'This is a natural gas market crisis': Why energy markets could be set for three more years of turmoil

Cecilia Keating
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The global economy could face many more years of energy market turbulence if governments do not take steps to turbocharge their clean energy and technology investments, the IEA has warned

As gas prices have skyrocketed, European governments have been inundated with advice about how they can protect businesses and households from a pernicious cost-of-living crisis being driven in large part...

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