicklingThe Japan News |
You might have missed it amid the noise of the Trump transition and the sound of the European and Japanese auto industries collapsing. But the failure...
If you want to turn climate policy into a bitter culture war, there are few more effective weapons than a Big Mac. On one side, environmentalists will...
You can regard the depressing denouement of the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan at the weekend as a sort of diplomatic echo of the U.S....
To many in the petroleum industry, natural gas is the unsung hero of the energy transition. It may not be a clean fuel, but it’s nowhere near as...
When’s the last time you visited a gas station that sold nothing but gas? If the answer is "never,” you’ve hit on one of the key problems for...
Summer rains are leaving China sodden. That’s pushing coal underwater. After several years of drought, rainfall has been lashing the country this...
Billionaires with an eye on their legacy rarely do things on a small scale. Take Australia’s fifth-richest person, Mike Cannon-Brookes. The...
What’s the biggest event at the Olympic Games? There’s a good case that it’s not running, or swimming, or gymnastics, but the celebration of...
There has rarely been a better time to be a seller of fossil fuels — nor a worse time to be exposed to their effects. Thanks to resilient crude...
It can often seem a triumph that India exists at all. By some miracle of human ingenuity and industry, a land area barely bigger than Argentina with...
Geography, it’s often said, is destiny. The paths nations follow though history are written like a script on the patterns of their rocks, rivers,...
With blistering speed, the rich countries that built their wealth on coal-powered industrialization are turning their backs on dirty energy. Coal...
If you think humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels is hard to shake, it’s nothing compared to the strength of our plastics habit. In rich...
A nasty thing about waging war is that your enemies have a habit of fighting back. That is a lesson German Chancellor Olaf Scholz would do well to...
At the time Egypt’s pyramids were being constructed, one of the cradles of global civilization grew up in the Indus Valley around the borders of...
Hearing overseas oil executives talk, you would think that Chinese drivers and air passengers were coming to the rescue of an oil market looking for...
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...
Once upon a time, the world didn’t care much about lithium. A decade after Sony developed lithium-ion batteries in 1991, the rise of smartphones and...
As the dust settles on the COP28 climate summit that recently concluded in Dubai, a sobering reality is looming. After the legalistic niceties of...
There is a common lament echoing through the halls of Expo City Dubai, the 400-hectare conference venue where the COP28 climate conference is being...