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Energy Efficiency 2025 Buildings
How and where is energy used? Total final consumption in 2024 was over 450 EJ and has grown by around 25 EJ since 2019. Buildings account for around 30% of global energy demand and have contributed around 20% of the growth in total demand since 2019. The residential sector makes up about 70% of total energy demand in buildings, while the remaining 30% is used in commercial and public buildings.In advanced economies, most energy in homes is used for space and water heating, together accounting for about 70%. This is followed by the use of electrical appliances, such as refrigerators, televisions…
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Renewables for Industry Executive summary
Electrification of heat can improve efficiency, help diversify industrial energy, and enhance energy security A broad range of industries that depend primarily on low-temperature heat and steam processes represent roughly 70% of global industrial energy consumption. They span diverse manufacturing activities – from food and beverages to textiles, chemicals, transport equipment, wood products and paper. In 2023, these sectors emitted nearly 3 Gt of direct energy-related CO₂, accounting for half of all direct industrial emissions, although emissions have declined by around 8% since 2013.Industrial energy use is largely in the form of heat and is increasingly being supplied…
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Salomé Zourabichvili
President. Salomé Zourabichvili took office as President of Georgia in December 2018. Ms Zourabichvili served as Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2004-2005 and was elected to its parliament in 2016. She also previously worked in the French diplomatic service and for the UN Security Council, as well as teaching at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.
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RePowerEU Plan
The REPowerEU Plan was elaborated by the European Commission at EU leaders' request, in response to the energy market disruption and supply disruptions brought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Plan notably aims at rapidly reducing the EU's dependence on Russian fossil fuels by accelerating Member States clean energy transition. It outlines a series of measures to save energy, diversify supplies, accelerate the rollout of renewables, reduce fossil fuel consumption in industry and transport, and induce "smart investments". It also includes policy options to limit electricity and gas price surges, and regulate gas storage filling. It states that…
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Anti-dumping investigation on hot rolled flat steel products
In October 2023, the Turkish authorities initiated an anti- dumping investigation on hot rolled flat steel product imports originating from China, India, Japan and Russia.
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Affirmative Determinations in the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations of Ferrosilicon imports
In June 24, the U.S. authorities determined preliminary dumping rates and subsidy rates in the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations conducted on ferrosilicon imports originating from Russia.
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Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations of Ferrosilicon imports
In April 2024, the US authorities initiated investigations of imports of ferrosilicon originating from Brazil, Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Russia.
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[UNDER NEGOTIATIONS] Indonesia-Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) Free Trade Agreements
On July 31 2023, the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia announced a limited free trade agreement (FTA) with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) consisting of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Belarus.The first round of negotiations on concluding a free trade agreement took place on April 3-5, 2023 in Jakarta.The second and the third rounds of negotiations were held on August and December, 2023 in Moscow (Russian Federation) and Denpasar (Republic of Indonesia) respectively. In 2022, Indonesian exports to the EAEU were dominated by palm oil. Meanwhile, Indonesia's main import commodities from the EAEU…
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State credit facility supporting companies experiencing liquidity issues
In May 2022, the Spanish government set up a EUR 10 billion credit facility for companies and independent workers impacted by the global energy crisis aggravated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The facility provides loans supporting business liquidity.
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Support to airline companies
In order to support the drop in activity due to the Covid-19 crisis, the government of Russia had allocated RUB 23.4 billion to help airline companies in 2020. Conditions are attached to these subsidies: no more than 60% can be used for aviation personnel, 30% for lease payments and 10% for aircraft parking. The program was retroactively extended to cover not only February-July, but also partial compensation for August to November 2020. The rate for calculating subsidies for each passenger who did not fly due to COVID-19 restrictions was also increased in this extension, and a…