Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Scientists and health services are monitoring the upcoming European summer months for signs of another season of extreme heat, after finding that deaths linked to hot weather on the continent have risen 30 per cent…
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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. Ireland faces the risk of serious potato shortages as heavy rains delay planting of its biggest vegetable crop and Brexit continues to complicate the supply of seeds. The Celtic nation, whose 94kg per head of…
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Advisers to former US climate envoy John Kerry’s heavily lobbied the world’s top corporate climate targets oversight group to reverse its opposition to the use of controversial carbon credits, according to sources familiar with the process. Officials involved in shaping a US clean-energy scheme to channel funds to developing countries made repeated requests to the…
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Move comes as White House tries to mobilise progressive voters ahead of November election
More than two decades ago, Miljan Gutovic, pursuing an engineering PhD at Sydney’s University of Technology, set out to explore how waste clay materials could be used to lessen cement’s climate impact. The challenge that the Sarajevo-born Australian will face from May as the chief executive of Swiss cement giant Holcim will be much the…
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Eurozone economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The future of sweeping EU legislation to punish companies for environmental and human rights abuses in their supply chains has been cast into doubt after German government ministers pledged to oppose it. Germany’s Free Democrats…
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A year ago Chevron was flying high. Chief executive Mike Wirth lauded “an outstanding year” as the second most valuable US oil company reported its best-ever annual profit haul of $36bn, allowing it to shower enormous returns on shareholders. But 12 months on, there are growing signs that Chevron — which reports its 2023 full-year…
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You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player Taiwan wants to be a frontrunner in offshore wind power, making the most of its high wind speeds. Clean energy is vital to the country’s world-leading semiconductor industry, but developing new energy from scratch isn’t easy. And in Taiwan geopolitical risks also loom. Taiwan Strait has…
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Joe Biden has appointed his clean energy adviser John Podesta as the US’s top climate diplomat, moving swiftly to fill the vacancy despite a looming presidential election. The appointment comes at a critical time for…
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Financial Times’ Climate Capital Live conference in London provides an annual forum for climate leaders, politicians, chief executives and financiers to share insights on how organisations can move from commitments to implementation. Two days…
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