Top Stories of the Week: August 30 - September 3

                                    A roundup of this week's top stories:

• WindEurope launches educational hub to plug skills gap

  WindEurope is hoping to inspire the next generation to chose careers in the field of wind energy by launching a new platform designed to plug the skills gap and help major players meet the increasing demand for jobs within the renewable...

• German Economy Ministry releases arms industry sales data

  Germany's Economy Ministry has released data revealing the country's arms industry had committed to sales of €22.5 billion since October 2017, when the current legislative period began...

• Shell to push for 50,000 EV charging stations by 2025

  Royal Dutch Shell has laid out plans to fit 50,000 new electric vehicle charging stations across the UK by 2025 as it seeks to operate around one-third of the market by the mid-decade...

• BHP partners with Caterpillar for zero-emission mining trucks

  Mining company BHP has partnered with mining equipment provider Caterpillar to develop and deploy a fleet of zero-emissions trucks as the mining giant looks to shift further away from fossil fuels...

• Weather-related disasters have spiked over the last 50 years

  The number of weather-related disasters, such as floods, droughts and heatwaves has increased by almost five times over the past 50 years, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Society (WMO)...

• WhatsApp fined €225 million for breaching EU data laws

  WhatsApp has been fined €225 million by an Irish watchdog for supposedly breaching the EU's data privacy laws - the second-largest GDPR fine of its kind...

• BMW to increase emission reduction goals

  BMW has increased its initial carbon emissions reductions goals to 40% over a car's lifecycle as well as value chain emissions decreases of 50% based on 2019 levels by 2030...