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The Finance for Biodiversity Foundation (FfB) launched the second edition of its nature target-setting framework for asset managers and owners on Wednesday with three target types.

A French nature tech startup has secured undisclosed funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a biodiversity monitoring tool for potential use in nature-related disclosures and the biodiversity credit market, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Restoring key EU rivers can help achieve 10% of the bloc's biodiversity targets under the Nature Restoration Law while strengthening countries' resilience to the climate crisis, a new report has shown.

Biodiversity credits worth over $14 million in total across two projects could be sold within the next three months to multiple-buyer groups, according to the head of credit developer RePlanet.

EUAs were once again little changed at midday, after prices see-sawed in a well-defined range amid periodic attempts to move lower, while energy markets diverged due to differing fundamental influences, and the UKA market took a pause as the country voted in a general election.

Study that researchers say highlights chemicals’ ubiquity also shows PFAS association with seafood and red meat

New research aimed at identifying foods that contain higher levels of PFAS found people who eat more white rice, coffee, eggs and seafood typically showed more of the toxic chemicals in their plasma and breast milk.

The study checked samples from 3,000 pregnant mothers, and is among the first research to suggest coffee and white rice may be contaminated at higher rates than other foods. It also identified an association between red meat consumption and levels of PFOS, one of the most common and dangerous PFAS compounds.

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A white-tailed eagle that broke its wing has taken to the skies after its parents nursed it back to health.

A white-tailed eagle that broke its wing has taken to the skies after its parents nursed it back to health.

The EU will continue to endure markedly higher energy prices than the US and China even in a scenario where it meets its climate goals, due to its continued reliance on imports and growing demand, said the bloc’s business lobby.

A voluntary carbon crediting platform for engineered removals has unveiled plans to update its service fee structure later this year to make market entry more accessible for carbon removal suppliers, it said this week.

Ten individuals are being investigated by the Italian authorities for submitting manipulated CO2 emissions data while administering Italy's largest steel factory, which then affected the facility's EU carbon permit compliance requirements, according to multiple national media sources.

Japan is considering government procurement of direct air capture (DAC) carbon credits in a bid to boost demand, while several relevant methodologies under the domestic offset programme are being developed.

The European Commission will take all the necessary steps to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology available to large industrial emitters and remove barriers to its development, a senior EU official said on Wednesday.

Australia has announced updates to national greenhouse gas reporting rules that a climate think tank warns will let coal companies dramatically under-report their emissions and undeservedly be issued Safeguard Mechanism Credits (SMCs).

The European Commission wants to speed up approval of emerging green and low-carbon technologies, saying it will promote faster permitting for those identified as the most promising by its new Innovation Centre for Industrial Transformation (INCITE) in Seville.

Many companies believe mandatory offsetting requirements would be critical for the biodiversity market to scale, according to submissions to the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits’ (IAPB) second round of consultation with market participants.

Speculation and land banking by the palm oil industry is a major contributor to Indonesia’s massive historical deforestation rates, according to a study published this week.

The government of Gambia has introduced a draft carbon trading bill in an effort to regulate project activity and credit transactions in the emerging market.

From wildflower retreats and Novid rooms to locking yourself in a disabled toilet, hospital staff reveal where they go when they need a moment’s peace

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It is no coincidence that ever more extreme politics has come at a time of ever more extreme weather

A disrupted climate and diminished natural world are widening the dividing lines of ideological debate. Left unchecked, this will undermine democracy.

That may not be the first thing on the minds of British voters as they go to the polls on Thursday. It is probably also a minority view in the rest of Europe or the US, where people are too much in the thick of a polycrisis to consider anything outside politics and economics as usual. But from a distance, in my case from the Amazon rainforest, there is a very different explanation for the tremors being witnessed in the old world and the new.

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