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Oil major BP purchased offset credits from two of the largest projects in the WCI cap-and-trade programme, a company official confirmed last week, but data suggests the fuel supplier is reselling many of those Alaska-sourced units on the secondary market.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Inc. (“RGGI, Inc.”) seeks to hire a Program Associate to be based in New York City.

Sir David Attenborough has urged world leaders to treat the natural world with respect. During an interview by Prince William at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, he was asked why those in key positions had taken so long to address climate change. The 92-year-old broadcaster said the connection between the natural world and urban societies had been ‘remote and widening’ since the industrial revolution. Humans did not realise the effect their actions have on the global ecosystem, he said, but it was ‘difficult to overstate’ the urgency of the environmental crisis.

David Attenborough and Prince William take world leaders to task on environment

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European carbon prices resumed their recent rally on Tuesday, climbing by as much as 3.6% to a three-week high above €25.

Dumping your closet debris on a charity shop just means giving volunteers the cost of sorting out your landfill. Jenni Downes, Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Thinktank says not enough is being done to cut coal burning and end fossil fuel subsidies

Removing coal from the global energy mix is taking too long, too many forests are still being destroyed, and fossil fuel subsidies are ongoing despite their distorting effect on the market, a study has found.

There has also been insufficient progress in agriculture to stop harmful practices that increase carbon dioxide production, and heavy industry is not doing enough to use energy more efficiently, according to analysis carried out by the World Resources Institute thinktank.

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Total of 72% polled now say global warming is personally important to them, Yale said, as 73% accept it is happening

Americans’ concerns about climate change have surged to record levels, new polling shows, following a year marked by devastating storms, wildfires and increasingly dire warnings from scientists.

Related: Greenland's ice melting faster than scientists previously thought – study

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Researchers involved in monitoring fracking in the UK say the limits on seismic activity are "too conservative".

The European Commission is planning to host a conference on international carbon trade this spring to help clinch a deal on rules for Article 6 of the UN Paris Agreement after recent talks fell apart.

Davos 2019: broadcaster tells prince that humans have power to exterminate whole ecosystems ‘without even noticing’

Sir David Attenborough has warned that humankind has the power to exterminate whole ecosystems “without even noticing”, and urged world leaders to treat the natural world with respect, during an interview with Prince William in Davos.

Prince William also took world leaders to task at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, asking Attenborough why those in key positions have “taken so long” to address climate change.

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Politicians face repeated calls to reduce emissions and stop land clearing, but there isn’t much public pressure for better biosecurity

In November 2018 the owners of the huge Ocean Monarch oil rig, towed into Hobart waters for maintenance, refused to let the Tasmanian Environment Protection Authority (EPA) inspect the hull for marine pests. One of the EPA’s concerns was a foreign sea squirt that had appeared in Western Australia in 2010, invading seagrass meadows in Perth’s Swan River.

In January the rig’s owners, Diamond Offshore, said they would inspect the rig themselves and submit their findings. The EPA’s impotence in this incident prompted calls for reform of biosecurity laws.

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‘If you think this is bad,’ say locals of recent mass fish kills, ‘just wait until the Menindee Lakes project goes ahead’

On the banks of the Darling, near Menindee, two grown men are fighting back tears.

It’s a week on from the fish kill that saw hundreds of thousands of fish die near their small town, including Murray cod that were estimated to be about 70 years old. These fish had survived the millennium drought of the late 1990s. Yet here they are dying.

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Prince William interviews Sir David Attenborough at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Lorries, demonstrators and police drive up air pollution in Kirby Misperton, study finds

A shale gas company’s lorries, police vehicles and protesters’ wood fires have combined to drive up air pollution levels near a gas well in the north of England, despite fracking failing to get started at the site.

Operations at the Kirby Misperton well in North Yorkshire have been delayed after the operator Third Energy ran into financial problems, but the project’s local pollution impact has been revealed by government-backed research.

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Greenland went through an "unprecedented" period of ice loss in the last two decades.

Automated software is now scouring social media posts looking for evidence of ape trafficking.

China's public banks and corporations have become world leaders in funding coal-fired power plants, providing financing for over a quarter of the world's new facilities while domestic limits often prevent such investments at home, a report has found.

Something is happening in the “Zero-Deforestation Supply Chain Movement,” which is a key component of the global effort to end climate change, and this week’s Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) could provide the impetus for moving beyond lateral drift into fervent activity.

The Duke of Cambridge will put questions to the naturalist at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday.

New Zealand carbon allowances have traded in a narrow 22-cent range for the past month with most traders away from their desks and little news to drive prices.