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storyp1> BOGOTA, Oct 19 (Reuters) Almost 200 nations deal with a due date to report their nature conservation prepares to the United Nations ahead of a twoweek U.N. nature top dubbed COP16, beginning on Monday in the Colombian city of Cali. Here is what you require to understand: WHY ARE NATIONS MAKING NATURE PLEDGES? These pledges must set out how each nation plans to contribute to conference international nature targets agreed on at the last U.N. Biodiversity Summit, COP15, held in Montreal in 2022. The arrangement, called the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Structure, established four general objectives for 2050 and a...

A Polish district attorney has charged two former supervisors of refiner Orlen's Swiss trading system for breaking the nation's business rules for entering into contracts for oil deliveries that the company never received, losing it nearly $400 million. The regional prosecutor's office in Warsaw said on Wednesday it had evidence that the former CEO of Orlen Trading Switzerland (OTS) and a previous member of the business's. management board were in hiding. The district attorney had requested an. arrest warrant to look for them. Described just as Samer A. and Marcin O. due to local. privacy laws, the 2 are implicated...

California's lawsuit on Monday accusing Exxon of sustaining worldwide plastic waste pollution by misleading the general public about the constraints of recycling is the most recent in a line of recent cases based upon a centuriesold legal theory referred to as public annoyance. Here is a look at how public annoyance claims work, how such claims have fared and what it might mean for California's effort. WHAT IS PUBLIC NUISANCE? A public problem claim is one that can be brought against defendants based on behavior that disrupts a right that belongs to the general public, rather than to an individual....

Agrochemicals company Syngenta is cutting simply over 10% of its labor force at its Swiss head office in Basel, newspaper TagesAnzeiger reported on Wednesday, following a big slump in its crop security service this year. Approximately 150 of the 1,100 positions in the city will be impacted at the Chinese-owned company which employs 60,000 people globally. The cuts are affecting all locations and levels of the heirarchy, Syngenta supervisor Alexandra Brand name told the paper. The losses come after Syngenta, which produces seeds and crop protection sprays, reported a 17% drop in sales in the initially 6 months of 2024....

Both sides in Sudan's civil war have committed abuses on a large scale which might total up to war criminal activities or criminal activities against humanity, a U.N.mandated objective said on Friday, suggesting an arms embargo and a peacekeeping force to safeguard civilians. The 19-page report by a UN Fact-Finding Mission, based upon 182 interviews with survivors, their family members and witnesses, said that both the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Fast Assistance Forces (RSF) were responsible for attacks on civilians and had utilized torture and performed arbitrary arrests. The gravity of these findings underscores the urgent and immediate action...

A 2nd executive convicted in Switzerland for his participation in a $1.8 billion fraud against Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB will appeal versus the judgement, his lawyers stated. Patrick Mahony, a Swiss-British national, was sentenced to 6 years by the Federal Criminal Court on Wednesday. The court discovered him guilty of scams, criminal mismanagement and cash laundering. The decision was the latest episode in the 1MDB affair, a. complex tale of international corruption that has caught up a. slew of banks and individuals around the world. given that allegations of misdeed first surfaced in 2015. Mahony was founded guilty in...

Argentina's mining exports will more than double to around $10 billion in 2027 from some $4 billion this year, the nation's Mining Secretary Luis Lucero told Reuters, driven by a wave of lithium jobs coming online and a nascent push into copper. In his very first comments to worldwide media since taking office in April, Lucero stated electrical battery metal lithium would be the key driver of the mining export boom, with a batch of tasks set to go into production later on this year. The South American nation is making an aggressive push to cement itself as an essential...

The Swiss Federal Lawbreaker Court on Wednesday convicted 2 executives at an oil exploration business accused of embezzling over $1.8. billion from Malaysia's state mutual fund 1MDB. The decision was the latest episode in the 1MDB scandal, a. complex tale of global corruption that has buffeted a. variety of financial institutions and individuals across the globe. considering that allegations of misbehavior first emerged in 2015. Prosecutors declared that Swiss-British national Patrick. Mahony and Swiss-Saudi Tarek Obaid, helped to establish a joint. venture with 1MDB by producing the impression that their company,. PetroSaudi, was backed by the Saudi federal government. This...

The U.S. product markets regulator on Tuesday bought the Swiss energy trader TOTSA TotalEnergies Trading SA to pay a $48 million fine, declaring that the company had actually attempted to manipulate the market for European criteria gas futures. The scheme in this matter involved an attack on the marketplace stability of CFTC-regulated futures contracts on gasoline, and this settlement shows such attacks will not be tolerated in any market, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Enforcement Director Ian McGinley said in a statement. The parent company, TotalEnergies SE, did not immediately respond to requests for remark. According to the CFTC, in...

Oil trader Vitol is under examination in the Netherlands, the general public district attorney's workplace stated on Friday, validating a report by Dutch investigative news website Follow The Money (FTM). FTM on Thursday reported that the prosecutors' workplace was examining supposed bribery in Kazakhstan. Neither the district attorneys' office nor the business would verify the focus of the probe. A representative for the prosecutor's office said an examination had actually been launched but might not expose its nature. or scope. Vitol likewise verified it had been contacted by a Dutch. authority regarding specific historical activities in Kazakhstan. and stated it...

Global oil trader Vitol SA has actually agreed to pay $500,000 to settle civil charges from the U.S. Product Futures Trading Commission the company broke position limits for particular exchangetraded oil and livestock agreements, the regulator stated on Wednesday. Traders face limits to the scale of the speculative positions they can hold for certain commodities contracts. Vitol's Houston affiliate and the Geneva-based firm violated those limits a handful of times throughout 2022, the CFTC stated. The settlement marks the first time the CFTC has brought an action imposing position limitations held across several exchanges, the firm stated in a declaration....

German industrial gear maker Siemens posted betterthanexpected incomes development during the ApriltoJune quarter, buoyed by consumers who are upgrading their electricity infrastructure and by demand for production software. For its financial third quarter, Siemens on Thursday reported an 11% increase in operating revenue before certain products to 3.0 billion euros ($ 3.3 billion), beating the average analyst projection of 2.84 billion euros in a consensus posted on the group's website. The maker of trains and factory automation systems confirmed its guidance for its until end-September, saying extremely high orders for industrial software application was tempered by a tough environment for...

UBS stated on Thursday that significantly tighter supplies of copper in the coming six to 12 months might cause a deficit of more than 200,000 loads in 2025, as demand grows for the metal key to energy transition. Copper costs on the London Metal Exchange (LME) are forecast to typical $10,500 and $11,000 per metric lot in 2025 and 2026, respectively, UBS said. LME three-month copper struck an intra-day high at $ 9,578 a ton, though it was on track for a regular monthly fall. We are still positive about copper costs in the coming 2 years ... although rates...

Holcim reported better than expected operating profit throughout its third quarter, the construction products maker said on Friday, despite a. recession in sales. The company, which is planning to spin off its North. American service next year, published recurring operating profit. of 1.67 billion Swiss francs ($ 1.93 billion) for the 3. months to the end of September. The figure was somewhat ahead of expert forecasts for 1.65. billion francs in a company supplied agreement. The revenue was assisted by the business increasing its revenue. margin to 23.5% from 21.8% a year previously, as Holcim offered more. of its more...

storyp1> PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) Cement maker Holcim's Lafarge will deal with trial in a French court on charges that its Syrian subsidiary financed terrorism and breached European sanctions in order to keep a plant operating, France's antiterrorism district attorney and a lead complainant said. Lafarge, which became part of Swiss-listed Holcim in 2015, has actually been the topic of an investigation into its operations in Syria given that 2016, one of the most comprehensive business criminal proceedings in current French legal history. Investigative judges in Paris gave the order Lafarge face trial on Wednesday. In a declaration to Reuters...

Cyclone Milton might result in a $60 billion loss for the global insurance industry, developing a surge in 2025 reinsurance costs which might enhance some insurance provider' shares, analysts at RBC Capital stated. The Classification 5 cyclone is because of make landfall on the Gulf Coast of Florida late on Wednesday or early Thursday, and is potentially among the most damaging ever to strike the region, which is still recuperating from devastation brought on by Hurricane Helene less than two weeks earlier. More than one million people in seaside locations are under evacuation orders. A $60 billion loss would be...

Products trading business Trafigura has extended the notice period for traders leaving the company to a minimum of 6 months or approximately one year, three sources with knowledge of the matter said, after current worker departures. It is not known precisely when changes were made to extend the notice period, but the sources said they use to new and existing workers and depend on seniority levels. A longer notice duration might dissuade traders from using to operate at Trafigura, among the sources said. Trafigura declined to comment. Energy traders consisting of Mercuria, Gunvor and Vitol are going back to trading...

Battery startup Morrow on Friday opened Norway's first battery cell production site on the nation's south coast, with plans to provide the initially units by the end of the year and adding more production step by action. Battery cell production is one new market Norway is keen to get in, hoping to gain from access to green power and proximity to European consumers keen to source batteries away from China. Established in 2020, Morrow Batteries will at first utilize existing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) technology and its plant in Arendal, southern Norway, is Europe's first gigawatt LFP factory. The crucial...

Petrochemical producers in Europe and Asia are in survival mode as years of capability accumulation in leading market China and high energy costs in Europe have depressed margins for three successive years, forcing firms to combine. Here's a take a look at consolidation moves by major producers sumitacross the globe. EXXON MOBIL ExxonMobil Chemical France revealed in April it would shut down the steam cracker and close chemical production at Gravenchon this year, adding that the website has lost more than 500 million euros because 2018 and remains uncompetitive. FORMOSA PETROCHEMICAL The Taiwanese petrochemical giant has actually been operating only...

Glencore has developed 25,000 metric lots of unsold zinc due to the fact that of the growth and rampup of its Zhairem operation, part of its Kazzinc company in Kazakhstan, the business stated on Wednesday throughout a briefing call. We've had an accumulation in some stock, particularly in Kazakhstan in our zinc organization, so we've produced about 25,000 tonnes more than we offered ... Stocks will remain around the 25,000 level, said Glencore's primary monetary officer, Steven Kalmin. ( Zhairem) remains in quite a remote location and it's quite a. range from the processing centers, he said. A few of...

Glencore will not spin off its coal organization after securing backing from the majority of its financiers who see profitable profits from the fossil fuel after the products giant's. recent acquisition of Teck Resources' coking coal. possessions, it stated on Wednesday. Lack of financial investment in brand-new coal possessions and a realisation that. the fuel will stay part of the global energy mix for many years to. come is most likely to underpin tight supplies and high costs which. investors anticipate will continue to enhance Glencore's revenues. The London-listed miner had actually been canvassing investors on. whether to keep the...

Worldwide markets have begun the week in full selloff mode, with measures of volatility shooting up by the most on record in a single day, while equity futures and cryptocurrencies plummet, restoring memories of past crises. There is no lone trigger for these moves, however data on Friday that showed the U.S. economy did not produce as lots of jobs as expected in July has actually been a significant catalyst. An increase in Japanese rates of interest on July 31 has made bets on a cheap yen - a number of which financed purchases of possessions with much better returns...

Glencore on Tuesday left its 2024 production assistance unchanged for most metals and lifted coal to show the acquisition of Teck's steelmaking coal system, saying it will announce whether it will separate its coal possessions at its halfyear financial outcomes next week. The miner and trader this month finished a deal to buy the bulk of Teck's coal organization. We are now in the process of consulting with investors to examine their views concerning the potential demerger of our coal and carbon steel products organization, CEO Gary Nagle stated in a release. We expect to be able to reveal the...

India's gold need in the June quarter fell 5% from a year ago, but intake in the second half of 2024 is set to enhance due to a correction in regional rate following a steep decrease in import taxes, the World Gold Council (WGC) stated on Tuesday. Higher purchases on the planet's second-biggest gold consumer could support worldwide benchmark rates, which are trading near record highs. The current 9 portion point reduction in import duty on gold, carried out before the primary festival season beginning in September, is anticipated to revive gold need, additional supported by excellent monsoon rains, said...