Kansai Electric Power’s plan next month to relaunch the last idle reactor at its flagship nuclear plant, capping a year-long series of restarts, will mark an energy shift in Japan with the sharpest drop in […]
Many governments in the Western world have committed to “net zero” emissions of carbon in the near future. The US and UK both say they will deliver by 2050. It’s widely believed that wind and […]
The BRICS economic bloc — comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — ended a three-day summit in South Africa on Thursday. It’s not often that a major international conference of national heads of […]
As the rest of the world grapples with rising living costs, China is facing the opposite problem: falling prices. In July, the world’s second-largest economy officially slipped into deflation for the first time in two […]
Is the much-hyped “energy transition” starting to crumble at its foundations now? In recent weeks we have seen the following: Ford Motor Company warns investors its electric vehicle division will lose $4.5 billion in 2023; […]
Indonesia burned 33% more coal in 2022 than the year before, contributing to a 20% increase in the country’s carbon emissions from fossil fuels, an analysis of official data shows. This will likely catapult Indonesia […]
As the Gulf Arab states seek to gradually transition away from hydrocarbon dependence, Japan has stepped in as a partner, deepening its strategic and economic ties with the United Arab Emirates and the wider region. […]
Powerful winds and lashing rain from an approaching typhoon have killed at least one person and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people in southern Japan. The slow-moving Typhoon Khanun, which was nearing […]
The world’s advanced economies have committed to phasing out coal over the next seven years. But not Japan, which stands alone in insisting it can make coal less damaging to the planet. Nowhere is that […]
EconomyInflation Japan’s consumer prices rose at a faster pace in June, staying above the central bank’s target for the 15th consecutive month. Japan’s core consumer inflation hit 3.3 percent year-on-year last month, compared with price […]
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