Attracta Mooney
@attractamooney.bsky.social
Climate correspondent at the Financial Times. Used to write about the investment industry. Irish.
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Coalition rallies for COP30 ‘road map’ on how to cut oil and gas-In the corridors of the COP30 summit, work was being done to get the backing of more countries for a road map proposal, several people said.
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Coalition rallies for COP30 ‘road map’ on how to cut oil and gas
Solar and wind compete with oil and gas to meet rising energy demand
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November 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Coalition rallies for COP30 ‘road map’ on how to cut oil and gas-In the corridors of the COP30 summit, work was being done to get the backing of more countries for a road map proposal, several people said.
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A nascent solar revolution is taking hold in Africa’s largest oil-producing nation, where even the Nigerian presidential residence is looking to the sun for a constant power supply on.ft.com/3INZqVG
October 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A nascent solar revolution is taking hold in Africa’s largest oil-producing nation, where even the Nigerian presidential residence is looking to the sun for a constant power supply on.ft.com/3INZqVG
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PFZW has pulled €14bn equity mandate from BlackRock and €15bn from LGIM as it pivots to active strategies after a sustainability review. PFZW said it had “become more difficult to align with American managers when it comes to voting”. w/ @attractamooney.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e8ec...
Top pension fund pulls €14bn from BlackRock in sustainability pivot
PFZW dumps world’s largest asset manager as European managers increasingly diverge with US over ESG
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September 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
PFZW has pulled €14bn equity mandate from BlackRock and €15bn from LGIM as it pivots to active strategies after a sustainability review. PFZW said it had “become more difficult to align with American managers when it comes to voting”. w/ @attractamooney.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e8ec...
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
London trains firefighters for higher risk of summer wildfires
Driest spring in more than a century creates conditions for blazes, fire chief warns
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July 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
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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
www.ft.com/content/6390...
#dataviz #gistribe
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report
www.ft.com/content/6390...
#dataviz #gistribe
July 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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
www.ft.com/content/6390...
#dataviz #gistribe
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report
www.ft.com/content/6390...
#dataviz #gistribe
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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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US states send delegates to EU for advice on green policy
Carbon pricing in focus ahead of introduction of Europe’s proposed levy
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June 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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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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
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
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June 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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
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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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#dataviz
The animation shows smoke from the Candian wildfires crossing the Atlantic to Europe.
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's article on 'zombie fires'
www.ft.com/content/f87c...
#dataviz
June 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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'
www.ft.com/content/f87c...
#dataviz
The animation shows smoke from the Candian wildfires crossing the Atlantic to Europe.
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's article on 'zombie fires'
www.ft.com/content/f87c...
#dataviz
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
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
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May 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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": here's my piece on how many big western cities are at risk of climate-related disasters on.ft.com/3EIBtwZ
‘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
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May 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"Sitting ducks": here's my piece on how many big western cities are at risk of climate-related disasters on.ft.com/3EIBtwZ
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
‘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
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April 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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
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
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
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March 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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
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More than half of world’s most populated cities are getting wetter, research finds
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#Geography #ClimateChange
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#Geography #ClimateChange
March 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
More than half of world’s most populated cities are getting wetter, research finds
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#Geography #ClimateChange
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#Geography #ClimateChange
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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
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report on the latest climate bulletin from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/e389...
#dataviz
March 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report on the latest climate bulletin from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/e389...
#dataviz
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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
www.ft.com/content/12db...
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report
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February 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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
www.ft.com/content/12db...
Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's report
www.ft.com/content/12db...
“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
February 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
“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
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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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Handful of countries ready to submit plans to tackle global warming in the next decade.
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February 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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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Handful of countries ready to submit plans to tackle global warming in the next decade.
@attractamooney.bsky.social @alicemhancock.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/4hmFLrH
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...
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January 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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...
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Javier Milei eyes exit from Paris climate deal
https://www.ft.com/content/4957bc54-5b7b-496d-8c98-ba42ff508e85
https://www.ft.com/content/4957bc54-5b7b-496d-8c98-ba42ff508e85
Javier Milei eyes exit from Paris climate deal
Argentine government explores proposal to follow US in quitting landmark agreement
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January 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Javier Milei eyes exit from Paris climate deal
https://www.ft.com/content/4957bc54-5b7b-496d-8c98-ba42ff508e85
https://www.ft.com/content/4957bc54-5b7b-496d-8c98-ba42ff508e85
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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-...
January 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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-...
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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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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
on.ft.com/3PwbnPC
January 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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
on.ft.com/3PwbnPC
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
on.ft.com/3PwbnPC
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Recently joined BlueSky? Here's a starter pack of FT journalists to follow go.bsky.app/GhSgfrR
December 2, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Recently joined BlueSky? Here's a starter pack of FT journalists to follow go.bsky.app/GhSgfrR
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)
Good reminder that many people don’t understand flooding, or how climate change is exasperating it (and explains all the paving over of gardens)
November 27, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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)
Good reminder that many people don’t understand flooding, or how climate change is exasperating it (and explains all the paving over of gardens)
Finally back to the real world, but here’s how the $300bn COP29 climate finance deal unfolded
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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
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November 25, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Finally back to the real world, but here’s how the $300bn COP29 climate finance deal unfolded
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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
November 12, 2024 at 7:01 AM
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