China will curb development of projects that use large amounts of energy and have high carbon emissions, the state planner said on Tuesday, as the country struggles to meet its climate pledges with many regions falling short of their targets for the year.
A Chinese-backed consortium building infrastructure for a massive iron ore mine in Guinea started blasting a railway tunnel in a habitat for a critically endangered chimpanzee species with no plan in place to manage the impact on the animals, company and government statements and satellite imagery show.
London's FTSE 100 index will lose its second largest company by market capitalisation if shareholders back plans by global resource giant BHP Group (BHP.AX), (BHPB.L) to end its dual listing structure and make Australia its primary stock market.