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...Jess Ralston, head of energy at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, said a CBAM could help reinstate some green investor confidence that was “shaken” by Sunak’s net zero U-turns in September....
...We’ll be there, so please drop me a line: amanda.chu@ft.com....
...Starmer also allocated money to the green plan from a previous promise to introduce a new, tougher levy on the North Sea oil industry....
...ExxonMobil, the biggest western oil producer, has made a sharp U-turn on monitoring its methane emissions. Carbon capture is just one part of the solution, says UN IPCC chair Jim Skea....
...The U-turn “completely undermines the powers of local government, which are very few and far in between”, Cammy Day, Edinburgh council leader, told the Financial Times....
...But Starmer pinned the blame for his U-turn on constrained public finances resulting from the Conservatives’ stewardship and insisted Labour would still deliver on its promise to build a green economy if...
...Two shareholders criticised the group’s chief executive Amanda Blanc, who joined Aviva in 2020 as its first female head....
...We welcome Wopke Hoekstra’s comments (“EU nominee for climate chief wants global fossil fuel taxes”, Report, FT.com, October 2) that he wants to explore an international maritime levy on ships’...
...The levy, which is applied to imports in particular sectors, is linked to the carbon price set by the EU and paid by its domestic producers....
...But while the utility of the project is evident, it’s unclear what specifically has changed to justify the World Bank’s U-turn....
...Amherst Group, a real estate investment company, has hired Evan Levy as a vice-chair and member of the executive committee. He was previously co-head of real estate at Weil....
...The risk isn’t going anywhere either — especially in light of recent conversations about a global levy on shipping emissions that could go towards climate finance....
...The 89-metre Here Comes The Sun is trailed by U-81, an 80.1-metre converted former oil and gas supply vessel....
...Though it is an open question whether US steel exporters could still get an exemption from paying the levies in the final days of talks....
...And on that same theme, Amanda reports that US power executives see the current renewables supply chain problems persisting at least until next year....
...“I don’t know what kind of magic people expect one can do to recover when you have persistent shocks,” Ndung’u said....
...He would have been the first person in that post to raise the levy since Labour’s Denis Healey in 1974....
...In a major U-turn in December 2020, the government scrapped the plan....
...Liz Truss said on Friday that she will revert to an increase in the corporate levy to 25 per cent, as announced by Rishi Sunak and the previous government and added that public spending will increase “less...
...UK prime minister Rishi Sunak is examining a U-turn on another of his predecessor’s energy policies by scrapping a revenue cap on low-carbon electricity generators in favour of a more straightforward windfall...
...The Head of the NHS Amanda Pritchard today says that this investment shows the government continues to back the NHS....
...(Amanda Chu) Power Points Africa’s lack of refining capacity is exacerbating fuel shortages on the continent....
...The surprise U-turn on onshore wind — which has been the subject of fierce dispute in the Tory party for the past decade — was described by climate campaigners as one of the few bright spots in chancellor...
...“Because various different announcements and U-turns have taken place, people may not have noticed the biggest tax rises of all, which is to income tax,” he added....
...Most recently, Biden urged Congress to pass a so-called gas tax holiday that would suspend a federal levy of 18.4 cents a gallon during the busy summer driving season....
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