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Policy & Finance
Why China’s Belt and Road oil-and-gas boom is different this time
The 2025 surge is less a return to resource-buying than a shift towards construction-led industrial infrastructure and selective financing.
In a landmark decision, Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court recently determined that long-term waste dumping at a site in Meethotamulla violated residents’ fundamental rights and faulted the authorities for allowing the dump to expand beyond permitted limits.
One-third of projects may have gone ahead even without the credit revenue, new research reveals.
Retailers in China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore were assessed on efforts to curb methane from meat, dairy and rice supply chains. None have set a reduction target, despite the greenhouse gas’s outsized climate impact.
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