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Despite many countries switching from fossil fuels to cleaner ones, global coal consumption will reach an all-time high of 164 Exajoules (EJ) in 2023, according to a Visual Capitalist analysis highlighting coal's role in the energy mix...

• "We can expect the stabilization trend on the operational side of OMV Petrom to continue in the second half of 2024" 

Oil and products made from this raw material represent, on average, 30% of global merchandise exports, valued at 1.5 trillion dollars annually, according to a visualcapitalist.com analysis.

After the American vice president Kamala Harris presented at the end of last week her economic program as a candidate for the position of the president of the USA, we wonder if what is called the Simion Plan still looks like a utopia - as...

The member states of the European Union have financed the Kremlin regime with almost 200 billion euros, from the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine until now, through the lens of fossil fuels purchased directly or indirectly from the Russian...

Our country has faced a new wave of heat waves in recent days. This is the first red heat code (the tenth this summer) ever issued in August in Romania, the director of the National Meteorological Administration, Elena Mateescu, said. Entire...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide Deutsche Bank with guarantees of 500 million euros to help the lender support Europe's wind energy industry, the two organizations and the European Commission announced yesterday, according to...

The increase in energy production in the strip, regardless of the source, represents "the discovery" of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and the members of the Energy Command in order to reduce blackouts and consumers to permanently benefit...

Humanity is simmering this summer. Temperature records fall one after another. Last month was the hottest June ever recorded, the EU's climate change monitoring service announced. This continues a series of exceptional temperatures that,...

Există anumite lucruri promovate intens pe diverse canale, care fac foarte mult rău sănătăţii oamenilor. Tutunul, alimentele ultraprocesate, combustibilii fosili şi alcoolul, promovate de lobby-urile din domeniul industrial, sunt responsabile...

There are certain things heavily promoted on various channels that are very harmful to people's health. Tobacco, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuels and alcohol, promoted by industry lobbies, are responsible for 2.7 million deaths a year in...

Greed, bad decisions, wrong experiments have caused immense damage to nature. Humans, guilty of climate warming, represent the same "danger" for our planet as "the meteorite that exterminated the dinosaurs", declared the UN...

Protecting nature costs more and more. Global investments in clean energy infrastructure and technology are expected to reach $2 trillion this year, double the amount for fossil fuels, according to a report by the International Energy Agency...

China was the largest extractor of domestic raw materials in the world in 2023, according to data from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), taken by Statista. The Asian country extracted a total of 34.2 billion tons of raw materials,...

Rare fossils of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex have been excavated in the swamplands of North Dakota - a discovery worthy of attention for the scientific knowledge it could provide about the life and history of this famous dinosaur species and for...

Meteorologists are rolling out information related to new and new records, and the studies are not encouraging at all. The big problem is that things are expected to get even hotter. Last summer was just the hottest on record, the hottest in...

Solar power accounted for three-quarters of the capacity additions to renewable energy production units worldwide in 2023, according to visualcapitalist.com, which notes that most of this expansion took place in Asia, the EU and the US,...

It has become a habit that almost every month we experience is the warmest on record. All we have to do is set every record. April 2024 was no exception. The world just had its warmest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which each...

April started with unbearable temperatures in certain regions of the world. According to a study, the unbearable heat wave that hit the Sahel region at the beginning of April is linked to "anthropogenic" climate change, scientists from...

Through the National Recovery and Resilience Program (PNRR), Romania has committed to carrying out tax reform in 2025. Until the elections for the Romanian Parliament in December 2024, citizens would have the opportunity to participate in an...

The energy transition appears to be at a standstill as member states need total investments in transmission and distribution networks of euro800 billion by 2030 according to a study by the Energy Round Table, a body made up of the main energy...

The energy system in Romania showed high dynamics during the past year, with an increase in net national energy production of 3%, mainly due to increased hydraulics. This increase, along with the decrease in energy consumption by 4.9%, as a...

The commodities trading industry had the second best year in its history in terms of profits in 2023, posting earnings of more than $100 billion while accumulating significant liquidity that can be spent on asset acquisitions or entering new...

Cargo shipper Transport Trade Services (TTS) and engineering and technology company Simtel Team, listed on the AeRO Market, continued the trend of increasing profitability in the fourth quarter of 2023, but at a lower level than in the first part...

Reporter: Confind's main clients are OMV, Petrom, Romgaz, ExpertPetroleum. Will the list of collaborations expand in 2024?

Since the beginning of Russia's illegal aggression in Ukraine, the European Union and NATO have sided with the authorities in Kiev, condemning the aggression and providing several packages of humanitarian and military support.

• February 23, 2022 

Global warming consumes a lot of resources, including financial ones. "The political momentum could fade" and "the spirit of COP28 must be kept alive", said its president, Sultan al Jaber, calling for the mobilization of not...

The effects of pollution are among the most diverse. The pollination of plants dependent on nocturnal insects, such as moths, is threatened by air pollution, according to a study published in the journal Science. A pollutant present in the air,...

Fossil, unul din producătorii tradiţionali de ceasuri care şi-a încercat norocul şi pe piaţa de smartwatch-uri, anunţă că o va părăsi pe aceasta din urmă, conform news.ro.

The US dollar dominates global finance, especially in commodity markets, but China sees the transition to renewable energy as a way to increase the importance of the yuan, writes Business Insider.

Meteorological records fell one after another throughout 2023, and Europe was no exception. Last year was the hottest in the history of meteorological recordings, with a "remarkable" advancement, probably the warmest in the last 100,000...

Great expectations are not always met. This holds true for the latest climate action summit. The adoption last week at COP28 in Dubai of a global compromise agreement that paves the way for a gradual phase-out of fossil fuels, the main culprits...

Officials from around the world have reacted after the adoption of a compromise agreement at COP28 in Dubai, which, for the first time, urges countries worldwide to progressively phase out fossil fuels, considered the primary culprits of climate...

The world as we know it is undergoing continuous change, and this is not necessarily a positive development. The Red List of Threatened Species compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and recently updated highlights...

Renunţarea bruscă la o sursă colosală de venituri este greu de făcut chiar şi în numele unui ideal nobil. Cu atât mai mult când la mijloc sunt interese financiare enorme şi este vorba despre resursele unui întreg ţinut. Preşedintele summitului...

A sudden abandonment of a colossal source of revenue is challenging, especially in the name of a noble ideal, particularly when massive financial interests are at stake, involving the resources of an entire region. The President of the COP28...

Humanity is facing increasingly numerous threats, many of which are self-inflicted, and nature seems less willing to aid humans. Experts argue that we have reached a point of no return, and if humanity does not realize the gravity of the...

Representatives of the most important companies in our economy, state officials, diplomats, bankers, investors gathered on Tuesday evening at the BURSA Gala in an atmosphere of high elegance. Exceptional merits of some entrepreneurs were awarded,...

Representatives of the most important companies in our economy, state officials, diplomats, bankers, investors gathered on Tuesday evening at the BURSA Gala in an atmosphere of high elegance. Exceptional merits of some entrepreneurs were awarded,...