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                Attracta Mooney

                Climate correspondent

                Attracta Mooney is the FT’s climate correspondent. Previously she was the FT’s investment correspondent, focusing especially on shareholders’ interactions with the companies they invest in, as well as the rise of environmental, social and governance investing. Attracta spent the early part of her career interviewing billionaires for two wealth publications.
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                • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
                  Climate change14 min
                  How farmers can cut emissions | FT Climate Capital

                  Can farming become more environmentally sustainable while continuing to feed a growing global population?

                  Can farming cut emissions?
                • Monday, 25 September, 2023
                  UK social housing
                  UK councils missing energy efficiency targets for social housing, non-profit says

                  Findings come days after ministers scrapped plans to force private landlords to upgrade their properties by 2028

                  New council houses in Top Valley, Nottingham
                • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
                  Climate change
                  What Rishi Sunak’s net zero overhaul means for UK emissions

                  Critics say the country is ignoring its role as a large historical emitter

                  A montage of a windmill, an EV charging, a home with a chimney and nuclear cooling towers
                • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
                  News in-depthClimate change
                  How net zero became an election issue around the globe

                  A subject once regarded as a peripheral concern for voters has moved to centre stage

                • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
                  ExplainerUK economy
                  What Sunak’s net zero pivot means for UK climate goals and the next election

                  PM is pushing back key green targets as he seeks to draw a sharp dividing line between the Tories and Labour

                • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
                  Automobiles
                  Car industry reels from Sunak’s retreat on net zero plans

                  UK prime minister delays ban on sales of new petrol and diesel engine car sales by five years

                  A Ford electric SUV
                • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
                  UK politics
                  Sunak prepares to water down UK green measures

                  PM under fire as he examines delaying initiatives intended to take the country to net zero emissions

                  Rishi Sunak
                • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
                  COP28
                  Al Gore blasts fossil fuel industry’s ‘capture’ of UN climate agenda

                  Former US vice-president calls for overhaul of COP process to abolish single-country veto

                  Al Gore
                • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
                  Climate change
                  Arbiter of corporate climate plans faces shake-up

                  Science Based Targets initiative to split into separate fee-charging company and non-profit standards body

                  Francesco Starace, chief executive officer and president of Enel Group
                • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
                  Climate change
                  G20 ‘missing in action’ on fossil fuels even as it boosts green energy goals

                  Leaders declaration avoids critical issue of ending the use of polluting oil and gas

                • Friday, 8 September, 2023
                  Climate change
                  World way off track to meet Paris climate goals, says UN report

                  First comprehensive stocktake urges countries to take ‘more ambitious’ action to cut emissions

                  A man carrying a girl and a dog in a flooded village in Greece
                • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
                  Climate change
                  African leaders back global carbon tax to pay for green energy in poorer nations

                  Climate summit calls for six-fold increase in renewable energy across the continent

                  Delegates on stage at the Africa Climate Summit
                • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
                  Climate change
                  World heat records ‘smashed’ in northern hemisphere summer, scientists say

                  ‘Season of simmering’ in planet’s warmest June to August period since documentation began in 1940

                  A man pours water over himself
                • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
                  G20
                  Major Indian companies push for climate action in letter to G20

                  Big polluters and clean tech companies join to call for urgent steps to deal with the ‘unforgiving’ effects of global warming

                  Indian prime minister Narendra Modi
                • Monday, 28 August, 2023
                  InterviewClimate change
                  John Kerry urges oil and gas chiefs to bring climate change plans to UN summit

                  US climate envoy calls for concrete proposals for renewable energy investment and emissions cuts by 2030

                  US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks at The Signet Library during the first in a series of lectures focusing on the Climate Crisis
                • Friday, 25 August, 2023
                  Climate change
                  UN warns banks that fund Saudi Aramco about possible human rights breach

                  Financiers of world’s biggest corporate emitter of greenhouse gases told they could be violating international law

                  Saudi Aramco’s crude oil processing facility, in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia
                • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
                  Barclays PLC
                  National Trust under pressure to ditch Barclays over fossil fuel funding

                  Grandson of one of conservation charity’s largest donors adds to criticism of relationship

                  Dyrham Park in South Gloucestershire, a National Trust property.
                • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
                  Management
                  How to manage the climate-conscious worker

                  A rising number of employees are concerned about the environment, presenting new challenges for bosses

                  Magali Anderson, chief sustainability and innovation officer at Swiss cement maker Holcim
                • Saturday, 12 August, 2023
                  COP28
                  UAE-owned company hires lobbyists to deflect climate talks criticism

                  Petrostate seeks to strengthen reputation with PR blitz as it prepares to host COP28

                  Sultan al-Jaber
                • Friday, 11 August, 2023
                  Wildfires
                  Death toll from Hawaii wildfires climbs to 55

                  Firefighters are still battling multiple blazes across Maui, which have destroyed homes and businesses

                • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
                  FT CollectionsClimate Exchange
                  Kenya’s William Ruto: ‘We are not running away from our debt’

                  President of east African state calls for a global green bank and says a pause on repayments would help finance development

                • Monday, 31 July, 2023
                  FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
                  The economic impact of extreme heat

                  Investment flows poised for historic shift after ‘giant leap’ by Bank of Japan

                • Friday, 28 July, 2023
                  Climate change
                  China accused of using ‘wrecking tactics’ at climate talks

                  Impasse at G20 despite moves by Washington and Beijing to rekindle bilateral discussions

                  The G20 meeting is being held in Chennai, India
                • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
                  UK energy
                  Shapps vows to ‘max out’ UK’s North Sea oil and gas reserves

                  Energy minister says Britain has ‘no option’ but to extract remaining fossil fuel reserves to ensure energy security

                  Grant Shapps, secretary of state for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
                • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
                  Climate change
                  G20 deal on fossil fuels blocked after Saudi opposition

                  Energy ministers clash over bid to cut use of oil, gas and coal

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