Top coal funder Korea draws critique for slow phase-out plans
Financial institutions in South Korea have failed to keep up with their global peers in setting policies to exit the dirtiest fossil fuel, an activist group said.
A new rule taking effect in 2020 aimed at reducing pollution by cutting the sulfur content of maritime fuel will make sulfur-heavy oil sands crude less desirable.
Proposed geoscience surveys would identify areas with elevated uranium levels, the body representing the mining industry in the Atlantic province says.
Relations with Congolese authorities have grown increasingly strained in recent months as the government pushes for foreign investors to contribute more.