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UAE’s renewables push for sustainability

The case to push for renewable energies has never been stronger before. The drop in prices of traditional energies such as oil, gas and coal, spurred unprecedented investments in clean energy, especially in 2015. Cheaper cost, driven by technology to produce the renewable energy, is a key factor to resort to the clean energy sector. Recent solar and wind auctions ...

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The Eurasian EU’s Armenia problem

Catherine Putz SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS Leaders from the Eurasian Economic Union are set to meet on April 8 in Yerevan, Armenia. But in light of the recent heat-up of that country’s frozen conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, the union’s other members are looking for a change in venue. The EEU encompasses Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. RFE/RL ...

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Japan’s nuclear weapons conundrum

Since 1967, when then-Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato introduced the “three non-nuclear principles,” Japan has existed in a state of contradiction when it comes to the question of nuclear weapons’ place in the world: while Japanese leaders call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons, they simultaneously acknowledge the importance of nuclear deterrence and Japan’s reliance on the U.S. nuclear ...

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