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Pollution
Climate graphic of the week: World’s worst hotspot for oil pollution by ships
...Oil tankers may also wash cargo tanks between loads, or fill empty ones for ballast, producing oily water that needs disposal....
March 23, 2024
Climate change
Heatwave-linked deaths in Europe reported up 30% over past 20 years
...Evidence is emerging of the opposing La Niña system beginning to take effect, with cooler waters near Ecuador....
April 22, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Climate change
Asian region reels from heat and floods as WMO warns of climate change effects
...Asia was the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards last year, the WMO said....
April 23, 2024
Climate change
Global water cycles are ‘spinning out of balance’, weather agency reports
...The world will experience an “increasingly erratic” water cycle as climate change drives new patterns of both extreme flooding and drought across the globe, the World Meteorological Organization has forecast...
October 12, 2023
Trade Secrets
A weak WTO will damage the planet more than it hurts free trade Premium content
...Charted waters is on Brexit still being a bad idea....
March 4, 2024
Agricultural commodities
Humanity loves a cup of tea. So where’s the futures market?
...The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has even held summits and put out reports on the possibility of futures markets in Indian and Chinese tea....
March 1, 2024
FT Live
Climate Capital Live
The leading global platform for climate science, finance and business
Wednesday, 19 March 2025London, UK & Online
Trade Secrets
The case for the WTO. (No, really.) Premium content
...This may be an improbable thought for my regular readers, but people sometimes tell me I’ve got a downer on the World Trade Organization. A WTO grouch, they call me....
February 26, 2024
Trade Secrets
Peering through the gloom at the WTO meeting ahead Premium content
...Charted waters is on EU agriculture and climate change. Modest ambitions make sense It’s an interesting time to be gathering the world’s trade ministers in the Middle East....
February 12, 2024
Special ReportFuture of Water
‘New climate reality’ stretches global freshwater supply
...About half of the world’s population already experiences severe water scarcity for at least some part of the year, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)....
March 22, 2024
Day eight of Israel conflict as it happened: Israel planning ‘significant ground operations’ in Gaza
WHO warns of ‘deadly’ disease as Gaza runs out of clean water
...Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, said the lack of access to clean water could cause diseases that can be “deadly among fragile populations” with limited access to healthcare...
October 14, 2023
Shipping
India’s navy frees ship hijacked by Somali pirates
...The head of the UN’s International Maritime Organization last month told the Financial Times that shipping companies needed to bolster security when transiting waters off Somalia to prevent a return of widescale...
March 17, 2024
Disrupted Times
Policymakers gather in Washington as Middle East tensions swell
...The updated figures mean that the 16 water monopolies have paid out a total of £78bn in dividends in the 32 years between privatisation in 1991 to March 2023....
April 15, 2024
Shipping
Russia’s ‘dark fleet’ rejects navigators for perilous Danish straits
...The International Maritime Organization, a specialised UN body that regulates shipping globally, said all vessels “should comply with well-established standards and best practices” including using pilotage...
March 22, 2024
News in-depthEnvironment
Welsh mines leak at least 500 tonnes of harmful metals each year
...There is no level of lead exposure known to be without harmful effects, according to the World Health Organization....
March 11, 2024
Disrupted Times
Policymakers convinced holy grail of ‘immaculate disinflation’ within reach
...Read more in our special report: The Future of Water....
March 22, 2024
FT Live
Moral Money Summit Europe
Unlocking opportunities for a greener and fairer world
Wednesday, 22 MayThe Biltmore Mayfair, LXR Hotels & Resorts, Grosvenor Square, London, UK
Disrupted Times
Trade tensions dog WTO as ministers meet in Abu Dhabi
...Academics suggest AI demand will drive up water withdrawal — where water is removed from ground or surface sources — to up to 6bn cubic meters by 2027, or about half the amount consumed by the UK each year...
February 26, 2024
International Maritime Organisation
Pirates targeting ships diverted from Red Sea, warns UN shipping chief
...This has sent vessels into waters in the Indian Ocean and off West Africa that generally attract less traffic....
February 22, 2024
Environment
MPs launch probe into health risks from abandoned Welsh mines
...Lead is particularly dangerous to humans and there is no level of exposure known to be without harmful effects, according to the World Health Organization....
March 12, 2024
Trade Secrets
Why AI and data might not belong in trade deals Premium content
...Charted waters is on the Bank of Japan and the weak yen....
November 6, 2023
Israel-Hamas war
Israel to allow more Gaza aid to be monitored at second checkpoint
...The immense destruction caused by the fighting in Gaza has driven most of the strip’s 2.3mn people out of their homes in just two months, and left residents desperately short of water, food and shelter....
December 11, 2023
ObituaryPeter Higgs
Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, 1929-2024
...“We need it like fish need water,” Close said of the extraordinary concept that Higgs envisioned. “Without it, nothing we know would exist.”...
April 13, 2024
Climate change
Atmospheric rivers set to hit US west coast
...The El Niño phenomenon is expected to last until at least April, the World Meteorological Organization has said....
January 26, 2024
Brazil
Brazil rolls out dengue vaccines as cases rise sharply
...The disease is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which thrives in pools of stagnant water....
February 25, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
Hospitals in north Gaza stop functioning as humanitarian crisis deepens
...It added that 8,000 displaced people were sheltering at the hospital, but there was no food or fresh water....
November 14, 2023
The Week Ahead
US to host landmark trilateral meeting
...Interesting fact: it’s the only marathon that is run entirely on water since there is no solid land at the North Pole. Whether you’re running a marathon or not, I’ll be back next week....
April 7, 2024

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