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Oil and gas companies would need to spend just a small fraction of their earnings on minimizing methane releases to have an outsize impact on curbing climate-altering greenhouse-gas emissions, but action has been lacking, the International…

U.S. companies are facing fewer shareholder proposals on social issues this year but more calls for climate action. Anti-ESG ones are increasing, too.For annual general meetings taking place in the first six months of the year, shareholders…

Marketers are often running digital ads on websites that provide relatively low returns on their investment but generate comparatively high carbon emissions, a new study said.Roughly 15% of ad spending in the study went to so-called…

Global companies are combining their purchasing power to help commercialize low-carbon technologies as part of their efforts to meet net-zero commitments.One of the biggest corporate spending plans announced at the United Nations climate…

WASHINGTON—As war and the pandemic expose the fragility of supply chains, the U.S. and its allies are pursuing a new kind of global trade, one that confines commerce to a circle of trusted nations. Fans call the shift “friend-shoring.”The…

Climate experts on a United Nations panel recently expressed concern about the state of climate science, saying the past decade saw the highest average yearly greenhouse-gas emissions from human activities ever recorded. Countries, they…

The surge in global energy prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sure doesn’t seem like any sort of blessing. It has driven up inflation, squeezed household budgets and battered President  Biden’s approval ratings.And yet for Mr.…

Koch Industries Inc., the energy-based conglomerate whose CEO long opposed environmental regulation and funded groups that questioned climate change, has emerged as one of the biggest financial backers of the…

WASHINGTON—The U.S.-led effort to expel Russia from international commerce marks another fracture in the free-trade vision that guided American policy for nearly 30 years, signaling a future where nations and companies shift away from…

DUBAI—A tech industry is growing in Dubai, spurred by the pandemic, as startups here attract interest from international venture firms, including SoftBank Group Corp. and Sequoia Capital.Dubai largely kept its…