Bloomberg Companies are defending Britain’s net-zero plans as the best way to resolve the energy crisis in the long term, after a report that close advisers to the prime minister are warning that a rethink of the policy is needed. Chief executives of SSE Plc and the UK arm of Siemens AG said that a faster pivot toward renewables ...

  Bloomberg The US and Japan are close to an agreement that would partially remove tariffs imposed on Japanese steel imports in 2018, Kyodo reported without saying where it got the information. The two countries haven’t finalised the size of a tariff-free import quota and some other details, Kyodo reported, citing anonymous sources. Japan has been calling for a complete ...

  If Russia invades Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin will face an immediate and difficult choice: how far to go. Most analysts believe he will probably move forward with an invasion, but is likely to have his military stop within the pro-Russian enclaves of southeastern Ukraine. This would allow him to declare independence for the Donbas region and secure a “land ...