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The European court of human rights could this week rule that governments have to protect people from climate change, reports the Daily Telegraph.

A frontpage story in the FT reports that Elon Musk’s Tesla and Chinese rival BYD have both reported sharp falls in electrci vehicle sales.

Extinction Rebellion protesters have been arrested after gaining access to a series of London office buildings including the Walkie Talkie as they held demonstrations against insurance companies that cover the fossil fuel industry.

China’s property crisis deepened as Moody’s withdrew a flurry of credit ratings from key companies.

The FTSE 100 jumped after a stronger-than-expected rise in US wholesale prices pushed up the value of the dollar.

Germany has been forced to sell off some of its stake in package deliverer DHL as it struggles to improve the country’s rail network amid a budget crisis.

The Government will have toput more taxpayer cash in and guarantee the debt. Sizewell C was also likely to be put on ice unless British ministers came up with a big extra dollop of taxpayers’ money. A series of cost overruns and delays are undermining the UK’s nuclear power revival Jonathan Leake, 28 January 2024  For…

SIR – Matt Oliver and Jonathan Leake report that Labour plans to triple solar panel “farms” to cover up to 400,000 acres of farmland by 2030 (Business, January 14). This scheme, which will destroy vast areas of arable land (encouraging us to import food) and landscapes will be called “greening” and “saving the planet”. Meanwhile, a vast solar panel installation in America has recently been wrecked by a hailstorm. And the panels will no doubt be fr...