🎧Last week I joined Prashant Rao and Richard Delevan Wicked Problems Climate Tech to discuss, among other things, my reporting from the UAE and climate tech deployment in the Gulf. Listen here👇 news.wickedproblems.uk/p/climateweek-…

🚗 Cazoo in administration — so what went wrong? "The worst timed IPO in history", a $630m debt burden sitting on the stock and a business model many questioned. A piece we wrote last year on the company's woes: sifted.eu/articles/cazoo…

🎟️ NEW: Next Tuesday, we've got a workshop all about how to investigate companies' finances with @siftedeu senior reporter Freya Pratty. We'll cover how to find company records & what to look for, confidentiality, cultivating sources, legalities & more. 🔗 tickettailor.com/events/journor…

For startups, a contract with a Saudi megaproject like Neom's The Line can be game changing. But — behind the dollar signs — human rights concerns over the project mean tough questions for the companies that choose to work with it. More: sifted.eu/articles/europ…

Octopus Energy's relationship with the UAE has grown significantly over the last year. It has signed deals with both TAQA and Masdar and says it could soon have staff based in the country too👇 sifted.eu/articles/octop…

Battery trains! Who knew? Fascinating piece from John Thornhill on the people shipping sunlight ft.com/content/e7baef… via @ft

“Rural Indians have just taught Modi and the stock markets a tough lesson — that millionaires are no measure of a country’s prosperity.’ menaka doshi is spot on here: bloomberg.com/news/newslette…“

My best pal won the European Press Prize !! 😍🥹 Read his great reporting here - inthesetimes.com/article/europe…

🔋Trouble at Northvolt - Shareholder BMW has pulled a billion dollar order - Northvolt’s reassessing the viability of one of its factories - On top of that, there concerns over worker safety after a number of deaths at its Arctic Circle facility sifted.eu/articles/north…

A court in Russia has sentenced Evan Gershkovich, the WSJ reporter arrested last year on absurd espionage charges, to 16 years in high-security prison. Russia rushed through the trial and didn't bother presenting public evidence. It may be a prelude to an exchange. Free Evan!

Octopus Energy has a significant renewable energy portfolio. But, like many suppliers, it still relies on REGO certificates for its electricity tariff: a system which has come in for criticism for not being as green as it first appears. sifted.eu/articles/how-g…

Fair and critical piece on REGOs.

🌱Vertical farming company Infarm declared bankruptcy at the end of last year. Now it's back, focused on growing kosher salad leaves in Canada... though past lives continue to haunt it, with a recent court case naming the old entity. w/ Miriam Partington sifted.eu/articles/new-i…

I've spent the last two years being sued for my reporting. It has been – and I cannot stress this enough – an abject waste of my time. Now, the claim has been dropped, so I wrote something (in the dreaded first-person) about it all via The Bureau of Investigative Journalism thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

A story that includes yacht trips in Dubai, football legend Didier Drogba and $200m that failed to materialise. The bizarre tale of crypto startup #5IRE 🚀 👇 sifted.eu/articles/drogb…

This is such a brilliant piece by Anne Applebaum As she says, the secret wealth and offshore tax havens kleptocrats use to enrich themselves are also a threat to democracy. Why don’t we just shut it all down? on.ft.com/4cLsKoz via @financialtimes

NEW - former Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh accused of accruing more than $110 million via financial crimes involving Optimum –two judicial sources to @reuters. That’s in addition to more than $330 million in the previously uncovered corruption scheme…

🔋Northvolt plans to cut jobs and sell sites as losses pile up A site in Sweden and one in Poland are being cut, while factories in Canada and Germany are still under review. sifted.eu/articles/north…