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Mark Carney

October 2023

  • Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, delivers a speech to party delegates on day two of the Labour party conference.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney endorses Rachel Reeves – as it happened

    Carney says ‘it is beyond time we put her energy and ideas into action’ in video shown to Labour conference after shadow chancellor’s speech
  • The shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, makes her speech during the Labour party conference in Liverpool.

    Mark Carney is ace in Rachel Reeves’ already strong hand against Tories

    Ex-Bank of England governor’s backing for shadow chancellor shows how far Labour’s economic message has travelled
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    Firms will hesitate to invest in UK after Sunak’s climate U-turns, says Mark Carney

    Former Bank of England governor says businesses prioritise countries with clean power and consistent strategies

June 2023

  • Mark Carney

    Brexit to blame for rising inflation, says former Bank of England governor

    Mark Carney says Bank’s negative predictions about consequences of leaving EU ‘proven to be the case’

January 2023

  • Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell attends a press conference in Washington DC

    Project Syndicate economists
    The climate crisis threatens economic stability – why are central bankers divided?

    Howard Davies
    Jerome Powell and Mervyn King reject taking on climate policy, while Mark Carney and Christine Lagarde say action is vital

November 2022

  • National march to rejoin the EU in London

    The Guardian view on Brexit and the economy: time to face facts

  • Waterloo station in London.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK rail strikes suspended as RMT says employers ‘seeing sense’ and talks intensifying – as it happened

October 2022

  • Mark Carney

    Mark Carney denies big banks threatened to quit climate finance group

    Former BoE governor admits his net zero alliance weakened veto on coal investment because of ‘antitrust concerns’

September 2022

  • Union flag flies over The Bank of England in central London

    ‘I’d never seen anything like it’: how market turmoil sparked a pension fund selloff

  • Mark Carney said Liz Truss and the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, appeared to be working at ‘cross purposes’ with the Bank of England.

    Mark Carney accuses Truss government of undermining Bank of England

June 2022

  • Ratcliffe-on-Soar, an operational coal-fired power station, Nottinghamshire

    Bank group accused of exploiting loopholes and ‘greenwashing’ in climate pledge

    ‘Net zero’ global alliance of financial institutions, begun at Cop26, can still invest in coal and other fossil fuels

May 2022

  • The former Bank of England governor Mark Carney said the Russian invasion should spark further investments in green energy.

    Do not use Ukraine war to defer climate goals, warns Mark Carney

    UN climate envoy says world cannot afford to derail progress because of energy crisis linked to invasion

November 2021

  • Rishi Sunak holds up a Green Box during the UN Climate Change Conference

    Science Weekly
    Cop26: can capitalism actually go green?

    The Science Weekly podcast is in Glasgow, where we are bringing listeners daily episodes from Cop26. Each morning you will hear from one of the Guardian’s award-winning environment team. Today, host Madeleine Finlay talks to the Guardian’s biodiversity and environment reporter, Patrick Greenfield, and shadow Cop26 president Ed Miliband about the announcements from finance day

August 2021

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Rise of cryptocurrencies can be traced to Nixon abandoning gold in 1971

    Larry Elliott
    The decision has led to volatile financial markets, geopolitical tension and inflated asset prices

July 2021

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Best-paid gig in town rains down £12m a head – but are the non-exes still independent?

    Nils Pratley
    Yet more millionaires in the City thanks to an IPO may be normal, but Bridgepoint’s signing-on bonuses jar with scrutiny duty
  • Mark Carney

    Regulate business to tackle climate crisis, urges Mark Carney

    Former Bank chief says governments must act as free markets will not reduce emissions alone
  • Campaigners criticise carbon credits based on tree planting, because trees take decades to grow, while emissions cause global heating straight away.

    Businesses and experts reveal plans for carbon offset regulator

    Greenpeace attacks scheme as ‘get out of jail free’ card for companies who want to greenwash emissions

April 2021

  • Barclays and HSBS bank premises, London

    Leading finance firms sign up to Mark Carney forum on low-carbon investment

    Barclays, HSBC and Axa among 160 firms in global alliance to hasten transition to net zero economies

March 2021

  • Mark Carney and Rishi Sunak in Downing Street before last year’s budget.

    Observer book of the week
    Value(s) by Mark Carney review – call for a new kind of economics

  • Mark Carney in a garden

    Mark Carney: ‘I didn’t want the Bank of England job. But I was asked to fix something’

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