The US has vowed to cut its carbon emissions in half by the end of this decade, as President Joe Biden promised the new targets would help create jobs and maintain American competitiveness. Canada, Japan and South Korea also made new climate commitments at Biden’s two-day virtual environmental summit, which involved 40 world leaders including…
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When John Kerry, US president Joe Biden’s climate envoy, returned from a whirlwind tour to Asia and Europe last weekend, he had some nuggets of good(ish) news. One was that the Chinese issued a joint statement with America about the seriousness of the climate crisis — paving the way for President Xi Jinping’s participation in…
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You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player If you had come up with a catchy statement that summed up this topic, what would it be? Zero emissions aviation. It’s not pie in the sky, but it’s definitely going to be a long haul journey. Aviation is one of the hardest sectors to decarbonise.…
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FT premium subscribers can click here to receive Trade Secrets by email. Hello from Brussels, where things are relatively quiet on the trade policy front this week, there is no major vaccines crisis and member states are mainly getting on with actually vaccinating their populations rather than picking public fights about it. We’re sure that…
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US President Joe Biden will announce the country’s steepest ever emissions cuts, as he hosts 40 world leaders on Thursday for a summit on climate change that will include China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Biden will pledge to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52 per cent by 2030 relative to 2005 levels,…
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One thing to start: Happy Earth Day, everyone. What began decades ago as a day to honour the planet and demand its protection was also, in 2016, the day the Paris climate agreement was signed. But Earth Day is struggling to sustain its identity under the deluge of corporate greenwashing and platitudes that now surround…
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