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Amazon and others commit to using zero-carbon shipping fuels by 2040
By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc and IKEA are among commercial users of container shipping that will opt for zero-carbon marine fuels by 2040 in a new initiative aimed at speeding up...
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Britain’s Johnson sets out green ambitions with some caveats
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday set out his ambition on Tuesday for a green revolution that would force Western economies to kick their centuries old addiction to fo...
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IMF cuts Asia’s growth forecast, warns of supply chain risks
By Leika Kihara (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slashed this year's economic growth forecast for Asia and warned that a fresh wave of COVID-19 infections, supply chain disruptio...
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Britain to create 440,000 new jobs with net-zero strategy – minister
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's net-zero strategy will create 440,000 new jobs in green industries by 2030, junior energy minister Greg Hands said on Tuesday, adding it included a zero-emission vehicle m...
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Alien world under Austria’s doomed glaciers tells tale of their collapse
By Lisi Niesner JAMTALFERNER GLACIER, Austria (Reuters) - Scientists are venturing inside otherworldly ice caves growing beneath Austria's doomed glaciers to study why they are melting even faster tha...
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Facebook shuts fake accounts in Sudan, as fight for public opinion rages online
By Nafisa Eltahir, Malaika Tapper and Khalid Abdelaziz CAIRO/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Facebook says it has shut down two large networks targeting users in Sudan in recent months, as civilian and military ...
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Black Americans, women make big strides on top U.S. corporate boards -report
By Jessica DiNapoli (Reuters) - Black people made record-breaking gains over the last year in securing seats on boards of S&P 500 companies, while women came close to accounting for a third of corpora...
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Russian space movie director says moon or Mars could be next
By Angelina Kazakova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian film director Klim Shipenko said on Tuesday he was up for making a movie on the moon or even Mars after returning from 12 days of shooting aboard the In...
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Siemens-backed energy storage firm Fluence aims to raise $744 million in U.S. IPO
(Reuters) - Fluence Energy Inc, an energy storage technology company backed by industry giant Siemens AG, said on Tuesday it was aiming to raise up to $744 million in its initial public offering in th...
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Analysis-One taxonomy to rule them all? Investors face myriad of green investing rules
By Huw Jones, Kate Abnett and Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - After years of complaints that there were no rules to determine what constitutes a "sustainable" investment, investors now fret there will...
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