Carbon footprint calculators "encouraged people to think climate change could be solved if enough of us stopped flying, went vegan and turned down heating, rather than if governments introduced more effective measures such as pollution rules or carbon taxes." as.ft.com/r/0eb13a62-4...
Have any questions about climate change? The always brilliant @pilitaclark.bsky.social and I will attempt to answer them tomorrow. Please do join us as.ft.com/r/3a112f80-f...
The Operation Kenova report has been released today on #stakeknife. Would really recommend this podcast series if you want to know more about MI5 and Stakeknife and how the families of their victims suffered (first series is great too) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
COP30 is literally on fire
Coalition rallies for COP30 ‘road map’ on how to cut oil and gas-In the corridors of the COP30 summit, work was being done to get the backing of more countries for a road map proposal, several people said.
www.ft.com/content/6c81... @attractamooney.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
New solar panels in the Ifo district in Ogun state, Nigeria
A nascent solar revolution is taking hold in Africa’s largest oil-producing nation, where even the Nigerian presidential residence is looking to the sun for a constant power supply on.ft.com/3INZqVG
PFZW has pulled €14bn equity mandate from BlackRock and €15bn from LGIM as it pivots to active strategies after a sustainability review. PFZW said it had “become more difficult to align with American managers when it comes to voting”. w/ @attractamooney.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e8ec...
Last month, I went to see @londonfirebrigade.bsky.social's new wildfire fighting equipment at Wanstead Flats, a large area of open grassland. The firefighters warned of a big risk of vegetation blazes this year, because of how dry and hot it's been. Today Wanstead Flats was on fire on.ft.com/4kBKff3
NEW: This week's climate graphic is on the European heatwave which has affected millions across the continent and sparked wildfires in Greece and Turkey causing 1,500 people to evacuate their homes in Crete
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report
www.ft.com/content/6390...
#dataviz #gistribe
Unexpected: US states are visiting Brussels to get advice on climate policy despite President Trump famously calling climate change a "hoax".
www.ft.com/content/5aed... w/ @attractamooney.bsky.social
For the past few years, fossil fuel financing by the world's top banks had been fallen. That all changed in 2025, when global banks led by JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America boosted fossil fuel financing by more than one-fifth on.ft.com/3Ttdfua
Excellent work by our talented colleague @gakuito.bsky.social from @nikkei.com on secondment with our team.
The animation shows smoke from the Candian wildfires crossing the Atlantic to Europe.
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's article on 'zombie fires'
www.ft.com/content/f87c...
#dataviz
Earlier this week, a granite memorial was erected at the base of the rapidly melting Yala glacier in Nepal. The message to future readers says: “We know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.” on.ft.com/3SD6XI0
"Sitting ducks": here's my piece on how many big western cities are at risk of climate-related disasters on.ft.com/3EIBtwZ
I've never heard of this group - thanks very much for putting it on my radar
For retired GP Hilary Farey, the Pope’s 2015 missive — where he called for urgent action to save the planet from environmental ruin — was a “big wake-up call”. She is one of a growing band of older women leading the fight against climate change on.ft.com/3Gk25EU
There's still uncertainty around this, but I was really struck by the WMO estimating that the long-term temperature rise is 1.34-1.41C above the pre-industrial level. It was only in 2021 that the IPCC said the world had warmed by 1.1C (based on years to 2020) on.ft.com/4hjSzhR
More than half of world’s most populated cities are getting wetter, research finds
@attractamooney.bsky.social & @sdbernard.bsky.social: on.ft.com/4bHv6ps
#Geography #ClimateChange
NEW: Animation showing a collapse of the polar vortex bringing unseasonal cold to northern Europe and Eurasia.
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report on the latest climate bulletin from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/e389...
#dataviz
NEW: This week's climate graphic looks at global glacier mass loss. ~273 gigatonnes of ice has been lost each year since 2000, enough water for the world's population for 30 years.
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report
www.ft.com/content/12db...
“Astonishing and, frankly terrifying” - hottest Jan on record shocks scientist as emerging La Niña fails to dampen record temperature on.ft.com/3WQI51X with @janatausch.bsky.social
Most big polluters to miss UN deadline for 2035 climate targets
Handful of countries ready to submit plans to tackle global warming in the next decade.
@attractamooney.bsky.social @alicemhancock.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/4hmFLrH
Engine No. 1, the hedge fund that bested ExxonMobil in a fight over its approach to climate change, is teaming up with the supermajor’s rival Chevron to build fossil fuel plants to meet soaring artificial intelligence-driven power demand. www.ft.com/content/ac6f...
Javier Milei eyes exit from Paris climate deal
https://www.ft.com/content/4957bc54-5b7b-496d-8c98-ba42ff508e85
NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...
Boxplot chart showing distribution of average daily surface air temperatures compared with pre-industrial average, by year, degrees Celsius. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C
2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C above pre-industrial levels
2015 to 2024 were the 10 warmest years on record
while this year is expected to be cooler, partly because of the diminished el niño impact, it will likely still rank among the 3 hottest
on.ft.com/3PwbnPC
Recently joined BlueSky? Here's a starter pack of FT journalists to follow go.bsky.app/GhSgfrR
Overheard on the platform this morning as trains were delayed and cancelled because of flooding: “There isn’t a river nearby, so how is there flooding?”
Good reminder that many people don’t understand flooding, or how climate change is exasperating it (and explains all the paving over of gardens)
Finally back to the real world, but here’s how the $300bn COP29 climate finance deal unfolded
on.ft.com/4fCfJjo
Missing me too I think please
