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Ashley Seager
Saharan solar power a step closer
The Desertec Industrial Initiative aims to provide 15% of Europe’s electricity by 2050 or earlier using power lines stretching across the desert.
Where has all the oil gone?
The supply and demand gap is growing far faster than originally predicted, which begs the question: where to from here? Ashley Seager reports.
Addicted to oil but slow on maths
Report on crude oil futures blames global governments for ignoring the supply problem, writes Ashley Seager
Rich countries will suffer unless they help poor
Rich countries need to transfer funds to developing countries in order for both groups to reduce their carbon emissions significantly, says the UN.
China escalates Rio spying row
The giant mining firm is accused of espionage costing the country $100bn, writes Ashley Seager.
High on optimism
Traders catch scent of recovery on global manufacturing figures
Official: UK in a recession
The governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King admitted on Tuesday that Britain was entering its first recession since the early 1990s.
Scale of the disorder emerges
Huge estimated losses released by the IMF strengthen calls for urgent policy changes to restore confidence in the financial sector.
Oil price dips after Gustav blows over
US traders returning to their desks from the Labor Day weekend sold oil after earlier falls on Monday, helping to push the price down about 8%.
Solar energy’s future brightens as oil soars
Soaring oil prices have led to such a boom for solar power that the industry could operate without subsidies in just a few years’ time, according to i
Adapt or die, warns UN report
The human rights of the world’s poorest people will be violated unless developed countries accept the need for drastic and immediate steps to prevent global warming from…
Germany leads solar energy market
Hanno Renn, a Freiburg taxi driver, invested in a communal solar electricity system on a building in the German town in 1993. "Everyone laughed and said I was wasting my money,"…
Rich club minds the gap
Globalisation has reduced the bargaining power of unskilled workers and pushed up inequality in many Western countries, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development…
Vulture fund to claw back debt
A so-called "vulture" fund has been given permission by a British court to enforce a claim for tens of millions of dollars theoretically owed by Zambia. The decision was…
Battle of the bulb
The British and Kenyan governments weighed into the growing debate over "food miles" this week, insisting it was ethically and environmentally sound to buy flowers from Kenya on…