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InterviewClimate Capital
US environment agency chief defends push for greater oil supply
...The EPA provided environmental assistance during the 1990s to many of the former Soviet states in eastern Europe....
March 29, 2022
Ghassan Salamé
The two-state solution is stymied by lack of willpower not knowledge
...The writer is a professor of International Relations emeritus at Sciences-Po (Paris) and a former senior adviser to the United Nations secretary-general Before October 7, the world saw Israel as a start-up...
November 28, 2023
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
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Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
UK politics
First UK coal mine in 30 years receives government go-ahead
...Michael Gove, the levelling-up secretary, granted approval for the mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, on Wednesday evening in a controversial decision that has been delayed several times....
December 7, 2022
The Week Ahead
Biden rolls out infrastructure plan and Fed publishes stress test results
...’s achievements Tuesday China: Premier Li Qiang due to address the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum’s 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin UK: former health secretary Matt Hancock...
June 25, 2023
Inside Politics
Sunak and Starmer are scarred from their defeats by populists
...Leslie Felperin’s review is here....
January 12, 2023
UK economy
Kwarteng blocks £1.2bn subsea cable project backed by Tory donors
...Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has rejected a controversial £1.2bn undersea cable project backed by two tycoons born in the former Soviet Union, who have given £1.5m to Britain’s ruling Conservative party...
January 20, 2022
FT Live
Climate Capital Live
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Wednesday, 19 March 2025London, UK & Online
Inside Politics
Real terms benefits cuts would save very little, but cost dearly
...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....
September 29, 2022
Moral Money
ECB’s new green shift: a ‘distraction’ or just ‘peanuts’? Premium content
...A recent salvo came from former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers....
July 6, 2022
COP26
UN warns climate goals are off track and emissions rise could lead to 2.7C warming
...“We are nowhere near where science says we should be,” said Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the UN’s climate change arm....
October 25, 2021
Climate change
US envoy Kerry rejects calls for new delay to COP26 climate conference
...“This needs to be an in-person event and it needs to take place now,” the former US secretary of state said. “We don’t have the luxury of a lot of time . . ....
September 14, 2021
COP26
US and China climate commitments raise hopes ahead of COP26 summit
...“It’s a very significant step forward,” said Peter Betts, former lead climate negotiator for the EU and UK, referring to the US finance announcement....
September 23, 2021
Moral Money
From ‘Britain’s Obama’ to JPMorgan banker Premium content
...During Leslie Hook’s exclusive interview with US climate envoy John Kerry, the former secretary of state was asked to comment on BlackRock’s recent statement on climate-related shareholder resolutions....
May 13, 2022
Transcript
The world’s biggest direct carbon capture plant
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Marc FilippinoUS Treasury secretary Janet Yellen is urging Congress to raise the government’s borrowing limit....
September 9, 2021
Climate change
China must cut emissions to avoid climate ‘chaos’, warns US envoy Kerry
...The former US secretary of state also called for a “wartime mobilisation” of resources to fight the climate crisis, saying it was “a massive opportunity to rebuild our economies in the aftermath of a historic...
July 20, 2021
Moral Money
The mission to redefine UK corporate purpose Premium content
...In a recent book Ed Miliband, shadow climate change secretary and former leader of the opposition Labour party, called for a “fundamental rewriting” of UK company law to eliminate shareholder primacy....
April 13, 2022
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
FirstFT
FirstFT: Trump sues to block release of Capitol riot records
...He was America’s first black secretary of state and reached the pinnacle of the country’s military establishment. Read our obituary....
October 19, 2021
InterviewClimate Capital
John Kerry warns EU against carbon border tax
...The former secretary of state told the Financial Times he was “concerned” about Brussels’ forthcoming plans for a carbon border adjustment mechanism and urged the EU to wait until after the COP26 climate...
March 12, 2021
Climate change
New US climate strategy opens up old faultlines with Europe
...We didn’t know how we were going to get there when President Kennedy announced the goal, but we did it”, said the former secretary of state....
April 23, 2021
UK politics
UK lobbying regulator warns Tory co-chair over business activities
...It transpired in August that Elliot did not disclose that Amersi was his private client when he intervened in a dispute between the donor and Charlotte Leslie, a former Tory MP who raised concerns about...
September 9, 2021
Moral Money
How to turn climate pledges made into promises kept Premium content
...Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister (and a former FT editor) noted that one of the group’s new offices would be in Montreal....
November 4, 2021
The Big Read
The donor, the Russian deals and the Conservative money machine
...When copies of the memos reached Amersi, his lawyers sent letters to Soames and to Charlotte Leslie, the former Tory MP who had written them....
July 7, 2021
Scotland
Salmond moves to take Scottish government to court again
...Salmond’s threat of court action centred on Leslie Evans, Scotland’s permanent secretary, marks a new chapter in his bitter rift with the government he used to lead and with his successor and former protégé...
March 24, 2021
Best FT Weekend long reads of 2021
How the race for renewable energy is reshaping global politics
...Steven Chu, former US energy secretary, says that it is “absolutely” a concern for the US to rely on Chinese supply chains for its energy transition....
February 4, 2021
Climate change
Johnson weighs pledging Britain to tougher emissions cuts target
...David Cameron, the former prime minister, and William Hague, former foreign secretary, have turned down the chance to chair COP26, and the role has been assigned to Alok Sharma, the business secretary....
December 2, 2020
Climate change
UK challenges other nations with emissions upgrade
...The government has also yet to spell out how it will deliver on former prime minister Theresa May’s commitment for the UK to have net zero emissions by 2050, although Mr Johnson last month outlined some...
December 3, 2020

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