The top three threats facing companies in 2024 – and how to prepare January 19, 2024 With businesses facing a unique convergence of risks in 2024, Axa deputy chief executive officer Frédéric de Courtois looks at how to prepare.
EU countries fail to agree energy reforms after coal subsidy clash June 20, 2023 European Union countries have failed to agree on planned new rules for the bloc's power market, after clashing over coal subsidies.
Angry motorists clash with Just Stop Oil on Blackfriars, Tower and London Bridges May 23, 2023 Climate change protesters have again clashed with drivers as they staged marches on three bridges in central London. Forty-five Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists blocked the roads on Blackfriars, London and Tower bridges on Tuesday morning by walking slowly in the road. One man was handcuffed by police after he appeared to push two JSO [...]
James Cleverly to make landmark China visit in bid to ‘protect UK national security’ August 29, 2023 Foreign secretary James Cleverly will make a landmark visit to China on Wednesday in a bid to reaffirm the UK’s protection of national security. Cleverly, who is currently in the Philippines, will fly to Beijing on August 30 for high-level talks with top officials including vice president Han Zheng and foreign affairs minister Wang Yi. [...]
Cynical investors trading off of the ESG wave have burst a sustainable finance bubble July 11, 2023 The government must prove it is serious about ESG and sustainable investing, so companies and investors know they are safe to follow through, writes James Alexander
Exxon says world set to fail two degrees global warming cap by 2050 August 29, 2023 Oil and natural gas are still projected to meet more than half of the world’s energy needs in 2050, or 54 per cent, Exxon Mobil announced.
We won’t reach a climate solution without all our partners in Asia – including China June 5, 2023 To reach climate solutions, especially involving financial services, we need to engage with all Asian countries - including China. Without a dialogue with big emitters, we won't achieve the results we want, writes Nicholas Lyons
Explainer: Rishi Sunak vs the climate lobby July 7, 2023 Rishi Sunak has a thorn in his side that won’t go away, unfortunately for all of us: the climate crisis. This week, his government faced legal action over its revised climate strategy from campaign groups including Friends of the Earth and Good Law Project. The campaign groups went to the High Court challenging the climate [...]
COP28: Exxon Mobil boss rejects IEA criticism of carbon capture strategy December 2, 2023 Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods on Saturday rejected the International Energy Agency’s recent claim that using wide-scale carbon capture to fight climate change was an implausible “illusion”, saying the same could be said about electric vehicles and solar energy. “There is no solution set out there today that is at the scale to solve the [...]
COP28: Labour pledge to ‘make UK world’s green finance capital’ November 30, 2023 Labour would boost global investment by making Britain the green finance capital of the world, Sir Keir Starmer has said.