Hints and tips:
...I saw Billy Connolly six times in a row on one of his Australian tours, and it was the location of the first of about 30 Elvis Costello concerts that I’ve since attended....
...The film is at times wickedly funny and I think it’s my favourite comedy of 2022: you can read Leslie Felperin’s review here....
Proposal for new governance team fails to assuage environmentalists’ greenwashing concerns
...Always a sturdy worker, Cumberbatch lost 20lbs in weight for when Wynne languishes in prison and emotes like billy-o in scenes where the audience has to see the hidden fear or pain beneath the mask of good-chap...
...The list of climate laggards is led mainly by state-backed publicly listed companies based in India and China, writes our colleague Leslie Hook....
...Please read Leslie Hook and Billy Nauman’s story here....
Can electric cars and carbon capture outweigh cryptocurrency and rocket emissions?
...(Patrick Temple-West and Billy Nauman) Who cares about climate change?...
...(Billy Nauman) Is AI green?...
...(Billy Nauman) New global trade deal targets climate improvements Uh oh....
...But as Anjli Raval and Leslie Hook reveal, the company “has been hit by the departure of several clean energy executives amid a split over how far and fast the oil giant should shift towards greener fuels...
...Please read Leslie Hook’s article about the report here....
...(Billy Nauman) Chart of the day Investors are craving sustainable food businesses....
...Please read Leslie Hook’s analysis of the climate crisis here....
...And, in A True Born Englishman (never previously publicly performed), we encounter Leslie Bray, a footman to the royal family giving a magazine interview....
TCI fund chief tells Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered to phase out loans for fossil-fuel projects
...(Billy Nauman) Stock exchanges scramble for sustainable bonds Competition for green bond business is heating up at global stock exchanges....
...(Leslie Hook) TED’s climate countdown calls on chiefs to do more than talk There has been little co-ordination so far between the individual activists drawing attention to the climate crisis and the investors...
...(Billy Nauman) Chart of the week Green bond issuance is lower than analysts had forecast for the start of 2020, “reflecting a slowdown in the whole bond market and a focus on short-term liquidity, due...
...(Gillian Tett and Billy Nauman) Green QE? French central banker says ‘non!’...
...Reporters Leslie Hook and Andrew Jack will be at the UN today, where the big speakers are Greta Thunberg at 10:15, Mark Carney at 12:30 and Boris Johnson at 5:45. See the full agenda here....
...Read more here from Leslie Hook and Camilla Hodgson....
...As he sketched out this “not illusory” path, Mr Weld, 74, was sipping black coffee in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan, where his entourage consisted of his wife, Leslie Marshall, who also doubles...
...Billy Nauman in New York Almost 70 countries to pledge tougher climate goals Ahead of the speeches from heads of state at the UN climate summit later today, Chile — which is hosting the climate talks in...
...FT reporters Leslie Hook and Emiko Terazono discuss Indigo’s business model and its prospects for dealing with global warming....
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