Bloomberg The cost of pollution in the European Union (EU) rose to new highs after a report by the bloc’s market watchdog dismissed concerns by some governments over abuse and the role of speculative investors in emissions trading. Benchmark carbon permits rose as much as 1% percent to a record 69.77 euros a ton on ICE Endex, extending gains to ...

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi isn’t used to backing down. So his move to repeal three contentious laws that have drawn tens of thousands of farmers to protest at the borders of the capital for over a year is significant. It’s easily the most serious political setback of his seven years in power. Almost half of India’s 1.4 billion people ...

There’s been a lot of discussion, since the Facebook Files were leaked, about how to repair the social media platform. A lot of this talk centres on how algorithms manipulate the feeds, and how we users are profiled and fed exactly the content that arouses us to fits of hatred, conspiracy theorising, and even domestic terrorism. This is true and ...