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...Somewhere in the distance, a car backfires and a stranded whale explodes, blubber rains down....
...The grown-ups holding back efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are not necessarily the same people, but they share the same aversion to radically unorthodox ideas....
...Before we begin today, I want to point out this research featured in the FT yesterday that found more Americans are aligning their political views with their investment holdings....
...But its speciality business agreed to insure thermal coal mining company Global Mining Holding Company, LLC, and its subsidiary Signal Peak Energy for up to $2mn, for the two years to November 2023, according...
...The energy tycoon first built his empire by snapping up unloved, often carbon-intensive energy businesses on the cheap, often using external financing....
...“As Amazon seeks to become a dominant player in logistics while being carbon neutral, we believe that Rivian will be their end-to-end fleet provider of choice,” he wrote....
...And thanks to my splendid colleague Claire Jones for standing in on Free Lunch last week with an excellent piece on why consumer spending is holding up despite rising interest rates....
...Shell is under fire on several fronts after ABP, the Dutch pension fund, announced plans earlier in the week to divest all its holdings in fossil fuel companies, including Shell, because it saw insufficient...
...As fires become more frequent, a larger proportion of forests will be in a degraded state, holding less carbon and less biodiversity. There is still uncertainty about where and how wildfires will hit....
...There’s still time for the rain to return. But India’s monsoons are holding more and more surprises....
...“That’s why there’s no more rain.” Wilkin at Kew agrees there could be a connection between local deforestation and changing rain patterns....
...The comments by Ben van Beurden follow a decision this week by one of the world’s largest pension funds to sell its entire holdings in fossil fuel companies and come a day after it was revealed that Daniel...
...Yet BP has devoted just 16 per cent of its $9.2bn in 2021 capital expenditure to low carbon, compared with 39 per cent for oil and 24 per cent for gas....
...Next week, the UN is holding an inaugural Food System Summit aimed at presenting solutions on transforming global food supply chains....
...Whereas once facades were an integral part of the building — walls that supported the structure — now they are membranes, rain screens, barely able to support even their own weight. Clothing....
...But details of how the ETS and the carbon border tax could contribute to own resources could also be held back....
...Plus, we’ve seen everything from wildfires to intense rain this summer. But can we link any of it directly to global warming?...
...“Rain coming! Time to go!” cries the captain. “Right,” Stefan says. “Now. Don’t look down.”...
...They didn’t do anything to cause climate change, but because they rely on rain for their livelihoods, they are at the front lines of coping with it.”...
...The rains have mercifully come early to Thailand this year, so it may not be until next year that the official inertia is tested. In the meantime, everybody will carry on holding their breath....
...Lex questions whether the Alphabet holding company is still necessary, as it had been largely designed to allow the founders to step back from day-to-day management....
...Tech adds to engagement at galleries The average gallery visitor spends 15-30 seconds looking at a work of art before moving on, but viewing Turner's famous Rain, Steam and Speed painting can take seven...
...But just as the plaudits started rolling in, a new report from Greenpeace came out to rain on the oil major’s parade....
...People are holding signs on the interstate highway that say “THANK YOU TRUCKERS!” (FT) Lockdown fatigue sets in Italians have begun to chafe as the social and economic consequences bite....
...“Over the past year we have had long periods without rain as well as periods of tremendous heat....
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