Bloomberg The US and China barreled into their first high-level talks since March trading sanctions and rhetorical barbs, raising the stakes for the effort to stabilise strained relations between the world’s two largest economies. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, the US’s No. 2 diplomat, is set to meet Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday in Tianjin, about 60 miles …

Bloomberg The world’s biggest platinum miners are ramping up plans to build renewable energy plants to free them from power outages that have plagued South Africa for more than a decade and to reduce their carbon footprint. Sibanye Stillwater Ltd, the No. 1 platinum miner, Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd and Anglo American Platinum Ltd said they plan to scale up …

Bloomberg Offshore wind farm developers are finding one more thing in common with the fossil fuel industry: community backlash on both sides of the Atlantic. Much like the resistance to fracking in parts of the US and the UK, oceanfront towns have fought against power lines running ashore from wind farms, even as the massive turbines themselves are mostly out …