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Airbus, Qantas close to first joint sustainable aviation fuel investment
Date: February 27, 2023
By Jamie Freed MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Airbus SE and Qantas Airways Ltd plan to announce the first investment from a $200 million fund to develop a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry in Australia within about a month, an Airbus executive said on Monday. The companies established the fund last year after Qantas set a target...
SpaceX set to launch next International Space Station crew for NASA
Date: February 27, 2023
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX was set to launch early on Monday the International Space Station’s next long-duration team into orbit, with an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates and a Russian cosmonaut joining two NASA crewmates for the flight. The SpaceX launch vehicle,...
The silver lining for global trade
Date: February 24, 2023
In focus – The silver lining amid muted global trade: normalizing supply chains After resilient performance in the first half of 2022, global trade deteriorated in the second half of the year and is likely to remain muted in 2023. However, China’s reopening reduces the risk of sudden stops in global supply chains, while moderately...
New French fund with 87.5 million euros targets African solar development
Date: February 24, 2023
PARIS (Reuters) – A new investment fund with 87.5 million euros ($92.63 million) will finance solar power production across Africa, with a focus on West and Central Africa, French fund manager RGREEN INVEST and investment adviser ECHOSYS INVEST said on Friday. The AFRIGREEEN Debt Impact Fund’s first closing will finance on- and off-grid solar power...
Flu experts gather with H5N1 risk on the agenda
Date: February 24, 2023
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s leading experts on influenza met this week to discuss the threat posed to humans by a strain of H5N1 avian flu that has caused record numbers of bird deaths around the world in recent months. The group of scientists, regulators and vaccine manufacturers meets twice a year...
German GDP contracted by 0.4% in the fourth quarter
Date: February 24, 2023
BERLIN (Reuters) -The German economy contracted at the end of the year, as inflation and the energy crisis took their toll on household consumption and capital investment. The German economy shrank by 0.4% in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared with the previous three months, the statistics office said on Friday. Preliminary data from the...