We asked the FT's climate corro @kenzabryan.ft.com to answer an all important question... just how toxic are your underpants, really? She took the commission very seriously and the answer is more clear cut than you think... as.ft.com/r/f8f9c6e3-4...

Forever chemicals are everywhere. Should we care?

How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety

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For all those seeking Italian conversation in London - come sip on negronis at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art on Thursday evening 💫 🇮🇹 🎄 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/registrazi...

Incontro e aperitivo natalizio

Prendi un aperitivo prima di natale con gli amici alla Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art. ULTIM’ORA: accesso alle gallerie incluso!

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After a decade on the run from the Italian justice system, how far would you go to obtain a diplomatic passport? Read our @alphaville.ft.com story on the life and death of the fugitive carbon credit broker who worked with Dubai royalty and Liberia’s fallen hero. www.ft.com/content/84d9...

The extraordinary life and mysterious death of a carbon credits broker

How an Italian fugitive used diplomatic immunity to work with Dubai royalty and Liberia’s fallen hero

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I’m glad this extraordinary tale by @kenzabryan.ft.com is finally out. The carbon credit business is a LOT more interesting than I thought… on.ft.com/4lqMZMV

The extraordinary life and mysterious death of a carbon credits broker

How an Italian fugitive used diplomatic immunity to work with Dubai royalty and Liberia’s fallen hero

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Senior Bank of England staff members who resigned from climate and nature risk supervision roles have complained the central bank neglected the issues, leaving the UK financial sector underprepared. www.ft.com/content/c991...

Bank of England neglected climate and nature risk, say former senior staff

Ex-employees tell FT that climate change was deprioritised under governor Andrew Bailey

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Read the closing sentence... "These techniques are all considered more expensive or energy-intensive than cutting emissions in the first place by burning fewer #fossil fuels." @kenzabryan.ft.com

Investors pile into rocks to absorb carbon emissions

‘Enhanced weathering’ draws backers including Microsoft, Musk and JPMorgan

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🚨 New by @kenzabryan.ft.com: Neom climate adviser warns futuristic city could alter weather patterns www.ft.com/content/8bb4...

Neom climate adviser warns futuristic city could alter weather patterns

Vast construction project running across 170km raises environmental concerns

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NEW: Animation showing the locations of deep sea mining exploration areas. Read @kenzabryan.ft.com's excellent piece with beautiful illustration from @ian-bott.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/a09e... #dataviz

Read our scoop on a new frontline in America’s economic war with China: Donald Trump plans to stockpile deep sea critical metals. on.ft.com/42wG1OJ

Donald Trump plans to stockpile deep sea critical metals to counter China

US drafting order to collect ‘nodules’ from Pacific seabed for minerals used in battery supply chains

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There were always doubts about the efficacy of climate targets in executive pay - now some big companies are backtracking on.ft.com/41JCtsc - @kenzabryan.ft.com , Malcolm Moore and I look at the state of pay

Big companies backtrack on climate goals in bosses’ pay

[FREE TO READ] Groups from UBS and HSBC to BP and Starbucks have changed targets in executives’ pay plans

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Scoop: An employment tribunal case is set to test protections for taking action on climate change in the workplace. ➡️ Leading ad agency AMV faces claims it harassed a staff member after she warned its 🍫 / 🐈‍⬛ campaigns could “greenwash” Mars. on.ft.com/3FfmQ42 @climatewhistles.bsky.social

Top ad agency AMV faces claim over Mars ‘greenwashing’ ads dispute

[FREE TO READ] Chocolate and cat food campaigns at centre of employment tribunal cases

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Exclusive: The top US climate agency is rethinking its modelling of the critical Pacific Ocean La Niña and El Niño cycle that feeds into the world’s atmospheric shifts. Record hot sea temperatures globally are scrambling long-established weather patterns. www.ft.com/content/4c5d...

Scrambled weather cycle prompts meteorologists to rethink models

Top forecasting agencies in discussions after ‘uh-oh’ moment on key readings of Pacific Ocean temperatures

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Genuinely a bit shocked to win this against a murderer’s row of talent Thanks to all the sources who helped us this year and, of course, the tenacious and talent Gill Plimmer whose coat tails I rode on

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 2y ago

Winner of Business, Finance and Economics Journalism, supported by our headline sponsor Starling Bank, is Gill Plimmer and Robert Smith @bondhack.bsky.social of @financialtimes.com - congrats! #BritishJournalismAwards

Finally saw last night c.3am the relevance of having every country physically in a room Great power politics hashed out by US, EU, China, Saudi and Russia obviously overrode developing countries’ interests But India’s fury as the gavel went down was still impossible to ignore on.ft.com/3CJQZaw

UN climate summit’s $300bn deal slammed as ‘stage-managed’

[FREE TO READ] Poorer countries concede in fight with rich world and fossil fuel producers over funds to deal with global warming

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Poorer nations deride COP29 offer of $250bn to tackle climate change. US official briefs that even this will be a stretch. Alden Meyer, a senior associate at E3G: “My assumption is there is a little more loose change down the sofa.” on.ft.com/4hYeo8d

Poorer nations deride COP29 offer of $250bn to tackle climate change

Independent expert group says amount falls short of $390bn a year needed by 2035 to deal with effects of global warming

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UN climate conference organisers have tried to block campaigners from using the COP29.com domain name to attack fossil fuel companies, after Azerbaijan lost a battle to acquire the rights to it from a climate-conscious copper kitchenware company in India. www.ft.com/content/acd0...

Azerbaijan blocks COP29.com in fossil fuel domain name war

Kitchenware company near New Delhi sells name to campaigners attacking oil and gas groups

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If anyone has been able to make head or tail of the part of Brazil's new NDC on Article 6, please let me know… How can Brazil raise its ambition by selling ITMOs, which, as it says here, require corresponding adjustments that by definition mean those emissions cuts do not accrue to Brazil?

Our latest from Baku: France shuns COP29, Argentina boycotts it altogether, and Kazakhstan sends more delegates than any G7 country. www.ft.com/content/b06e...

France shuns COP29 as divisions deepen at UN climate summit

Argentina also withdraws negotiator as Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev lashes out at Emmanuel Macron

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How oil and gas companies disguise their methane emissions. Free to read, by Attracta Mooney and @janatausch.bsky.social @data.ft.com on.ft.com/3CxKWp8

Pilita Clark@pilitaclark.bsky.social · 2y ago

A really important piece here on.ft.com/3O4Roqd