Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the ESG investing myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Amid growing calls for a big increase in finance for ocean protection, blue bonds have emerged as a potentially crucial means of mobilising capital. Here is what you need to know about this nascent asset … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the Venta Maersk, a ship owned by Denmark’s AP Møller-Maersk, set sail in 2018 from Vladivostok in the far east of Russia towards St Petersburg in the west, the voyage was reported as a … Read more
Hours before King Charles, former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell-Horner and astronaut Tim Peake were among the stars gracing the “blue” carpet at the London screening of Ocean with David Attenborough last month, the real premiere of the documentary took place at the same venue. Rather than adults, it was more than 1,000 students from England … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump’s interest in deep-sea mining emerged with awkward timing for the organisers of this month’s UN Ocean Conference in the French coastal city of Nice. In late April the US president signed an executive … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. John Kerry served as the 68th US Secretary of State and President Biden’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. He drives oceans and climate initiatives at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Our global ocean, which … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Work & Careers myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Messages from the archive of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist WhatsApp to Stephen: Was just talking to one of our rivals at Portbury — apparently he is now using ChatGPT to do all his … Read more
UN Ocean Conference hopes to reach a deal on marine protection as tensions rise over deep-sea mining. Plus: what melting Arctic ice means for shipping; ‘alarming’ seaweed loss; a guide to blue bonds; and John Kerry on why it is time to act to save oceans Source link
During Ocado’s most recent earnings call, chief executive Tim Steiner said the group’s advances in artificial intelligence and robotics had allowed it to fulfil online grocery shops at an ever faster pace. In 2012, it took 25 minutes of human labour to pick a 50-item order. That is now down to 10. But Ocado’s technological … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning digital ID project is being rolled out in the UK, giving Britons access to verification services that the entrepreneur claims are essential for distinguishing between human and artificial intelligence. Altman’s World project … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Coal India, the world’s largest coal-producing company, is reopening more than 30 mines and launching up to five more on greenfield sites this year, saying the country’s renewables sector is yet unable to meet its … Read more