A financing scheme that draws on funding from Western donors to help developing countries shift to cleaner power generation could be mirrored for heavy industries and other hard-to-abate sectors, Egypt's climate champion said.
Mahmoud Mohieldin
A financing scheme that draws on funding from Western donors to help developing countries shift to cleaner power generation could be mirrored for heavy industries and other hard-to-abate sectors, Egypt's climate champion said.
Extending a Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) structure to sectors including steel, aluminium, cement and fertilisers made sense because of new European Union rules that would otherwise penalise developing world exporters, U.N. Climate Change High-Level Champion Mahmoud Mohieldin said in an interview.
Indian-origin steel tycoon Lakshmi N. Mittal, long considered one of Britain’s wealthiest residents, is reportedly preparing to shift his base away from the UK as Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government moves ahead with new tax measures targeting the super-rich, The Sunday Times reported.
Dubai has secured its place as the world’s second-largest gold trading hub, despite having no domestic production and limited historical ties to the industry.
A senior Hamas delegation met Egypt's intelligence chief in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the ceasefire agreement and the situation in Gaza, the group said, as both Israel and the Palestinian militant group continue to trade accusations of truce violations.
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