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Geopolitical disruption through events like Russia’s war on Ukraine or a new transatlantic rift can speed up the rapid build-up of renewable energies, says Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

China’s central government listed “boosting consumption…and stimulating domestic demand” as its first “major task” for 2025, at the recently closed “two sessions”.

A consortium linked to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has built a plant at the Mannheim wastewater treatment plant that cleans generated biogas and uses the resulting CO2 to produce climate-neutral marine fuel using green hydrogen.

Vietnam's business giant Vingroup, globally known for its electric vehicles, is set to enter the energy sector, focusing on wind, solar, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plants. The total investment could reach up to $30 billion.

A former migrant worker and chauffeur in Indonesia has pioneered the use of biogas in his home village near the city of Yogyakarta on Java Island.

To attract investment from high-tech industries, the de facto leader of Thailand’s ruling Pheu Thai Party, Thaksin Shinawatra, announced that the government will increase the use of renewable energy sources like solar power.

The harvesting and burning of forest biomass to produce energy continues to surge. This growth comes despite scientists’ warnings of the industry’s harm to the climate and its contribution to deforestation — increasingly in the tropics.

U.S. Treasury officials have confirmed that the United States has withdrawn from the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), refusing to provide the financing needed by developing countries for climate transformation.

Chemicals company BASF has started tests in the depths of the Upper Rhine Plain to explore the potential of using geothermal energy, business daily Handelsblatt reported.

Since President Trump took office, he has imposed additional tariffs on many imported products, raising concerns in some Southeast Asian countries about the potential impact and prompting them to devise countermeasures.