Crude futures increased by about 2 percent on Tuesday, with the bounce attributed to technical price triggers, expectations for a weekly decline in U.S. crude supplies and gasoline demand. However, a stronger dollar did little to temper the hike. Brent crude futures rose by $1.11, or 1.8 percent, to close at $64.45 a barrel. U.S. crude futures closed at $61.01, up 63 cents, or 1 percent.
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The South Korea Government envisages increasing its nuclear reactor fleet by two more units, as the country wants to get rid of coal power and to focus on technologies with lower greenhouse gas emissions.
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Germany's government is still evaluating all suggestions on how to reduce CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants, as declared by an economy ministry spokesman on Wednesday, discharging a report that a debated coal levy had been put on ice.
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Norway's parliament voted on Friday to cut coal investments by its $880 billion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, in a decision greeted by ecologists as a model to support slow climate change.
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Thirty-two energy firms managed by Russia's Gazprom represent almost a third of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions if the burning of all the coal, oil and gas they produce is taken into consideration, according to a study on Wednesday.
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