Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Reeves aims to close £40bn funding gap as she plans tax rises in Budget
    • Harris launches media blitz in bid to regain momentum against Trump
    • China’s economic ills are serious but not incurable
    • Trump pledges to impose sweeping tariffs on imported cars
    • US warns Israel humanitarian crisis in Gaza could threaten military aid
  • UK
    Sections
    • UK Home
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
    Most Read
    • Reeves aims to close £40bn funding gap as she plans tax rises in Budget
    • General Sir Michael Jackson, 1944-2024
    • Rise of Gail’s shows big British appetite for craft bakery
    • Rachel Reeves should not appease bond market vigilantes
    • This UK recruitment downturn looks set to last
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • ASML shares drop sharply after warning on semiconductor recovery
    • Founder Anne Wojcicki races to rescue 23andMe
    • Boeing seeks up to $35bn to bolster its balance sheet
    • LVMH reports fall in third quarter sales and warns of ‘uncertain’ outlook
    • Elon Musk’s feat of engineering
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • ASML shares drop sharply after warning on semiconductor recovery
    • Founder Anne Wojcicki races to rescue 23andMe
    • Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi | 5 Questions
    • Google orders small modular nuclear reactors for its data centres
    • Podcaster Stebbings raises one of Europe’s biggest venture funds
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • ASML shares drop sharply after warning on semiconductor recovery
    • Boeing seeks up to $35bn to bolster its balance sheet
    • Rachel Reeves should not appease bond market vigilantes
    • The Fed should beware declaring the war on inflation over prematurely
    • American love of credit cards will blunt instant payment appeal
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • China’s economic ills are serious but not incurable
    • America’s dead heat Trump-Harris election
    • Elon Musk’s feat of engineering
    • The sperm donor bros of tech
    • Rise of Gail’s shows big British appetite for craft bakery
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • This UK recruitment downturn looks set to last
    • Podcaster Stebbings raises one of Europe’s biggest venture funds
    • Older alumni using Executive MBAs as start-up springboards, FT ranking shows
    • Back to the (retro)future: Carlo Scarpa’s Modernist Venice
    • Why mature executives return to study for an EMBA
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • LVMH reports fall in third quarter sales and warns of ‘uncertain’ outlook
    • Rivals — starry Jilly Cooper bonkbuster is puerile, gratuitous and an absolute riot
    • Five green gadgets to buy now
    • The skincare wisdom of Emma Lewisham
    • ‘More Neutra than Neutra’: how to upgrade an architectural gem 
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • UK
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

Pollution

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    France pushes for ‘flexibility’ on EU car emissions rules

    Economy minister says Paris is sounding out European partners to see what can be done

    Cars are stopped in slowdowns and traffic jams during vacation departures on the first Saturday in July near Valence, France
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Energy Source
    Is LNG worse for the climate than coal? Premium content

    A study challenges the oil and gas industry’s assertion that the fuel is cleaner than the commodity

    A shrimp boat moves past storage tanks at an LNG export terminal
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Food Safety
    UK food safety watchdog to probe lead levels near abandoned mines

    Risk assessment by Food Standards Agency comes after FT investigation into impact of toxic metal

    A ruined building at the site of an old lead mine in Cwmystwyth, central Wales
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    Travel
    Can a cruise ship be sustainable?

    Meet the captain hoping to pioneer a more environmentally friendly way to see the polar regions — using rigid sails and solar power

    A computer image of a ship with an icy landscape behind it. The ship has five large rigid sail-like structures
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    UK water companies fined £158mn for missing sewage targets

    Regulator Ofwat calls on industry to address ‘issues of culture and leadership’

    An overflow pipe releases water into the River Thames
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Special ReportBusiness School Sustainable Education
    Business school teaching case study: capture or cut carbon to make steel greener?

    The sector is responsible for one-tenth of global annual greenhouse gas emissions but cleaning up the production process is challenging

    A worker wearing protective gear stands silhouetted against the intense orange glow of molten metal in an industrial foundry. The person is holding a long rod and is surrounded by rising smoke and flames
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s farewell to the power of King Coal

    The UK’s journey to low-carbon electricity is a case study for others

    A general view of Ratcliffe On Soar power station
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    ExxonMobil
    California accuses Exxon of misleading public on plastic recycling

    Allegations arrive as plastics play a growing role in supporting oil demand

    Rows of plastic await recycling in a warehouse
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Six English water companies accused of overcharging customers by up to £1.5bn

    Groups allegedly under-reported scale of their sewage pollution

    Members of the public attend a paddle-out protest organised by environmental campaign group Surfers Against Sewage in Falmouth, Cornwall
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    EU agriculture
    Farming must pay for its emissions, says EU chief climate scientist

    ‘Price signal’ is needed to reduce agricultural greenhouse gases and meet bloc’s targets

    A protest by French farmers in Paris in February
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Climate legislation
    The Hague will become first city to ban fossil fuel ads by law

    Legally binding crackdown will include promotion of petrol cars, flights and cruise ships

    A passenger walks past a poster advertising Heathrow’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions at the airport’s Terminal 5
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Climate change
    UK court quashes Cumbrian coal mine plan

    Decision to block first new colliery in 30 years highlights shift away from fossil fuel projects under Labour government

    An artist’s impression of the proposed Woodhouse Colliery
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    News in-depthClimate Capital
    Pharma groups to tackle greenhouse gases from asthma inhalers

    GSK and AstraZeneca plan final trials to upgrade propellants that cause much of the sector’s carbon footprint

    A person pulls an asthma inhaler out of their jeans pocket
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Vera Songwe
    The fragmentation of carbon markets must be fixed

    Policymakers need to implement global standards if we are to scale up the role of credits

    Smoke billows from the chimneys of a factory in Dalian, China
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Water executives to face jail if they obstruct UK investigations

    New legislation gives regulator Ofwat extra powers on executive pay at utility companies

    Waste water flows out of a pipe into a river
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Middle East war
    Houthi rebels to allow burning Red Sea oil tanker to be salvaged

    Fire onboard the Greek-owned Sounion had sparked warning of an imminent ‘ecological disaster’

    Flames and smoke rising from the Sounion oil tanker in the Red Sea on August 25 2024
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Middle East war
    Maritime chief warns of oil spill risk from stricken Red Sea vessel

    The Sounion has a cargo of 1mn barrels of crude and is on fire after being attacked by Houthi rebels in Yemen

    A photo of the stricken Sounion oil tanker
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Houthi movement
    Pentagon warns Red Sea tanker risks ‘environmental catastrophe’

    US says vessel targeted by Houthis appears to be leaking crude from its 1mn-barrel cargo

    Flames and smoke rise from the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    Can UK industry make carbon capture work?

    The technology offers huge benefits for polluters struggling to reduce emissions and meet climate goals, but it is untested at scale

    A worker at VPI Immingham power station
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Plastic pollution
    US to support global treaty aiming to reduce production of plastic

    Backing from one of world’s largest producers will boost prospect of UN agreement for manufacturing cap

    An art installation of a water tap leaking plastics while people clean up a beach in Chile
  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
    UK urged to ban leaded aviation fuel for small planes

    Calls to follow US and EU come after warnings over impact of toxic metal on human health

    A small aircraft
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    From the power of renewables to the wisdom of animals — new books on the environment

    The latest climate writing offers important messages on ways to wean the world off fossil fuels and protect its wildernesses

  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Airlines
    UK watchdog bans ‘misleading’ Virgin Atlantic ad about sustainable fuel

    Airline rebuked for claims about first long-haul flight to be fully powered by cooking and animal fats

    Virgin Atlantic airline
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Thames Water
    Thames Water fined £104mn over sewage discharges

    Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water also sanctioned by regulator

    Thames Water’s Deephams Sewage Treatment Works in London
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Climate change
    Brazil minister warns carbon credit buyers to beware fraud

    Environment minister Marina Silva says alleged criminal schemes in Amazon could harm reputation of credits

    Marina Silva during a news conference
Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Join us at an FT Live event

Discover unmissable flagship events and members only communities to expand your thinking and elevate your career

FT Live
Using Agricultural Innovation To Protect Biodiversity
How to tackle biodiversity loss while addressing the global food crisis?
Thursday, 24 OctoberAlianza Bioversity-CIAT, Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
FT Live
Managing Methane in the Energy Sector
Increasing returns while reducing emissions
Tuesday, 5 November252 High Holborn, London, UK
Explore all events

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2024. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:UK
International
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • UK
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Schools
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In