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The global rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic is set to drive emissions of greenhouse gases that stoke climate change to all-time highs, the Paris-based International Energy Agency said in a report on Tuesday.

OPEC and its allies, a group known as OPEC+, plan to hold their next meeting on Sunday to decide on their output policy, two OPEC+ sources told Reuters.

Oil prices fell on Wednesday over fresh concerns about demand after data showed that China’s first-half crude imports dropped, but were still holding near a one-week high amid worries about supplies as the world recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.

Saudi Arabia and Oman called on Monday for continued cooperation between OPEC and other allied producers to stabilise and balance the oil market, the Gulf states said in a joint statement. Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and Oman, a small non-OPEC …

Shell will join a project in Norway to produce hydrogen from natural gas while capturing the emissions, Aker Clean Hydrogen (ACH) said on Monday. Countries across Europe are looking at ways to produce emissions-free hydrogen to help reduce carbon emissions and avert global warming. Clean hydrogen can be produced from …

The European Union is set to take the lead in climate policy action among the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters this week, with a raft of ambitious plans designed to cut emissions drastically over the next decade. The policies, if approved, would put the bloc – the world’s third-largest economy …

Russia is leading efforts to close divisions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to help strike a deal to raise oil output in coming months, three OPEC+ sources said, with OPEC and its allies yet to set a date for their next oil policy meeting. Disagreement between the …

China will launch a nationwide carbon emissions trading scheme for the electricity sector in July, the cabinet said on Wednesday. The launch of the scheme aims to control and reduce greenhouse gas emissions viA THE market scheme, according to a meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang.

OPEC’s sudden disarray would seem to be an opportunity for U.S. shale producers to lock in profits, with oil prices near multi-year-highs, but sources at those companies say they are not taking chances with the market’s volatility. Shale producers are famous for boosting output whenever oil prices surge. However, the …

Iraq backs a proposal by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies to extend a pact on output curbs until December 2022, Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar said on Sunday, adding he expected oil prices to remain at $70 per barrel or above until then, reports Reuters. …