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Good morning and welcome to Europe Express. Our sympathy goes to England fans after the nail-biter in Wembley last night, but also, tanti auguri to those celebrating Italy’s win. Italy’s magic also proved itself over the weekend on the taxation front: not only have the G20 economy ministers endorsed a global tax deal at their…
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Greenhouse gas emissions from global listed companies will blow past the global warming targets set by the Paris climate accord in just six years, despite the plethora of net zero corporate pledges, according to a new tracker by index provider MSCI covering more than 9,000 companies. The MSCI analysis identifies some of the worst-performers, in…
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European aluminium producers are calling for exclusion from the first phase of the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism, claiming the plan will put the industry at a competitive disadvantage to foreign rivals and do little to tackle climate change. European Aluminium, which represents smelters and manufacturers, said the tax proposal would harm its members and…
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G20 finance ministers have collectively endorsed carbon pricing for the first time, describing the once contentious idea as one of “a wide set of tools” to tackle climate change. The issue of taxing carbon dioxide emissions has long divided G20 members, with the US in particular historically opposed. “Tackling climate change and biodiversity loss and…
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Brussels will set out plans this week to increase taxes on polluting fuels and introduce an EU-wide levy on aviation kerosene for the first time, under measures intended to put it at the forefront of global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The European Commission will propose a revamp of its 15-year-old rule book on carbon…
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The writer is a political economist at the University of Duisburg-Essen The holy grail of sustainable finance is figuring out how to distinguish sustainable from unsustainable investments. Get this right, and the public and private sectors have a guide to their decision-making. Get it wrong, and everything downstream becomes haphazard. The EU’s new sustainable finance…
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Doris Vollmer is clearly new to politics. She fumbles her power points, and blanks on a fellow candidate’s name. But the German physicist also captures her audience’s attention as she pokes a glass of water balanced on the podium. Imagine, she says, this is rising global temperatures. “It’s going up! It’s rising,” she shouts. Water splashes…
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Carbon counter is a series of Lex articles estimating the climate cost of various actions. The other articles are here After years of work and billions of dollars, Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are preparing to climb into their own spacecrafts and take a trip to the edge of space to prove that space…
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Global temperatures set new records during the month of June, which was the warmest June on record in North America and the fourth warmest for the world overall. The unusual heat was revealed in satellite data from Copernicus Climate Change Service, part of an EU-wide programme, showing particularly extreme temperatures in the Russian Arctic, across…
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