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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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 Welcome back. Yesterday Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company, announced it was scrapping…
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The EU is shifting its spending priorities from greening the economy to investing in defence, as the bloc faces backlash over climate regulation and grapples with Russia’s war in Ukraine. Faced with tightening national budgets, member states have reduced a common fund designed to spur innovation in the bloc from €10bn to €1.5bn — and…
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The nuclear power industry is receiving a lot of attention recently thanks in part to new technological advancements. That’s excited venture capital groups and private investors, such as Bill Gates and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. But the industry is also known for its boom-and-bust cycles. The FT’s US energy editor Jamie Smyth explains there are many…
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nate Berner and Paul Augustine are managing partners of Bering Advisors One of the most eye-catching outcomes of last month’s COP 28 was the UAE’s announcement of Altérra, a $30bn commitment to fund various climate-related…
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Climate campaigners rejoiced last week when US President Joe Biden froze approvals for new liquefied natural gas terminals that export the fuel. But the White House hopes the “pause” in LNG permits will win it political kudos with a much bigger group: US consumers worried about the price of heating and electricity. “We will take…
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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 Miami. I’m here at the iConnections Global Alts conference to moderate a…
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. This article is an on-site version of our Europe Express newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday and Saturday morning Good morning. An explosive scoop to start:…
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