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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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    • Sunday, 10 December, 2023
      COP28
      Saudi Arabia piles pressure on UAE to shift COP28 focus away from oil and gas

      EU ministers criticise Opec over attempts to switch emphasis to emissions as tensions mount at climate talks in Dubai

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    • Saturday, 9 December, 2023
      Person in the News
      Sultan al-Jaber, the hard-charging oil head trying to broker COP28 consensus

      Known for his steely style, the Emirati technocrat must persuade countries to reach a deal

      Joe Cummings illustration of Sultan al-Jaber
    • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
      Climate change
      Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels to hit record this year

      Latest research shows goals of Paris accord are increasingly in jeopardy as almost 200 countries gather at COP28

      Haze obscures the Dubai skyline including Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building on December 4, 2023. The United Arab Emirates is choking under “alarmingly high” air pollution levels fed by its fossil fuel industry, Human Rights Watch warned on December 4, as the oil-rich country hosts the UN’s COP28 climate talks in Dubai. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      COP28
      Big business mixes with geopolitics at expanded UN climate summit

      Dozens of chief executives attend COP28 in Dubai as critics label it a ‘trade show’

      Attendees at COP28 listen to its president Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber
    • Saturday, 2 December, 2023
      COP28
      Fossil fuel companies sign up to emissions reduction pact at COP28

      Methane, renewable and nuclear pledges made at climate conference in Dubai

      Sultan al-Jaber and Amin Nasser
    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      ExplainerCOP28
      COP28: Five other things from ‘leaders day’ at UN climate summit

      Global action day one: Japan, UK, Climate Club, women shortage, and banks volunteering their own standards

    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      COP28
      World Bank leader says climate loss and damage fund is a ‘beginning’

      Money from historic agreement would not be made available before ‘sometime next year’

      World Bank president Ajay Banga
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      COP28
      COP28 secures more than $420mn to seed loss and damage fund

      UN climate conference gets ‘a running start’ as EU joins five other countries to make pledges

    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Climate change
      UAE to launch $30bn investment fund at COP28

      UN climate summit host seeks to bolster credentials via initiative with BlackRock, TPG and Brookfield

      COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber, right, opened the summit with UN top climate official Simon Stiell in Dubai on Thursday
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Climate change
      World heading for hot 2024 after records ‘shattered’ in 2023, says WMO

      Agency data shows nine years from 2015 to 2023 were warmest on record

      A wildfire in the village of Avantas, Greece, in August
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      COP28
      EU to lobby for tax on aeroplane fuel at COP28

      ‘We tax everything alive . . . but not aviation’, says climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra

      Passengers wait for their flights at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      COP28
      COP28 president denies using UN climate summit to pitch oil deals

      UAE’s Sultan al-Jaber says documents showing talking points are ‘false’ but acknowledges being asked to ‘engage’

      Sultan al-Jaber
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      Special ReportManaging Climate Change
      Pressure mounts ahead of COP28 to dump fossil fuels

      Success at the UN summit in Dubai will be measured by whether a global deal can be reached on ending their use

    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      The Big Read
      The cheque book COP: UAE’s $200bn bid for climate influence

      The summit host is investing big in clean energy to ensure talks are a success — and possibly to sway the outcome, critics say

      Sultan al-Jaber
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      COP28: Climate summit tries to kick fossil fuel habit

      Turkey’s exports to Russia of goods vital for Moscow’s war machine have soared this year

    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Climate change
      Hunt criticised for downgrading climate change in BoE guidance

      UK chancellor heightens focus on economic growth in list of four priorities for Financial Policy Committee

      A climate crisis protest in central London in August
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      COP28
      UK, Canada and Germany lead fresh push against coal power at COP28

      Letter by ministers from 15 countries urges tougher action after failure to make progress since pact signed two years ago

      A stacker reclaimer at the Richards Bay Coal Terminal, Richards Bay harbour, South Africa
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Carbon tax
      UK to press ahead with carbon border tax in 2026

      Programme would mirror scheme launched by EU

      Employees lift steel products at a steel market in Shenyang, China
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Climate change
      China makes ‘opening play’ on methane policy ahead of UN climate summit

      The gas is responsible for an estimated one-third of the rise in global temperatures during the industrial era

      John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua
    • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
      COP28
      UN climate fund battle looms over US stance on financing

      Geopolitical divisions overshadow plan for scheme to help countries cope with destruction from global warming

      A man giving a speech while standing in the ocean
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      FT CollectionsClimate Exchange
      Bill Gates: There are amazing climate technologies — getting them out is the challenge

      Billionaire explains the rationale behind his Breakthrough fund investments in more than 100 nascent companies

    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Climate change
      Western countries clash with Saudi Arabia over UN climate fund

      Kingdom resists efforts to broaden base of donors for poorer countries coping with consequences of environmental fallout

      People walk past the entrance of the convention centre before the opening session of the Middle East and North Africa Climate Week in October
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Climate change
      Developing countries need up to $387bn a year to adapt to extreme weather, says UN

      Finance flows shrink even as climate-related disasters rise

      Destroyed buildings in Acapulco after a recent hurricane
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      COP28
      Future of fossil fuels leaves nations at odds ahead of UN climate summit

      France, Spain, Ireland, Kenya and 11 other countries push for an end to new oil and gas projects

      Sultan al-Jaber, president-designate of COP28
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Climate change
      UN science body head fears lower chance of keeping global warming to 1.5C

      Rise in emissions since original IPCC report 2 years ago now means less than one-third probability of hitting target

      Jim Skea, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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