Attracta Mooney

London trains firefighters for higher risk of summer wildfires Driest spring in more than a century creates conditions for blazes, fire chief warns

Last month, I went to see @londonfirebrigade.bsky.social's new wildfire fighting equipment at Wanstead Flats, a large area of open grassland. The firefighters warned of a big risk of vegetation blazes this year, because of how dry and hot it's been. Today Wanstead Flats was on fire on.ft.com/4kBKff3

NEW: This week's climate graphic is on the European heatwave which has affected millions across the continent and sparked wildfires in Greece and Turkey causing 1,500 people to evacuate their homes in Crete

Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report
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US states send delegates to EU for advice on green policy Carbon pricing in focus ahead of introduction of Europe’s proposed levy

Unexpected: US states are visiting Brussels to get advice on climate policy despite President Trump famously calling climate change a "hoax".

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Banks boosted fossil fuel finance by more than a fifth in 2024, report says [FREE TO READ] US banks and Barclays each increased sector lending and underwriting by more than $10bn

For the past few years, fossil fuel financing by the world's top banks had been fallen. That all changed in 2025, when global banks led by JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America boosted fossil fuel financing by more than one-fifth on.ft.com/3Ttdfua

Excellent work by our talented colleague @gakuito.bsky.social‬ from @nikkei.com on secondment with our team.

The animation shows smoke from the Candian wildfires crossing the Atlantic to Europe.

Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's article on 'zombie fires'
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Glacier gets Himalayan funeral as thousands of bodies of ice ‘die’ [FREE TO READ] Scientists warn of a rapid acceleration in the loss of land glaciers, compounding climate change

Earlier this week, a granite memorial was erected at the base of the rapidly melting Yala glacier in Nepal. The message to future readers says: “We know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.” on.ft.com/3SD6XI0

‘Sitting ducks’: the cities most vulnerable to climate disasters [FREE TO READ] Extreme weather means wildfires and flooding are becoming more likely, posing a risk to urban areas around the world

"Sitting ducks": here's my piece on how many big western cities are at risk of climate-related disasters on.ft.com/3EIBtwZ

I've never heard of this group - thanks very much for putting it on my radar

‘We’ve woken up’: the older women leading the fight against climate change [FREE TO READ] Retirees are playing an increasingly visible role in environmental protests

For retired GP Hilary Farey, the Pope’s 2015 missive — where he called for urgent action to save the planet from environmental ruin — was a “big wake-up call”. She is one of a growing band of older women leading the fight against climate change on.ft.com/3Gk25EU

Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere reach 800,000-year high [FREE TO READ] Signs of human-induced climate change reached ‘new heights’ last year, say UN scientists

There's still uncertainty around this, but I was really struck by the WMO estimating that the long-term temperature rise is 1.34-1.41C above the pre-industrial level. It was only in 2021 that the IPCC said the world had warmed by 1.1C (based on years to 2020) on.ft.com/4hjSzhR

More than half of world’s most populated cities are getting wetter, research finds
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NEW: Animation showing a collapse of the polar vortex bringing unseasonal cold to northern Europe and Eurasia.

Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report on the latest climate bulletin from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/e389...

#dataviz

NEW: This week's climate graphic looks at global glacier mass loss. ~273 gigatonnes of ice has been lost each year since 2000, enough water for the world's population for 30 years.

Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report
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“Astonishing and, frankly terrifying” - hottest Jan on record shocks scientist as emerging La Niña fails to dampen record temperature on.ft.com/3WQI51X with @janatausch.bsky.social

Most big polluters to miss UN deadline for 2035 climate targets

Handful of countries ready to submit plans to tackle global warming in the next decade.
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Engine No. 1, the hedge fund that bested ExxonMobil in a fight over its approach to climate change, is teaming up with the supermajor’s rival Chevron to build fossil fuel plants to meet soaring artificial intelligence-driven power demand. www.ft.com/content/ac6f...

Javier Milei eyes exit from Paris climate deal Argentine government explores proposal to follow US in quitting landmark agreement

Javier Milei eyes exit from Paris climate deal

https://www.ft.com/content/4957bc54-5b7b-496d-8c98-ba42ff508e85

NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...

Boxplot chart showing distribution of average daily surface air temperatures compared with pre-industrial average, by year, degrees Celsius. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C

2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C above pre-industrial levels

2015 to 2024 were the 10 warmest years on record

while this year is expected to be cooler, partly because of the diminished el niño impact, it will likely still rank among the 3 hottest

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Overheard on the platform this morning as trains were delayed and cancelled because of flooding: “There isn’t a river nearby, so how is there flooding?”

Good reminder that many people don’t understand flooding, or how climate change is exasperating it (and explains all the paving over of gardens)

Frantic diplomacy rescued fraught UN climate deal from collapse Rush to seal $300bn finance agreement at COP29 after walkouts and a late holdout by India

Finally back to the real world, but here’s how the $300bn COP29 climate finance deal unfolded

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Missing me too I think please

How oil and gas companies disguise their methane emissions. Free to read, by Attracta Mooney and @janatausch.bsky.social @data.ft.com on.ft.com/3CxKWp8