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Has the Iran war been a setback for greener steelmaking?
Energy shocks, trade disruptions and rising costs have come at a key moment in the steel industry’s efforts to transition to lower-carbon production.
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Twenty years of foreign investment turned a town on Pakistan’s coast into a huge port, which fishers say has made their lives far harder.
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As new sources of climate finance grow, the poorest are neglected
Developing countries are mobilising more and more climate finance but neglecting their lowest-income peers.
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Amid Hormuz instability, attention shifts to Pakistan’s Gwadar port
Pakistan's once sleepy port now has options. It could reinvent itself into an oil hub, a trade gateway or a clean-energy powerhouse.
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