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China accounted for 95 per cent of the world’s new coal power construction activity in 2023, according to the latest annual report from Global Energy Monitor (GEM).
Last month, Germany became the first major economy to announce that it intends to introduce a target to reach “net-negative” emissions later this century.
The Middle East sees no sunset for fossil fuel use with renewable energy unable to match the profits earned from oil and gas.
Just hours before the start of the high stakes conference, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, Jr called off his trip to Dubai, in order to focus on a hostage situation of Filipino seafarers in the Red Sea.
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