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French data company CDC Biodiversite will this week launch a free version of its biodiversity footprinting tool Global Biodiversity Score (GBS) with limited features.

The Portuguese Ministry of Environment and Climate Action has established a technical committee to evaluate carbon methodologies and the performance of the voluntary carbon market (VCM), according to a decree published Monday in the Official Gazette.

The Office of the Ombudsman in Colombia has issued an official notice about several sectors, including REDD+ voluntary carbon projects, warning of the risk of violations of Indigenous and local community rights, as well as extortion by illegal armed groups.

Growing compliance demand driven by the Safeguard Mechanism and corporates looking to meet ESG requirements is creating a ‘positive narrative’ on carbon pricing and carbon markets in Australia, although ongoing risks and challenges remain, according to a report published Wednesday.

A carbon removals developer has secured 26 million Norwegian krone (£1.9 mln) in funding to study the feasibility of building a direct air capture and storage plant in Norway, it announced on Tuesday.

A UK-France biodiversity credits panel has published a more detailed version of its call for views on biodiversity credits, as the initiative prepares to launch an Indigenous-focused consultation.

A UN agency and a Brazilian NGO on Tuesday announced a new initiative to promote payment for environmental services (PES) for deforestation-free supply chains, focusing on the Atlantic Forest biome in Brazil – a region critically endangered by deforestation activities.

Switzerland’s failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions violates its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Strasbourg's Grand Chamber ruled on Tuesday in a landmark decision.

Deforestation in Colombia's Amazon region is expected to climb again this year, as the first quarter of 2024 showed a 40% surge compared to the same period in 2023, the minister of environment said on Monday.

Biggest grants go to Fortescue for a green iron project, and Curtin University to pursue a technology that could export hydrogen as a powder.

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Court finds in favour of group of older Swiss women who claimed weak policies put them at greater risk of death from heatwaves

Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled.

In a landmark decision on one of three major climate cases, the first such rulings by an international court, the ECHR raised judicial pressure on governments to stop filling the atmosphere with gases that make extreme weather more violent.

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European Parliament members on Tuesday recommended that the EU make a concerted withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), an international trade agreement, which they accuse of contradicting the Paris Agreement's goal to limit global warming to 1.5C.

Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled.

In a landmark decision on one of three major climate cases, the first such ruling by an international court, the ECHR raised judicial pressure on governments to stop filling the atmosphere with gases that make extreme weather more violent.

The court’s top bench ruled that Switzerland had violated the rights of a group of older Swiss women to family life

• Human rights violated by inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case

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European carbon prices rose for a fourth day on Tuesday morning as a robust reaction to a slightly below-average auction drove the market to a 10-day high amid marginally firmer energy prices.

The Tanzanian government has issued a letter of authorisation (LOA) to a carbon project developer, meaning credits generated from its cookstove activities in the country can apply corresponding adjustments when sold on the international market.

Florida is on track to ban cell-cultivated meat while three others float it – but experts say the reasoning has little to do with safety, ethical or environmental questions

At a press conference in February, the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, told a room full of reporters: “We’re not going to do that fake meat. That doesn’t work.” He’d been discussing legislation under debate in the statehouse that would ban cell-cultivated meat – an emerging technique that, instead of slaughtering animals for consumption, grows meat in a lab using a small sample of animal cells.

A few weeks later, a Republican member of the Florida legislature – and cattle rancher – Dean Black took to the House floor, saying, “Cultured meat is not meat … it is made by man, real meat is made by God Himself … If you really want to try the nitrogen-based protein paste, go to California.”

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Landfill trash is the third-largest source of human-caused methane pollution in the US. To fight global heating, curb waste

An elusive climate menace is now easier than ever to see. In early March, a rocket launched into the sky with a satellite that spots methane emissions from space. MethaneSAT joined more than a dozen similar satellites now in orbit, scanning the Earth for pollution and feeding that information back to scientists, policymakers, industry, and the public.

What story does the data tell? One of methane on the rise, or one of collective efforts that avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis? Slashing methane is the most efficient way to slow global warming in our lifetimes. We have the chance – and the obligation – to do so.

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Germany, France and Italy spelt out their industrial policy priorities for the next European Commission on Monday, with a heavy emphasis on measures to defend the EU’s clean tech sector against US protectionism and Chinese dumping.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a group of Swiss women won their climate case.

The European Parliament is set to approve a widely welcomed law this week designed to reduce potent methane emissions from the EU’s energy sector — although some worry it doesn’t go far enough to plug pollution from vast abandoned coal mines.