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Receive free Climate change updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Climate change news every morning. Brazil is set to launch a green transition plan worth hundreds of billions of dollars in public and private investments that officials hope will become the signature policy of leftwing president Luiz Inácio […]

Key to this reset is a greater focus on culture, history and farm stories, much like in the cheese and wine industry, Giovannucci says. He points to Parmigiana, Stilton and Champagne — products that are geographically specific and command good prices. “The question for us is, I think, whether the industry will be smart enough […]

The 169 wind turbines spinning off the Yorkshire coast are an engineering feat: each eight-megawatt model erected by Danish developer Orsted can power a home for 24 hours with a single rotation of its 81-metre turbine blades. Dozens of miles north, rival wind farm developer SSE is already upping the ante with its newest turbines, […]

Receive free Science updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Science news every morning. The earth is beyond “safe operating” limits in six out of nine key areas, damaging its ability to self-regulate and increasing the risk of abrupt and irreversible change due to human activity, according to the […]

Receive free Mars Inc updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Mars Inc news every morning. Mars has pledged to invest $1bn over the next three years in an effort to achieve net zero by 2050, after failing to meet an earlier emissions reduction target. The US snack and […]

Receive free Climate change updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Climate change news every morning. Climate change and the El Niño ocean warming effect are raising new concerns over public health around the world, as hotter and wetter weather helps the spread of infectious diseases. This summer in […]

“The Middle East has oil, China has rare earths,” declared then-Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1987 while touring Baotou, Inner Mongolia, the site of one of China’s largest rare earth deposits. Although rare earths are found across the world, no country has exploited them like China. Beijing recognised the strategic importance of these resources more […]

The tiny Pacific island nation of Niue has come up with a novel plan to protect its vast and pristine territorial waters—it will get sponsors to pay. Under the plan, launched by Niue’s Prime Minister Dalton Tagelagi on Tuesday in New York, individuals or companies can pay $148 to protect 1 square kilometer (about […]

In a birth being celebrated around the world, a baby girl has been delivered healthy, weighing in at 60 pounds. Don’t worry, it’s not a human baby but a critically endangered Sumatran rhino, whose birth “represents hope for a species threatened with extinction,” per CNN. The unnamed female was born Saturday at Way Kambas […]

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Renewable energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Canadian investment firm Brookfield is buying one of the UK’s largest renewable developers, in a boost for the country’s onshore wind industry after recent setbacks. Brookfield will acquire Durham-based Banks Renewables in a deal worth […]