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German minister Wissing starts international e-fuels dialogue

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We need e-fuels to achieve our climate protection goals. Our goal is to agree on uniform standards and a legal framework, to reduce the currently high costs and to increase production capacities. Among others, the Czech Republic, Morocco and Japan were represented. The aim is to consolidate international exchange.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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Overall, declining costs for solar and wind played a considerable factor in the fall in absolute dollar investment in emerging economies. Most notably, Vietnam, South Africa, Mexico and Morocco led the rankings with a combined investment of $16 billion in 2018. Inflows to clean energy projects in India and Brazil slipped $2.4

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Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

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However, as the world strives to tackle climate change by decarbonizing energy sources and cutting the use of fossil fuels, the Middle East’s oil producers have identified a new opportunity that they hope will keep them at the heart of the global energy ecosystem throughout the 21 st century: green hydrogen. Many more will follow.

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The world’s longest land and subsea interconnector just came online

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Katie Jackson, the president of National Grid Ventures, which runs National Grid’s interconnector business, said: As we deploy more wind power to meet our climate and energy security targets, connections to our neighboring countries will play a vital role [in] increasing [the] security of supply and reducing prices for consumers.

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COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

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. … We will work together to overcome strategic, political, and technical barriers, accelerate the production of zero emission vehicles and increase economies of scale, to make the transition faster, lower cost, and easier for everyone.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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The cost of shifting from rescue operations to border enforcement may be harder journeys for migrants and the deaths of some. While migrants and traffickers fight over the cost of their crossings, European entities have fought over how to stop migrant crossings. percent to €543 million in 2021. One migrant with no money.

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