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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The EU must invest about €1.5tn a year between 2031 and 2050 to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent by 2040 and meet its mid-century net zero target, Brussels has said. The figures…
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“There’s more known about space travel than there is about soil health,” says Tom Gregory, gulping down a cup of tea and glancing out from his farmhouse kitchen at a valley of green fields. Ten years ago, he and his wife Sophie set up their organic dairy farm in Chard, Somerset. Five years ago, they…
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