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    Leslie Hook

    Natural Resources Editor

    Leslie Hook leads the FT's coverage of natural resources, with a special focus on mining and the powerful trading houses that ship raw materials around the globe.

    Her prior roles at the FT include environment and clean energy correspondent, San Francisco correspondent and Beijing correspondent.

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    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Climate change
      BlackRock breaks with Glencore over environment policy

      Latest filings show two top 10 shareholders voted against Swiss miner’s climate plan

      Glencore’s Bulga Coal Complex
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Glencore
      Big investors seek damages from Glencore over ‘untrue statements’ in prospectuses

      Asset managers’ legal action follows trading house’s guilty pleas to bribery and corruption last year

      Workers in Glencore’s Mutanda mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      News in-depthIndustrial metals
      Aluminium price slump ‘nearing a bottom’ as clean energy demand rises

      Metal has fallen 40% from last year’s high amid worries about global growth

      A fork-lift truck driver picks up bound stacks of aluminium ingots
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Office of Gas & Electricity Markets UK
      Ofgem announces new British energy cap of £1,923

      Limited cut still means average annual household bills will be about £600 higher than before Ukraine war

      Electricity pylons, in mist, stretching into the distance
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Bribery and corruption
      Serious Fraud Office drops ENRC case after 10-year investigation

      UK agency also shuts other probes including corruption inquiry into Rio Tinto

    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      Mining
      Ukraine war thrusts fertiliser minerals to centre of food security debate

      Prices are back at prewar levels but mining companies are expanding production in anticipation of rising demand

      A man looks at a store of potassium chloride
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      The new commodity superpowers

      In the first part of a series, countries that produce the metals central to the energy transition want to rewrite the rules of mineral extraction

    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      Copper
      Miner Rio Tinto to test ‘new frontiers’ as copper age dawns

      Anglo-Australian group rethinks strategy in race to extract metal vital for clean energy transition

      A worker at Rio’s Oyu Tolgoi mine in southern Mongolia
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      Energy Source
      Why Big Oil isn’t worried about its falling profits Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, who’s been burning all that coal?

    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Commodities
      Mining companies warn of weak commodity price outlook

      ‘Covid overhangs’ in Chinese economy have sapped demand for metals, says Anglo American chief

      Steel wires at a warehouse in Dalian, China.
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      Rio Tinto PLC
      Rio Tinto admits 2025 climate target in jeopardy without carbon offsetting

      Miner posts lowest first-half earnings in three years on softer commodity prices

      The Rio Tinto logo is displayed on a visitor’s hard hat
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      Commodities
      Recycling is key to the energy transition, new report shows Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, a look into how China’s sluggish economy will affect oil demand

      A worker with car batteries at a factory for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co. Ltd, which makes lithium batteries for electric cars and other uses
    • Monday, 24 July, 2023
      News in-depthNews in-depth3 min
      How climate-friendly innovations can cool cities | FT Climate Capital

      As global temperatures rise, our cities are heating up, and that’s adding to the problem

      FT Climate Capital: Cooling cities sustainably
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      Commodities
      Indian ban on rice exports stokes fears of global food inflation

      Action by grain’s biggest exporter comes in same week that Russia targets wheat

      A worker carries boiled rice in a wheelbarrow in Kolkata, India
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia bombs Ukraine grain silos in ‘barbarian’ attack on food supplies

      Third consecutive night of air strikes on ports follows threat to target grain ships

      A man surveys bombed buildings in Odesa
    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Glencore
      Glencore boss considers the unthinkable: spinning off coal

      Gary Nagle faces growing shareholder concern over mining company’s climate plans

      A stacker-reclaimer operates next to stockpiles of coal at the Newcastle Coal Terminal in Australia
    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      Special purpose acquisition companies
      Miner ACG to raise $300mn in test of London’s capital markets

      Spac seeks to buy mines in Brazil in deal backed by Glencore, Stellantis and Volkswagen

    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Glencore
      Glencore chief says European investors too focused on ESG

      New York more attractive place to list than London as US investors ‘more pragmatic’, says Nagle

      Emissions from the coal mine, surrounded by pine trees and hills, rise towards low clouds
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      London Metal Exchange Ltd
      The day nickel trades gave LME a rude awakening

      Judicial review hears of exchange’s actions in March 2022 when it feared market had turned disorderly

      The floor of the London Metal Exchange
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Energy Source
      Fall in gas prices widens LNG market Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, a shortage of electricians threatens to slow US clean energy boom

      LNG tanker at sea
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      London Metal Exchange Ltd
      Elliott accuses LME of rushed decision over cancelled nickel trades

      US hedge fund seeks $456mn compensation in case that could have ramifications for London’s role as commodity trading hub

      Traders in the Ring at the London Metal Exchange
    • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
      Renewable energy
      UK’s first deep geothermal energy project for 37 years switched on

      Plant at Eden Project in Cornwall highlights opportunities of drawing heat from Earth’s core

      Biomes at the Eden Project in Cornwall
    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      Energy sector
      UK accused of ‘sleep walking’ over developing green hydrogen

      Billionaire investor and mining magnate Andrew Forrest urges UK and Europe to match US on clean energy subsidies

      Andrew Forrest
    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      Agricultural commodities
      Bunge to buy Glencore-backed Viterra in $8.2bn agribusiness deal

      Combined group to rival largest global grain and oilseed handlers

      A Viterra grain elevator in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Mining
      Glencore makes cash swoop for Teck Resources’ coal business

      Commodities group plans to combine unit with own operations in one of mining’s biggest takeover battles in a decade

      A Teck coal mine in British Columbia, Canada
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