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ESG funds outperform peers and benchmark over longer term, South Korean study finds
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Carbon & Climate
South Korean power firms unable to project long-term coal losses amid 2040 phaseout push: report
A think tank says state-run generators could not provide forecasts on coal plant utilisation, early closure costs or stranded asset risks beyond 2030 as Seoul pursues coal exit and utility restructuring plans.
SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics are among the world's fastest-growing AI revenue companies on the back of surging demand for high-bandwidth memory and AI chips. But such chips consume up to five times more energy per gigabyte to produce than standard memory, analysts warn.
A new ‘corporate scorecard’ reveals the gap between steelmakers' climate ambition and action.
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