Heavy downpours since last autumn curb planting and push milling-wheat futures to year-high on Euronext
Move by leaders of rich nations puts them on collision course with China, India and Saudi Arabia after UN talks end in failure
Global insured losses from natural catastrophes exceeded $100bn for fourth consecutive year in 2023
The legislation taking effect next month comes as the state becomes a top solar power
2024’s ranking of intellectual property law firms; the Unified Patent Court’s first year; gender and race-based gaps in patent applications; AI’s ‘double-edged sword’; EU plans for gene-edited crops patent ban and new Standard Essential Patent rules
Towns weigh up their future after climate-fuelled disaster strikes agricultural powerhouse of Rio Grande do Sul
European Commission president’s re-election push puts Green Deal back on table
Climate campaigners targeted bank over fossil fuel funding
New strategy by Greenpeace involves canvassing to establish climate change as leading electoral issue
Can the gas deliver on its promise of clean, green energy? From fixing supply and demand blockages to infrastructure, industry and the spectrum of blue, green and gold hydrogen
Production of the metal is responsible for up to 9 per cent of global CO₂ emissions
Rightwing advances in EU parliament elections will lessen climate ambitions
The latest IEA investment report offers a nuanced look at the global flow of energy spending
Career blocks remain stubbornly in place. Plus: profile of Tina McKenzie, Northern Irish businesswoman; Elaine Bedell on leading the Southbank Centre; graduates and the AI tech boom; when grandma juggles working and childcare; cross-company mentoring
Consumer protection and advertising laws used to pursue civil suit
New titles include billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer on a way of life we can all pursue and a meditative take on nature’s resilience
Prime minister says photovoltaics are threatening nation’s ‘food security’, but farmers disagree
Scottish Power chief executive warns planning delays and skills shortages are holding back green transition
Horticulturalists are dealing with drought but record rain and sheer unpredictability are challenges too
Move driven by expectations of a newly elected Labour government adopting stricter approach to big polluters
Lord John Browne offers implicit endorsement of Labour party’s policy on fossil fuels
This election is a chance to put substance behind the empty rhetoric that too often passes for climate policy
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has backtracked on parts of the bloc’s climate agenda
The amount of energy used by data centres is staggering
The US central bank increasingly needs an understanding of meteorology to see where the economy is headed
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