Bloomberg For the first time, more money was raised in the debt markets for climate-friendly projects than for fossil-fuel companies. Roughly $580 billion was arranged in 2022 for renewable energy and other environmentally responsible ventures, while the oil, gas and coal industries turned to lenders and underwriters for closer to $530 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. But …

  Bloomberg RWE AG and Equinor AS said they would build hydrogen power plants, as well as a pipeline to send the fuel to Germany from Norway. The two countries will “accelerate the creation of a functioning hydrogen market, a value chain,” Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said in Oslo, where he met German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck. The …

  Bloomberg The UK is failing to do enough to improve energy efficiency, which is needed to curb struggling households’ soaring bills, a parliamentary committee found. Government ministers must prioritise upgrading the country’s leaky housing, the Environmental Audit Committee’s report said. That includes setting a goal of at least 1 million energy-saving improvements like insulation, solar panels or heat pumps …