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Pilita Clark

Financial Times

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A contentious climate fix gathers pace

Carbon capture and storage is making unexpected breakthroughs

04.03.2026 10

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Year in a word: Tipping point

Global warming risks setting off a series of self-propelling shifts across the natural world

29.12.2025 10

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The hard politics of climate overshoot

Net zero is difficult enough — but an age of net negative emissions goals would be far tougher

19.12.2025 20

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The wins of COP that nobody noticed

Latest annual climate summit revealed changes on the ground are starting to outpace the UN talks themselves

03.12.2025 20

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Brazil delivers a climate COP like no other

The event saw a shift away from showy pledges to tackling the real world complexities of cutting emissions

22.11.2025 20

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Cheaper, greener power is on the way

As long as anti-net zero populists don’t throttle it in the cradle

30.10.2025 10

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Memo to women: get ready to work for free again

The gender pay gap is tediously persistent and worse than we thought

15.09.2025 10

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Good COP, worse COP

A clamour to rethink global climate policy is exactly what we need

20.08.2025 10

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UN plastics treaty is being hampered by climate obstruction tactics

Conflicting interests are coming to a head as countries attempt to end the scourge of pollution

13.08.2025 10

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How hopeful can we be about AI climate tech?

Results that look great in a lab sometimes struggle in real life

03.07.2025 10

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Passengers flying cattle class need caviar too

Spare a thought for those of us stewing in ever more unpleasant juices at the back

07.06.2025 10

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Why the ECB is telling staff it’s time to move

Central bank wants employees to swap roles at a faster pace

04.05.2025 20

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It’s a WhatsApp world at work now

And that’s not always a good thing

30.03.2025 30

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Gas, not net zero, has driven up UK power bills

Britain has been unhelpfully exposed to international price shocks

19.03.2025 20

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Who’s afraid of the big, bad sabbatical?

Not as many hard-charging banks as you might think

23.02.2025 10

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The great climate disconnect

New attempts to prolong the fossil fuel era have come at precisely the wrong time

12.02.2025 20

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Year in a word: Greenlash

The seemingly unrelenting rise of populism has spurred a retreat from environmental targets

28.12.2024 10

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