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  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    PerspectivesLucy Kenningham
    Who really wants to swim in the Seine?

    Or the Spree? Or the Parramatta? Since the Paris Olympics, the movement to make city rivers swimmable has been making waves — but does the idea hold water?

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  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Carbon capture and storage
    Drive to scrub carbon from air stalls as Trump takes aim at renewables

    Decline in carbon capture wells comes as US Energy Department cancels $3.7bn for clean energy grants

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  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    News in-depthRenewable energy
    Chinese battery glut plugs into solar boom to power Pakistan

    Steep fall in energy storage prices proves a game-changer for businesses

    Lucky’s solar panels and wind turbines are close to its cement production facilities
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    The Big Read
    Europe’s fight to get rid of ‘forever chemicals’

    A man-made molecule called TFA is seeping into waterways across the continent. But industry executives warn about the cost of EU efforts to eradicate pollution

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  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    ExxonMobil
    German asset manager divests Exxon shares over ‘insufficient’ climate commitment

    Union Investment sold out of US oil major and smaller peer EOG Resources after review

    The ExxonMobil Baytown Olefins Plant emitting thick smoke clouds
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    Special ReportBusiness Education: Executive Education 2025
    Retreat of DEI has not changed priorities of executive education

    Many business schools are responding with renewed commitment to diversity and environmental issues

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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    Sustainability
    Why nature loss matters to companies — and what they can do

    Many businesses are discovering that ecosystems are not just worth safeguarding, they are worth investing in

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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    Climate change
    Scientists accuse New Zealand and Ireland of trying to cover up livestock emissions

    ‘Accounting trick’ to support methane-emitting sectors undermines fight against climate change, say researchers

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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK airports
    Ministers to fast-track London airspace redesign in push for growth

    New ‘airspace design service’ aims to vastly boost flight numbers but could mean new communities face noise pollution

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Climate change
    Global temperature rise could spike to near 2C for first time in the next five years, WMO says

    Warming of more than 1.5C from pre-industrial levels is expected to become more ‘commonplace’

    Dubai hit a record May temperature of 51.6C in recent days
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Moral Money
    The opportunity in China’s solar ‘overcapacity’ Premium content

    Researchers argue country’s ‘spare’ capacity could enable the world to meet clean energy goals

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    The pitch for growth: will football help regenerate England’s cities?

    Clubs in several big cities want to use new stadiums to redevelop entire areas. But they seek government funding to make the projects work

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Biofuels
    Commodities giant ADM exploits green fuel loophole, UK producers say

    US company benefits from double subsidy on biofuels as surge in imports threatens to wipe UK ethanol industry

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Richard Florida
    America needs to make its cities family-friendly again

    The pandemic accelerated an urban exodus that was already well under way

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Energy Source
    Trump’s tax bill poses existential threat to US green hydrogen industry Premium content

    Legislation could cut subsidies that the sector relies on to make its projects financially viable

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Fashion
    Will new laws help — or hinder — fashion’s waste problem?

    Legislation in the US and EU would make brands responsible for the afterlives of their products

  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Renewable energy
    Welsh hydropower plant pitches for new role in renewables era

    Plan to revamp its six turbines could help UK move to cleaner energy

    Dinorwig power station in north Wales
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Gardens
    Growth potential: the small north London garden with big eco ambitions

    From tarmacked plot to lush green sanctuary, the somewhat secret OmVed Gardens is relaunching as the ‘UK’s first centre for food, ecology and creativity’. It’s both local community hub and agitator for global change

  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Thames Water
    Thames Water fined £123mn over sewage leaks and ‘undeserved’ dividends

    Repeated failings led to raw effluent pouring into waterways, watchdog finds

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  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Moral Money
    How the world’s largest wealth fund looks at climate risk Premium content

    Norway’s giant oil fund thinks climate threats to valuations have been underestimated

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  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Climate change
    Peru farmer’s climate case against German power group thrown out

    Court in Germany confirms principle of liability but rules the risk of flooding to his property was not high enough

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  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Stablecoins reconsidered Premium content

    Plus solar stocks vs Trump

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  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    FT CollectionsTechnology
    Tech Exchange

    This series features conversations between FT journalists and the technology industry’s leaders, innovators, and thinkers. In the latest instalment, Luther Lowe of Y Combinator discusses representation for Little Tech

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  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    LexUK energy
    UK’s clean energy goals are reassuringly unattainable Premium content

    Ambition, at the very least, spurs action

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  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
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