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But indigenous sovereignty and environmental are still significant factors - Canada has pledged to halving its greenhouse emissions by 2035.

Last winter, Russian bombing had already halved national gas production, according to the government.

The moves have proved costly, with heavy spending causing the company’s profit to halve in the second quarter.

Washington halved a blanket tariff on Chinese goods to 10 percent, while Beijing loosened restrictions on exports of rare earth technologies -- a sector it dominates.

A rise in corporate takeovers, and a decline in IPOs, have roughly halved the number of publicly traded U.S. companies since 1997, according to the Center for Research in Security Prices.