What we learned this week

One in five cars bought in the UK in November was battery electric, the highest proportion so far. Add plug-in hybrids and you’re looking at 27.7% of the market.

As the World Cup comes to a close, a couple of related links. Here’s the Scientific American on FIFA’s carbon neutral claims: “FIFA’s slippery stance symbolizes the all-too-common misleading practices that many organizations, companies and governments use to hoodwink people into thinking they are addressing climate change while inst...