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29th Mar 2024

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Biden: US will cut emissions by 50 percent by 2030

President Joe Biden announced at a virtual climate summit of dozens of world leaders that the US will aim to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions by between 50 percent and 52 percent by 2030, based on 2005 levels. He added that the new US goal will set it on the path to net-zero emissions by 2050, and that other countries now needed to raise their ambition.

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Opinion

EU Modernisation Fund: an open door for fossil gas in Romania

Among the largest sources of financing for energy transition of central and eastern European countries, the €60bn Modernisation Fund remains far from the public eye. And perhaps that's one reason it is often used for financing fossil gas projects.

'Swiftly dial back' interest rates, ECB told

Italian central banker Piero Cipollone in his first monetary policy speech since joining the ECB's board in November, said that the bank should be ready to "swiftly dial back our restrictive monetary policy stance."

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