Bloomberg Singapore enhanced its pledge to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases it emits, saying it now aims to halve emissions from an expected peak in 2030 within the following two decades. The Southeast Asian city-state expects the emissions ceiling to be 65 million tons of carbon dioxide around 2030, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said in Parliament. That will ...

Bloomberg French oil company Total SA is among the final bidders for a stake in an offshore wind farm that may cost more than $7 billion to develop and operate, according to people familiar with the matter. The move is significant because it highlights growing interest from major oil companies in renewables assets. It also would be the first facility ...

Bloomberg State Grid Corp of China started construction of a $2.6 billion ultra-high voltage project that will deliver electricity to the virus-hit province of Hubei. The move by the country’s biggest power distributor is in response to the government’s call to accelerate construction of major energy projects as Chinese leader Xi Jinping seeks to stabilize economic growth, State Grid said ...

Bloomberg The economic bounce from Boris Johnson’s Brexit breakthrough could be cut short as the coronavirus casts a pall on the nascent recovery. While there have been signs of a rebound in investment, retail sales and even house prices, Britain is an open economy that’s particularly susceptible to global events. The virus is already having an impact on the UK, ...

Bloomberg French Europe Minister Amelie de Montchalin fired a series of warnings at Boris Johnson over the next stage of Brexit talks, saying the UK’s threat to leave the European Union without a trade deal was “for the birds.” Speaking in London a day after Johnson published his proposals for a free trade deal with the EU, de Montchalin rejected ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook suggested the iPhone maker wouldn’t make any quick moves out of China in light of interruptions due to the coronavirus and called the situation a “temporary condition.” “We’re talking about adjusting some knobs, not some sort of wholesale, fundamental change,” he said in an interview aired on Fox Business. Apple’s China-focused supply ...

Bloomberg Brazil’s government is likely to cut its 2.4% growth forecast for the economy in 2020 to take into account the impact of the coronavirus in slowing global activity, a person familiar with the matter said. A lower-than-expected gross domestic product expansion would lead to reduced inflationary pressure, which may open some space for the central bank to cut the ...

Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc drivers and takeout delivery workers have a new champion in European Union’s (EU) antitrust chief, who wants to help them fight for better pay and conditions. In an interview with Bloomberg, Margrethe Vestager says she’s looking at ways to help “people who work in a weak negotiating position” amid concerns about the plight of workers in ...

Bloomberg Google cancelled a major internal gathering over concerns about the spread of coronavirus, the latest in a wave of events and conferences being called off around the world. The internet giant’s sales and marketing event was set to take place in Las Vegas in March, a Google spokesman said. “In light of the evolving coronavirus situation we made the ...

For decades, the relationship between the world’s two largest democracies, the United States and India, has been held together by two things: hope, and shared values. Hope that India’s rise will not be too long delayed, and that the US will welcome it as an exemplary, responsible great power that helps maintain the global liberal order — because of the ...