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Both harness a natural propellant that oceangoing vessels have depended on for centuries: the wind. And they’re part of a growing effort to move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels. “We want to decarbonize — why not use what’s available?” said Jan Dieleman, president of Cargill Ocean Transportation, which charters about 700 ships. “Wind is free fuel.” The worldwide shipping industry is responsible for about 3% of the greenhouse gases that are dangerously heating the planet.

Qantas shares fell on Tuesday after brokers began downgrading the stock, concerned higher spending on repairing its relationship with customers and higher fuel expenses will end a run of higher profits.

The NSW government’s $108 billion investment manager is facing a shake-up, as Treasurer Daniel Mookhey orders a consolidation of its funds as part of a strategy to slash the state’s debt bill.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has urged Germany’s opposition and regional governments to help slash a “thicket of bureaucracy” that slows down Europe’s biggest economy, as his government grapples with poor poll ratings and a reputation for internal strife hal...

The Supreme Court in May sharply curtailed the Clean Water Act's power to protect millions of acres of wetlands

₹16,000 crore). As per their MCA filings, M-League Private Limited, the Singapore-based parent company that owns MPL, spent $92 million or ₹752 crore on advertising and promotional expenses in FY22, which was an 81% increase over FY21.

Bunnings will cut 100 jobs from its New Zealand head office in a bid to become more efficient at a time when consumers are slowing their spending and seeking lower prices.

MUMBAI : Private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) funds are slashing the management fees they charge investors to enhance returns, cut investing costs, and attract funds, according to portfolio managers and limited partners. The emergence of multi-fund platforms led several PE and VC firms to move away from the traditional ‘2-20 model’, or 2% management fee and 20% carry, where the fund retains a part of the investment profit upon realization. To be sure, this new trend is seen in firms raising multiple funds with large corpus and smaller ones that are into their subsequent fund cycles.

The friction stems from moves by top NFT exchanges Blur and OpenSea to slash royalty rates payable to artists when a token’s ownership changes, in the hope that lower costs will lift depressed levels of buying and selling. But diminished artist income could stanch new work, ossifying a market where trading volumes have already crashed 95% from $17 billion in January 2022, according to figures from Token Terminal. Royalties peaked that month at $269 million but were just $4.3 million in July this year as the rates paid fell to 0.6% per transaction from as much as 5%, researcher Nansen said.

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music festival starting in northern Germany on Wednesday was forced to cap attendance after heavy rains turned its outdoor venue into a muddy quagmire. Organisers of the annual Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) bash, featuring 150 bands on eight stages over four days, said the event would go forward as planned but with only around 60 percent of the 85,000 ticket-holders after imposing an entry freeze. In messages to «dear metalheads» on social media, the promoters said they regretted having to cap the total audience at the around 50,000 fans who were already present, calling the situation «very sad». «We tried everything but unfortunately we are unable to allow anyone else onto the Holy Ground,» they said, referring to the sprawling rural venue. «There is no other way,» they added, calling it the «first time we've taken this decision in the history of the W:O:A.»

Samsung Electronics Co. is considering adding an affordable option to its portfolio of foldable phones, in a move to hasten adoption of the novel form factor.

Indian Railways on Saturday announced that it was delegating powers to the Zonal Railways to introduce discounted fare scheme in trains with AC chair cars. «With a view to optimize utilization of accommodation in trains, Ministry of Railways has decided to delegate powers to Zonal Railways to introduce discounted fare scheme in trains with AC sitting accommodation, subject to terms and conditions,» a press release from the government read. «This scheme shall be applicable in AC chair car and executive classes of all trains having AC seating accommodation, including Anubhuti and Vistadome coaches,» the Railway Board order stated.

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The president of this year’s United Nations’ climate talks urged the oil and gas industry Thursday to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by or before 2050 in a speech to oil producing states

Maritime nations agreed Friday to slash emissions from the shipping industry to net zero by about 2050 in a deal that many experts and some nations say falls well short of what’s needed to curb warming to agreed temperature limits

BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Larry Fink called bitcoin an “international asset” and said the money manager wants to use its heft to make it less expensive and easier to invest in the cryptocurrency.

Twitter’s new rate limits are severely affecting the indexing and display of tweets on Google’s search engine, limiting the reach of the information shared on the microblogging site.

UBS is preparing a dramatic cull of Credit Suisse bankers in wake of its rescue deal for its Swiss rival.

Polygon, the scalable Ethereum layer-2 solution, has announced its intent to optimize its zkEVM (Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine) in the coming weeks. These enhancements are predicted to decrease transaction fees by around 20%, according to the company's official Twitter account. Interestingly, these improvements will be achieved without the need for any data compression techniques.