Lara Williams

LARA WILLIAMS IS A SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR FOR BLOOMBERG OPINION. @LARARHIANNONW

The influences behind Jane Austen's Persuasion show how humans can be wonderfully creative when faced with tough times.

Bankers get a dire warning from Jane Austen’s final book

Projected global warming by 2100 is now at 2.6 deg C, lower than the 3.6 deg C forecast in October 2015.

Emissions are still rising. That doesn’t mean we’re failing

Fifa president Gianni Infantino (right) seems to have invented the Fifa Peace Prize as part of a wider effort to ingratiate himself and his organisation with US President Donald Trump. The award was handed out at a glitzy draw event in Washington for the 2026 World Cup.
COMMENTARY

Fifa’s World Cup sycophancy is dirtying the Beautiful Game

Goodall's approach of giving names to the chimpanzees she was studying, rather than the academic method of assigning numbers to them, has enabled us to see them as intelligent, sentient beings with emotions and unique personalities.

Without Jane Goodall, chimps need new champions – us

What Europeans need more than anything is a clear and stable environment so they can plan for the future.

What the EU stands to lose as the continent bakes

There were a host of monumental achievements last year – from the closure of the UK’s last coal-powered electricity plant and the continued rapid growth of renewables to deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (above) falling to a nine-year low in the 12 months to July 2024.

Here’s why I’m optimistic about climate financing

Globally, 6.4 million hectares of forest were lost in 2023, and targets to reduce deforestation were missed in almost all tropical regions, according to the 2024 Forest Declaration Assessment.
THE BOTTOM LINE

Once our primary forests are gone, they’re gone forever

Data shows the European Union saw a record number of potential olive oil fraud cases at the start of the year as prices peaked.

Your olive oil might be unfit for human consumption

Carbon removals seek to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it – ideally permanently underground or in the ocean.

The EU gives carbon traders what they want – more rules

A local resident collects belongings from his destroyed house after a night missile strike in the town of Kramatorsk, in Donetsk region, on August 16, 2022, amid the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine war six months on: Six takeaways