内容摘要：When asked for a formal comment about the findings of Al Jazeera’s investigation, Mathias denied that he designed mechanisms to launder money and said that he had not laundered money or traded illegal gold for Russian clients or anyone else. He told us he had never had any working relationship with Macmillan.

When asked for a formal comment about the findings of Al Jazeera’s investigation, Mathias denied that he designed mechanisms to launder money and said that he had not laundered money or traded illegal gold for Russian clients or anyone else. He told us he had never had any working relationship with Macmillan.

The proportion of furniture in US homes that is domestically produced has been steadily declining, with most furniture now being imported.About one-third of furniture sold in the US is domestically produced, while the remaining two-thirds are imported. The largest exporters of furniture to the US include China, Vietnam, Mexico and Italy.

Almost all televisions sold in the US are produced outside of the country, with a very small portion (about 1 percent) assembled domestically. The vast majority of TVs are manufactured overseas, primarily in China, South Korea and Vietnam.A significant number of TVs sold in the US are assembled in Mexico, where several leading TV brands have assembly plants.Less than 1 percent of phones sold in the US are manufactured domestically.

Manufacturing mobile phones requires a highly specialised workforce and extensive infrastructure, including advanced supply chains for components like screens, processors and batteries.The production process is highly globalised, with parts sourced from different countries.

The US market for light bulbs is heavily reliant on imports, particularly from China. According to IBISWorld, a market research firm, the number of lighting and bulb manufacturing businesses in the US has declined by 1.5 percent per year on average over the five years between 2019 and 2024.

According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), nearly 90 percent of homes use air-conditioning.“This is an extraordinary case,” said Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen, reporting from Hamm, Germany. “For the first time, a person from the Global South is filing a legal case against a company from the Global North, holding it responsible, accountable for global warming and effects of it” on their home country.

Presenting data from the Carbon Majors database, which tracks historical emissions from chief fossil fuel producers, Lliuya said RWE, Germany’s largest energy company, is responsible for nearly 0.5 percent of global man-made emissions since the industrial revolution and must pay a proportional share of the costs needed to adapt to climate change.For a $3.5m flood defence project needed in his region, RWE’s share would be about $17,500, according to Lliuya’s calculations.

The Peruvian farmer, whose family grows corn, wheat, barley and potatoes, has said he decided to sue RWE because it is one of Europe’s biggest polluters – rather than any particular company projects near his home.RWE, which is phasing out its coal-fired power plants, has said a single emitter of carbon dioxide cannot be held responsible for climate change. It also said the attempt to create a legal precedent had failed.