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...Issues including “international opinion” and “environmental concerns . . . make expansion of coal-based thermal generation beyond a limit, an infeasible option”, it said....
...The International Energy Agency has said that the maximum sustainable level of biomass consumption, which does not include biomass consumed as food, is around 102 exajoules per year....
...Kingsmill Bond of RMI, a US clean energy non-profit, laments that “people are doing it simply because they have yet to break out of the 20th century mindset of thinking that fossil fuels are the route to...
...These findings are supported by the International Energy Agency’s most recent forecast. Almost one in five cars sold worldwide this year will be an electric vehicle, the organisation said....
...Overall, it has been a tiny sliver of the hundreds of billions going into clean energy globally, notes RMI’s Kingsmill Bond....
...The short-term attractions are obvious, says Kingsmill Bond at the energy think-tank RMI, but he sees the recent oil and gas rally as a blip....
...“I’ve seen more CEOs here in the last eight days, than I have at the previous eight years of COPs,” said Jules Kortenhorst, chief executive of RMI, a Colorado-based think-tank....
...Emissions are difficult to measure but the International Energy Agency said about 60 per cent of the 570m tonnes emitted last year were related to human activities such as agriculture, energy production...
...For Jules Kortenhorst, a veteran COP-goer and head of the influential non-profit consultancy RMI, businesses’ interest in climate action is much welcomed — but also a trend to be handled with care....
...It reports the excellent news that member companies of the International Council on Mining and Metals will be expected to exercise “transparent disclosure of the site-level validation of progress on these...
...AstraZeneca remains a quite small company in an international context though, with future performance reliant on half a dozen drugs....
...Our preferred large cap stocks are Howden and Travis Perkins, where the market is underestimating RMI. We see more value in the small caps....
...First, the industry obviously needs international travel to resume and ports to reopen to ships....
...“The New England [India Pale Ales] uses around six times more hops than normal IPAs,” says Scott Casey at brewing materials consultancy RMI Analytics....
...Some of the country’s crop has also been attacked by a new aphid-like pest, weakening the plants, according to analyst Scott Casey at brewing materials consultancy RMI Analytics....
...For once it’s a rosy outlook,” says Scott Casey, analyst at brewing materials consultancy RMI Analytics....
...Even in Brazil, where the slowing economy is biting, the sector is still “going great guns”, says Scott Casey, analyst at brewing materials consultancy RMI Analytics....
.... —— We are struck by the higher valuation of Glencore against not just the Japanese traders but also the international miners and securities brokers....
...increase as high $700m if they were unhedged or have not bought forward, says Matthias Wree of RMI....
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