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Renewables champion and Octopus Energy's Greg Jackson revealed that an oil CEO told him the fossil fuel industry is privately preparing for dangerous global temperatures - and six feet of sea level rise - in a powerful keynote speech to launch The Independent's second annual Climate 100 List.

Jackson, founder and CEO of the UK's largest energy supplier, is one of 100 business leaders, environmentalists, scientists, and creatives featured on the 2025 Climate 100 List, following the success of last year's inaugural list. It celebrates leaders on diverse paths with a singular goal: tackling the worsening climate crisis.

The launch took place on Tuesday during the annual New York City Climate Week, which coincides with the gathering of the United Nations General Assembly in the city.

Others on the Climate100 List include British-Nigerian writer Abi Daré, Sioux chef Sean Sherman, actor and activist Jane Fonda, Kenyan-American climate activist Wawa Gatheru, documentarian Sir David Attenborough, and Pope Leo XIV.

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The Independent's second Climate 100 event took place in New York City

'Climate is the blood that bleeds through everything': Author Abi Daré on winning the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize

By Emma Henderson

From world-famous DJ to farming pioneer: how one journey changed Andy Cato's life

By Emma Henderson

Households hit with higher bills in £1bn 'racket' that sees wind farms paid to turn off power

By Alex Ross

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Countries across Asia are counting the cost after one of the strongest storms to hit the region in years battered the coast of southern China before finally weakening as it entered Vietnam on Thursday.

Typhoon Ragasa had already killed 11 people in the Philippines and another 14 in Taiwan before it brought megacities including Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou to a standstill this week.

The storm, the world's strongest so far this year, made landfall near Yangjiang in southern China at around 5pm local time on Wednesday with sustained winds of 144kmph, before weakening to a tropical depression as it slowly headed west into Vietnam.

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In Burundi's financial capital, the homes of its 1.2m residents are being swallowed by flooding.

The city sits on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Africa's largest lake. Its water levels have risen four metres in just 20 years. There are fears it could rise another two metres over the next decade.

Last year 100,000 people were displaced. Now, with thousands living in refugee camps, Burundi is struggling to cope.

Sam Kiley travelled to Bujumbura to meet the people who have been washed away.

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CLIMATE IN NUMBERS

£1bn

That's the cost of turning wind turbines off in 2025.

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