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Cox chief expects needs to rise at 10-15% rate a year as company seeks to raise €300mn on Madrid Stock Exchange

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Norway’s Equinor takes 10% stake in renewables group Ørsted

Company becomes second-largest shareholder in world’s biggest offshore wind farm developer behind Danish government

Basic resources

Like it or not, miners are still a China proxy

A jump in shares shows how the sector’s fortunes are tied to the prospects of the world’s second-largest economy

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Stopping the great AI energy squeeze will need more than data centres

Innovative solutions require joined up government, which is currently in short supply

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Utilities

Updated 2025-08-22T04:22:11.103Z

Taiwan weighs return to nuclear power amid AI surge and China fears

Referendum on restarting 40-year-old plant comes as energy security concerns and electricity costs grow

Donald Trump’s attacks on renewables sector quash nearly $19bn worth of projects

Stifled growth will hamper ability to meet energy demand from artificial intelligence, analysts say

Sweden to build more nuclear plants with US or UK technology

Vattenfall says it will chose between GE Vernova and Rolls-Royce’s small modular reactors

Climate Change

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US weather agency job cuts could jeopardise climate risk data, insurers warn

Reinsurance trade group lobbies US commerce secretary about potential impact to monitoring hurricanes and drought conditions

Banks’ climate alliance calls vote to ditch pledge on limiting warming to 1.5C

Proposal to weaken rules follows exodus of members since Trump election

US pulls out of flagship $45bn global climate finance coalition

Letters were sent to South Africa, Indonesia and Vietnam about withdrawal

Basic Resources

Updated 2025-08-22T17:58:23.028Z

Government supporting four out of six of UK’s steel companies

Intervention at Speciality Steel deepens taxpayer support for struggling but strategically important sector

US could meet critical minerals needs from mining waste, study finds

China dominates production of crucial materials as other nations push to shore up their supplies

UK will take over key part of Sanjeev Gupta’s steel business

Court rules ‘hopelessly insolvent’ Speciality Steel should be placed in compulsory liquidation

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Medical research is creating new risks for the plastics sector

Disturbing microplastic studies keep emerging even as pollution treaty efforts stall

Fund managers turn a blind eye to Gaza at their peril

Scandal at Norway’s $1.9tn oil fund highlights risks for asset managers

Energy Source

Updated 2025-08-21T11:00:08.292Z

Will expanded access to US federal lands spur oil and gas output?

The Trump administration policy may not be enough to fulfil the president’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda

France ‘flexes’ nuclear output as solar reshapes European energy

Country’s reactors are adjusting output more frequently as more renewables come online

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Efficiency is becoming a bigger priority as tech companies confront strained energy resources

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