Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU has presented options to member states for ways to ease its proposed 2040 climate target amid a broader effort to cut legislation and water down some of its more ambitious environmental rules, following … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Lindsay Hooper is chief executive of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership Across major businesses, responses to climate change are diverging. Some are soft-pedalling their plans or quietly removing references from public view. Others are … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Northvolt seemed like it had everything going for it. The Swedish industrial start-up was Europe’s pioneer in battery manufacturing, led by two former Tesla executives, backed financially by big corporate names such as Volkswagen, BMW … Read more
Banks’ climate goals are falling like dominoes. HSBC has told investors to expect a rejigged energy strategy and climate targets in the second half of the year, while Royal Bank of Canada has dropped its sustainable financing target altogether and UBS has pushed back a target to cut its greenhouse emissions to net zero by … Read more
“How much is too much?” asks Lars Fogh Mortensen, circular economy expert at the European Environment Agency, in a video explainer posted on social media. A pile of clothes are flung at Mortensen to illustrate how the consumption of clothing, footwear and other textiles in the EU has reached a record high. The EEA reported … Read more
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Builder.ai, one of the UK’s best-funded technology start-ups, is entering insolvency proceedings, weeks after restating its revenues and admitting “problems” under its past leadership. The London-based group, which is backed by Microsoft, informed employees it … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google plans to overhaul its search engine to add features that will allow it to function similarly to an AI chatbot, as the company races to compete with rivals such as OpenAI. From Tuesday, all … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The writer is the author of ‘Chip War’ Donald Trump’s dealmaking tour of the Middle East last week saw the sales of Boeing aircraft, the signing of defence contracts and the announcement of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cyber attacks take longer to fix, and are more of a distraction, than bosses of afflicted companies tend to think at the outset. That’s what fellow chief executives have told Stuart Machin of Marks and … Read more