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China to spend $27bn on energy efficiency and renewables


China plans to spend $27 bn (£17bn) this year to promote energy conservation, emission reductions and renewable energy. The country’s finance ministry said it wants to promote energy-saving products, solar and wind power and accelerate the development of renewable energy and hybrid cars. China is the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, followed by the [...]

Cove Energy in lucrative tug-of-war


May 25, 2012 4:27 pm By Michael Kavanagh … Read the full story at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b801f3e-a676-11e1-aef2-00144feabdc0.html

Putin defends halt to energy asset sell-off


May 24, 2012 7:19 pm By Catherine Belton in Moscow … Read the full story at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a12d7e70-a5be-11e1-a3b4-00144feabdc0.html

Iran: Nuclear energy for all, atomic weapons for no one


Speaking on Thursday after the Baghdad negotiations, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and the head of the Iranian delegation to the talks, Saeed Jalili asserted that all nations have the right to enrich uranium under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). He also reiterated Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy. Iran and the [...]

Goldman sets $40 billion clean energy investment plan


By Lauren Tara LaCapra Wed May 23, 2012 10:17pm BST (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to channel investments totaling $40 billion over the next decade into renewable energy projects, an area the investment bank called one of the biggest profit opportunities since its economists got excited about emerging markets in 2001. Goldman executives [...]