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US pushed behind scenes for approval of corporate carbon offset plan

...Topping is a shareholder of Xpansiv, which runs a global carbon trading exchange, and a director of ICE Benchmark Administration, which provides index services and is affiliated with New York-based Intercontinental...

April 21, 2024

Climate change

Climate targets group under fire over Bezos-backed carbon offsets decision

...The Bezos fund has been a major supporter of a push to scale up voluntary carbon markets....

April 11, 2024

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UK universities

Cambridge university halts donations from fossil fuel groups

...BP did not respond to a request for comment....

March 18, 2024

Climate change

Cambridge-led coalition of universities threatens banks over fossil fuel financing

...Lara Cuvelier, a sustainable investment campaigner with Reclaim Finance, said the universities’ initiative showed a “real understanding of climate issues”....

February 15, 2024

Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies

Demand for renewables powers growth at Brazilian ethanol giant Raízen

...When the world’s top diplomats arrived in Brazil for G20 meetings earlier this year, they were greeted by a fleet of cars carrying a message of national pride: “Powered by Brazilian ethanol.”...

April 26, 2024

Renewable energy

G7 to target sixfold expansion of electricity storage

...a draft document seen by the Financial Times....

April 26, 2024

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Climate change

G7 countries agree to end use of coal power by 2035, says UK minister

...group a timeline for meeting the deal struck at last year’s UN climate summit in Dubai....

April 29, 2024

Climate change

Climate targets oversight group backtracks after staff revolt

...“The SBTi is a learning organisation, as it is moving from an initiative to a voluntary standard-setter,” it said in a statement to the Financial Times, adding there had been a “misunderstanding” of its...

April 13, 2024

Climate change

Relentless stretch of heat records in March unnerves climate scientists

...“Myself and other climate scientists are asking whether this year is a blip, a phase change, whether the climate system is broken and behaving in a different way to what we expect,” said Samantha Burgess...

April 9, 2024

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Transcript — Culture chat: Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter

...And in Beyoncé’s case, I feel that — Act I: Renaissance, 2022, Act II: Cowboy Carter, 2024 — these feel like a sort of pop music version of a great American novel of someone who’s just like some huge, great...

April 5, 2024

The Big Read

The pensioners and babies behind a new era of climate lawsuits

...“Should it be down to a judge to stand in for the law on the basis of worthy [climate] goals, and convict a company or a state, even when the country’s parliamentary majority has not done so?”...

April 12, 2024

Climate change

Exxon leads industry fight against UN plans to limit plastic

...She added that a curb on production was not a “good choice” given the lack of alternatives....

April 22, 2024

Climate change

Companies take step back from making climate target promises

...Since then, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a standard-setting body backed by a coalition of non-profit organisations, has provided a check on those targets, to determine whether they are in...

March 15, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

UK to regulate ESG evaluation of corporate performance

...At the launch of a public consultation last year, it cited projections that $33.9tn of global assets under management would consider ESG factors by 2026....

March 6, 2024

Climate change

Lack of controls on climate engineering risks lasting damage, UN says

...Nations failed to back a proposal by Switzerland and Monaco for a scientific research group to examine technology to block the sun’s rays, at a UN assembly in Nairobi last week....

March 6, 2024

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Air France-KLM

Dutch court rules KLM ads ‘misleading’ in greenwashing case

...and a network of authorities last year....

March 20, 2024

Climate change

Warmer, wetter, hotter, drier — February caps unending stretch of record temperatures

...2C and ideally to 1.5C over a longer period of more than a decade....

March 7, 2024

News in-depthSolar power

Global glut turns solar panels into garden fencing option

...Without more EU support, a factory that Barin aims to open near Venice will be a small “megawatt” producer rather than a globally significant “gigawatt” one, he said....

April 1, 2024

Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil police eye criminal charges against ex-president Bolsonaro

...He also faces a police probe into accusations that he conspired with military officers to plan a coup following his election defeat in October 2022, an alleged plan that fizzled out....

March 19, 2024

Elon Musk

Brazil threatens to regulate social media after clash with Elon Musk

...“We have reached a limit. It is a response in defence of Brazil,” he said....

April 7, 2024

Brazilian economy

Blackouts spark fears of grid ‘collapse’ in Brazil’s biggest city

...“It’s a multiple failure....

April 7, 2024

Shell PLC

Shell appeal against landmark climate ruling kicks off in Dutch court

...ExxonMobil is suing Follow This, a small Amsterdam-based investor activist group, and Arjuna Capital, a registered investment adviser, over a shareholder proposal calling on the oil and gas group to cut...

April 2, 2024

Climate change

Global tree-planting push threatens African grasslands, warns report

...The Bezos Earth Fund, a financial backer of AFR100, did not immediately respond to a request for comment....

February 15, 2024

ReviewAlbums

Beyoncé rides into town with the revisionist Western epic Cowboy Carter — album review

...Cowboy Carter leads a move into country by other mainstream stars such as Lana Del Rey....

March 29, 2024

News in-depthFinancial & markets regulation

Bar is rising for companies’ disclosure of climate risk information

...few hours a day by big energy companies....

March 13, 2024

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