US President Joe Biden has started his first international trip since entering the White House as commander in chief. No American president since Dwight D. Eisenhower in the early 1960s has waited so long to make their first overseas trip. In fact, by this time in their administrations, George W. Bush and Donald Trump had already each traveled to seven countries and Barack
THE HAGUE: Fewer hooligans will travel to Euro 2020 because of Covid restrictions but they will be more difficult to trace, European police warned Thursday as they unveiled a special operations hub in the Netherlands. Officers from each of the 24 nations playing in the tournament across 11 countries will spend the next month monitoring threats from the control room at the EU’s
RIYADH: The Arab coalition said on Thursday that Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed a booby-trapped drone launched by the Houthi militia toward Khamis Mushait in southwestern Saudi Arabia. The coalition said it was “taking operational measures to protect civilians and civilian objects from hostile attacks.” The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen have stepped up
Canadian oil sands producers commit to net-zero
Jun 10, 2021 4:00:pm
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Canadian oil sands producers commit to net-zero
Five of Canada’s largest oil sands producers said June 9 they would embark on a path to net-zero by 2050, utilising a range of technologies to slash greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative is a collaboration of Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL), Cenovus Energy, ExxonMobil affiliate Imperial, MEG Energy and Suncor Energy, which collectively account for 90% of Canada’s oil sands production and contribute about 68mn mt/yr of CO
2 to Canada’s GHG inventory. Under the Pathways initiative, they plan to lower their overall emissions by 22mn mt/yr by 2030 and cut another 25mn mt by 2040 before reaching net-zero by 2050.
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s deputy culture minister met with the head of the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) for talks on joint cooperation initiatives. The meeting between Hamed bin Mohammed Fayez and the high representative for the alliance, Miguel Angel Moratinos, took place at the Saudi Ministry of Culture’s headquarters in the historic Al-Bujairi district of Diriyah.