Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The EU, Australia, South Africa and India are among the big polluters which missed a UN deadline for new climate targets, coming up against economic constraints and political pressure following the Trump election. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU has struck a deal to impose sweeping new rules on food and textile waste, putting the costs of clean-up on companies and reshaping the economics for ecommerce platforms operating across the continent. The … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The melting of the world’s glaciers is “accelerating alarmingly” to lose the equivalent of three Olympic swimming pools each second, with Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees the worst affected, research has found. The study, carried out … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world General Motors aims to cut Tesla’s lead with lower cost batteries even though the EV industry will suffer if Donald Trump ends consumer tax breaks as promised, said the carmaker’s battery guru Kurt … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are some things in global finance which you really shouldn’t look at too closely if you value your sanity. Repo and money markets would definitely be one. But even the banking system’s funding arrangements … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Uncertainty about European environmental rules is deterring investment in food production and pushing up prices, according to the head of Scandinavia’s largest dairy producer. “The general worry is what will the long term regulation on … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU wants to replace at least some of the fertiliser it imports from Russia with products processed from “homegrown” animal dung and urine to reduce revenues going to Moscow’s war machine. Christophe Hansen, the … Read more
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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US commodities trader Archer Daniels Midland has pledged to stick with its climate commitments, despite looser regulations under Donald Trump that make it easier for companies to scale back environmental goals. Ismael Roig, … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Britain’s steel industry has warned that it faces more than £150mn in annual costs under government plans to phase out allowances that allow manufacturers to emit greenhouse gases for free. Ministers plan to wind down … Read more