Category: Clean energy investing

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Carbon offsets: giving sustainable forestry a green light

Receive free Carbon offset updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Carbon offset news every morning. Land is a scarce resource. It is needed to produce food and lumber, provide natural habitats, capture CO₂ and even grow biofuels. Farms and villages are also intimately woven with the character of…
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29 September 2023 0

France pushes ‘new vision’ for development finance 

This article is an on-site version of our Moral Money newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox. Visit our Moral Money hub for all the latest ESG news, opinion and analysis from around the FT Despite unveiling rather lukewarm climate policies at home this week, France’s president Emmanuel Macron…
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29 September 2023 0

The push to mine Earth’s final frontier

Receive free The FT View updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest The FT View news every morning. In an extraordinary feat of engineering, a capsule carrying samples from an asteroid landed safely back on Earth last Sunday. While the 250g scoop will be assessed mainly to provide insights…
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29 September 2023 0

Biden administration plans record-low number of offshore drilling leases

Receive free Oil & Gas industry updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Oil & Gas industry news every morning. The Biden administration on Friday unveiled plans to hold a record low number of offshore lease sales over the next five years, in a blow to the oil and…
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29 September 2023 0

John Kerry: Energy transition is the ‘new industrial revolution’

Just over a year ago, the launch of President Joe Biden’s $369bn Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) pushed the US into a new era of climate and energy policy. As country negotiators try to hammer out preliminary agreements ahead of the UN COP28 climate summit in November, US climate envoy John Kerry has been keen to…
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29 September 2023 0

UK rural land risks being forested over in corporate ‘greenwashing’

Receive free UK agriculture updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK agriculture news every morning. Agricultural land in England is at risk of being forested over by big conglomerates under the guise of combating climate change, the UK’s farming minister has warned. Mark Spencer told the Financial Times…
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29 September 2023 0

How Ajay Banga can ‘stretch’ the World Bank’s balance sheet

Receive free World Bank updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest World Bank news every morning. When the UN held its general assembly last week, the attention of the media — and the protesters — was mostly focused on the politicians. But in its shadow, another event was taking…
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28 September 2023 0

Big insurers cover dirty coal mining projects despite climate pledges

Receive free Coal updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Coal news every morning. Major insurance groups have provided policies that cover thermal coal mining projects in the US as part of diversified mining groups, despite pledges under their own climate policies to shun the most polluting projects. Insurance…
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28 September 2023 0

Non-European companies need not fear the EU’s new carbon border tax

Receive free Climate change updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Climate change news every morning. The author is EU commissioner for the economy Another summer of catastrophic fires and floods has provided further grim evidence of the worsening climate collapse our world is facing. Policymakers around the globe…
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28 September 2023 0

Business braced for red tape from EU carbon border tax

Receive free Carbon tax updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Carbon tax news every morning. Businesses are bracing themselves for the impact of the world’s first carbon border tax, which will impose red tape that will cost millions for those importing into the EU as protectionist trade measures…
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28 September 2023 0