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G7 leaders have agreed to phase out fossil fuel emissions this century in the fight against climate change. The decision has been called historic but are oil, gas and coal companies ready to implement it? David Pollard reports.
Environment and climate ministers from the G7 - US, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Japan and Italy - pose for a group photo in the Palace of Venaria near Turin, where the Group of Seven industrialised nations are meeting for two days of talks on the climate. The meeting in the northern Italian city is the first big political session since the world pledged at the UN's COP28 climate summit in December to transition away from coal, oil and gas. IMAGES
German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann qualifies Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy supplies as "war crimes," after a meeting between G7 justice ministers concerning war crimes in Ukraine. "People are left in their homes, in a winter that could possibly reach -30 degrees; then this is a terrible war crime. Winter is used as a weapon," he states. SOUNDBITE
Madrid, Sep 14 (EFE) .- The Spanish stock market has lost 0.41% and the level of 8,800 points this Tuesday, affected by the fall in Wall Street despite the decline in US inflation in August, as well as the drop of the electricity sector due to the government's plans to lower the electricity rate and the decrease in tourism companies, according to market data.
A unique wave testing tank in Edinburgh is creating ripples in the renewable energy community. As Jim Drury reports, it could provide cheap, sustainable power for mobile fish farms.