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Dubai’s government-owned utility plans to double the size of a solar power project that it expects will produce some of the world’s cheapest electricity.

Brazil’s development bank boosted financing for wind power 83 percent last year, and it expects to approve more loans this year.

Air pollution hit hazardous levels in Beijing today, presenting a new challenge to leaders who have tried to curb smog via higher taxes and casting a pall over the city’s bid for the 2022 Olympic G

BP Plc (BP/) faces a maximum fine of $13.7 billion after a U.S. judge ruled that the company dumped 3.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 -- about a quarter less than the U.S.

International conflict and water crises lead the list of Top 10 global risks, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum ahead of next week’s meeting in Davos.

China is expected to start construction on at least five nuclear reactors this year, underscoring the country’s commitment to atomic energy as a means to help control pollution and fuel growth.

Work on India’s first river-linking project connecting the northern Ken and Betwa rivers will begin in April at the earliest, said Anuj Kumar Bishnoi, senior-most bureaucrat in the water ministry.

Europe’s attempt to revive its carbon market is being thwarted by a lack of pollution.

A month’s walk from the nearest sea, Kathmandu -- elevation almost a mile -- is as vulnerable to climate change as the world’s coastal megacities.