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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends a protest in London outside a major oil and gas industry meeting, warning that the "world is drowning in fossil fuels". "Behind these closed doors at the oil and money conference, spineless politicians are making deals and compromises with lobbyists from destructive industries, the fossil fuel industry," she tells protesters and media gathered outside the Intercontinental Park Lane hotel where the Energy Intelligence Forum is being held. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron visits aircraft engine manufacturer Safran's plant in Villaroche, north-central France, before announcing a series of grants and investments worth several hundred million euros to develop the green aerospace industry. IMAGES
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a state of national disaster in an attempt to tackle the severe electricity crisis that stalling daily life and the economy of the continent’s largest industrial power. IMAGES
Partisans of the South African main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), take to the streets to protest a prolonged energy crisis causing record power cuts in South Africa. Frequent blackouts, known as load-shedding, have burdened the country for years, with state-owned energy firm Eskom failing to keep pace with demand and maintain its ageing coal power infrastructure. IMAGES
EU finance ministers meet in Luxembourg for the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN), as Europe finds itself in the midst of an energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. IMAGES
Eurozone finance ministers meet in Luxembourg to discuss the surge in energy prices. Europe is struggling with historically high prices as it faces an early autumn cold snap and a coming winter almost certainly to be endured without crucial Russian gas supplies because of the war in Ukraine. IMAGES
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