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To greenwash or do the right thing? Corporate dilemmas at COP28
To greenwash or do the right thing? Corporate dilemmas at COP28
Economy
by  AFP

They call the giant climate business expo running outside the COP28 United Nations talks in Dubai the "green zone". With the enormous former Expo 2020 site given over to green -- and not so green -- companies to trumpet their climate credentials, the private sector has never been embraced so warmly at a climate summit as it has been in the oil-rich city state.

Nuclear power has role to play, atomic energy head tells AFP at COP28
Nuclear power has role to play, atomic energy head tells AFP at COP28
Economy
by  AFP

It would be a mistake to reject nuclear power because of problems at a handful of projects, Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said in an interview with AFP. Grossi was speaking at the COP28 conference in Dubai, where on Saturday a group of large countries are expected to call for nuclear power capacity to be tripled by 2050 as part of the fight against global warming.