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BP expected to scrap renewables target in shift back to fossil fuels
BP is expected to ditch a target to ramp up renewable energy generation by 2030 as part of a shift back towards fossil fuels when it presents its strategy to investors this week.
The chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, is poised to tell shareholders that the oil and gas company is …
‘The flying bum’: can a UK firm making huge airships finally get off the ground?
It’s a dreary day in Bedford, but on a flight simulator the skies above San Francisco airport are blue and the wind is low. That is a good thing, because there is an amateur at the joystick of the world’s biggest aircraft.
The flight simulator models trips by the Airlander …
Germany election: far right surge is ‘last warning’, says Friedrich Merz
The doubling of support for the far right in Germany’s federal election was “the last warning” to the country’s mainstream parties to provide effective leadership, Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s victorious conservative alliance, has said.
Speaking on Monday after his CDU/CSU alliance came first with 28.5% of the vote, …
Calls to toughen Lords rules as it is revealed one in 10 peers are paid for political advice
Ninety-one members of the House of Lords have been paid by commercial companies to give political or policy advice, amid concerns that their activities are not being properly regulated.
Analysis by the Guardian shows that more than one in 10 peers have taken payments from businesses such as lobbyists and …
What is the House of Lords and what do peers do?
Away from the noise of Big Ben and Parliament Square, tucked away on a quieter side of the walls that surround the Palace of Westminster, a doorkeeper in a thick red coat and black top hat stands at a gothic stone porch. A taxi pulls up and he steps forward …
‘Not what we signed up for’: inside Trump’s ‘shocking’ Kennedy Center takeover
annual gathering of conservatives
had just got under way near Washington when its organiser, Matt Schlapp, turned to Ric Grenell and quipped: “My daughters want tickets to all the good Kennedy Center shows.”Grenell, a former acting director of national intelligence, was recently named by …
German election shows how far green wave has receded in Europe
In the final days of an election campaign dominated by migration, the likely new chancellor of Europe’s biggest polluter sought to assure voters that its economy ministry would not be occupied by NGOs. Instead, conservative lead candidate Friedrich Merz posted on social media that it would be led by “someone …
Forest fires push up greenhouse gas emissions from war in Ukraine
The burning of Ukraine’s forests at unprecedented rates over the past year has helped push the total greenhouse emissions from the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion to almost 230m tonnes, analysis shows.
, published on the third anniversary of the invasion, found the fighting and its …Just Eat Takeaway.com bought by South Africa’s Prosus in €4bn deal
The food delivery business Just Eat Takeaway.com has been snapped up by an investor in its German rival Delivery Hero for €4.1bn (£3.4bn), just two months after it
left the London Stock Exchange
.Just Eat’s board has unanimously approved the takeover by the South African-owned internet investor …
Monday briefing: Merz will be Germany’s chancellor – but extremists are waiting in the wings
Good morning. Germany’s elections always matter far beyond the country’s borders – but yesterday’s vote
could be the most important in a generation
.After decades as the stable linchpin of European liberal democracy, Germany has found itself sucked into the same crises that are erupting all over …