The major gas leak from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline last year pushed Sweden’s annual plant-heating emissions upby 7%, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency reported Thursday.
While Ukrainian diplomats take part in negotiations at the United Nations COP28 climate talks, Russia’s war on the country lurks just in the background.
Germany is facing its second winter without gas deliveries from Russia. But analysts say that for gas shortages to really bite, a lot of things would have to go wrong. Germans themselves are optimistic.
The U.S Treasury adds a significant number of Russian individuals and companies to its sanctions list. It means trouble for the developers of liquified natural gas and new mines in the Russian Arctic.
The head of the United Nations food agency says a global hunger crisis has left more than 700 million people not knowing when or if they will eat again.
