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Sustainable investors confront political uncertainty

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 Hello from New York, where we begin with troubling news for sustainability-focused investors. For…
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26 January 2024 0

Urbanisation’s role in the climate crisis is being overlooked

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a professor at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford Most of the global systems that support life on Earth — from the climate to freshwater and…
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25 January 2024 0

Power giant NextEra plays down Republican threat to US climate law

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The biggest US renewable energy developer has expressed confidence that Republicans would not follow through on threats to rip up the Inflation Reduction Act if they win this year’s election, as the company reported record…
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25 January 2024 0

Brussels struggles to placate farmers as far right stokes protests

EU farmers egged on by the far right have taken to spreading muck outside government buildings, barricading roads and creating widespread havoc as Brussels fights to keep the agriculture sector on board with its green transition. In an effort to placate farmers and neutralise a campaign issue ahead of June’s European parliament elections, Ursula von…
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25 January 2024 0

Denmark leads the way in incentivising low-meat diets

Scientists are increasingly clear: if the world wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it needs to eat less meat. But the message has not got through. Politicians — who, in several countries, have set targets for phasing out petrol cars and gas boilers — have been reluctant to do anything similar for what we eat.…
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25 January 2024 0

Too hot, too dry, too wet: climate change hits Italy’s winemakers hard

Pucci Giuffrida’s Al-Cantàra winery stands on the cool slopes of Sicily’s Mount Etna, where he cultivate grapes on 15 hectares of rich volcanic soil to produce about 100,000 bottles of wine each year. Mount Etna normally provides an ideal microclimate for viticulture, with lower temperatures and better air circulation than the scorching Sicilian plains below.…
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25 January 2024 0

Climate change was big driver of historic Amazonian drought, study finds

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A historic drought that left swaths of the Amazon rainforest parched for much of last year was caused primarily by climate change, according to a new study, rather than naturally occurring weather patterns. The research…
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24 January 2024 0

UK cannot prove sustainability of biomass power plants, warns watchdog

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK government should review how it monitors the carbon footprint of biomass power plants because it “cannot show that its current arrangements are good enough”, according to parliament’s spending watchdog.   The National Audit…
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24 January 2024 0

Nuclear power generation to reach record high next year, IEA forecasts

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Global nuclear power generation is set to reach an all-time high next year, according to the latest forecasts from the International Energy Agency, marking a resurgence for the technology and boost for efforts to cut…
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24 January 2024 0

Carbon credits from cookstove emissions largely worthless, study finds

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A type of carbon credit used by companies including Eon, Shell, easyJet and British Airways in the past year to justify continuing to pollute through their own operations is largely worthless, a new study finds.…
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23 January 2024 0