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Negotiators were at odds over how quickly to end free CO2 permits the EU gives industries to protect from foreign competition.European Union negotiators have reached an agreement on overhauling the bloc's carbon market, the central plank of its ambitions to reduce emissions and invest in climate-friendly technologies.

Africa's most industrialised economy is heavily dependent on coal, which generates 80 percent of its electricity.South Africa, one of the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitters, has been granted financing of $497m to decommission one of its largest coal-fired power plants and convert it to renewable energy, the World Bank said.

CLIMATEWIRE | EPA will release its most stringent power plant standards in history Thursday, but it won't be enough on its own to deliver President Joe Biden's near-future climate goals.Biden has built his commitment to the Paris Agreement around a U.S. power grid that runs on 80 percent clean energy by 2030 and that has net-zero emissions five years later.

Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, on Thursday defended Moscow's mass missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, calling it a legitimate military target, despite warnings by the United Nations that the strikes could amount to war crimes.Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Mr. Lavrov said that the repeated strikes against Ukraine's infrastructure  which have knocked out electricity and water for millions of people as winter looms  were justified because Russia is hitting targets that are used to replenish Ukrainian forces with weapons provided by Western nations.

KYIV  Ukrainian efforts to stabilize some of the country's battered electricity supply and make a dent in the seemingly endless task of demining swaths of the country offered a glimpse into the Herculean task that lies ahead off the battlefield.For the first time since Moscow this past week carried out its largest assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, the national energy utility said on Saturday that it was again able to use planned, coordinated blackouts to keep the national grid stabilized rather than resorting to emergency power shutdowns.

This photograph taken Thursday shows empty platforms at the Montparnasse station in Paris.(Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images)PARIS - France faced some of the most coordinated strikes in years on Thursday, which could evolve into weeks of discontent as unions seek to show a united front against plans to raise the country's sacred retirement age from 62 to 64.

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's state electricity operator on Saturday announced blackouts in Kyiv and seven other regions of the country in the aftermath of Russia's devastating strikes on energy infrastructure.The move comes as Russian forces continue to pound Ukrainian cities and villages with missiles and drones, inflicting damage on power plants, water supplies and other civilian targets, in a grinding war that is nearing its nine-month mark.

Russian forces continue to pound Ukrainian targets with missiles and drones, attacking cities and infrastructure.Ukraine's state electricity operator has announced blackouts in the capital, Kyiv, and seven other regions of the country in the aftermath of Russia's devastating strikes on energy infrastructure.

The first of several ships that will serve as floating terminals to receive liquefied natural gas imports in Germany arrived Wednesday off the Baltic Sea port of Mukran.In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Germany has scrambled to secure alternative sources of gas to replace Russian supplies, on which the country had long relied.

There will be no blackouts this winter unless Britain suffers a major external shock to its power supply, a Cabinet minister has said.There have been fears of pressure on the electricity grid if imports from Europe dry up amid a squeeze on global energy supplies, with potential for the first planned outages in decades during the colder months.

People in Britain will be given money back on their bills for using energy at off-peak times this winter in a new scheme aimed at preventing the first planned blackouts in decades.Gas power plants are expected to require roughly a fifth more gas than usual in the coming months as a result of electricity imports from France, Belgium and the Netherlands likely decreasing with European energy supplies facing a challenging winter following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

People in Britain will be given money back on their bills for using energy at off-peak times this winter in a new scheme aimed at preventing the first planned blackouts in decades.Gas power plants are expected to require roughly a fifth more gas than usual in the coming months as a result of electricity imports from France, Belgium and the Netherlands likely decreasing with European energy supplies facing a challenging winter following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Explosions rocked two air bases in Russia on Monday, Russian media reported.ne of the blasts reportedly happened at a base which houses nuclear-capable strategic bombers that have been involved in launching strikes against Ukraine.Neither Ukrainian nor Russian authorities immediately commented on the possible cause of the explosions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday told G20 leaders there was a "terrorist state" among them, accusing Russia of a missile strike on Poland that killed two people.Speaking by video link, Zelenskyy called the strike "a true statement brought by Russia for the G20 summit."

The EU is on track to break a promise to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030 made due to a policy vacuum on livestock emissions, a new report has warned.Methane is the second biggest contributor to global heating after carbon dioxide, with a greenhouse gas impact at least 27 times worse than CO2 over a 100-year time span.

We again recommend you to leave the city and the western bank of the Dnipro, Stremousov said in a video message published on Telegram.The situation today is difficult, Russian Education Minister Sergey Kravtsov said in a video message.About 25,000 residents leave Russian-occupied city on ferries and buses as fears grow of an imminent Ukrainian attack.