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The EU has provisionally agreed on proposals to regulate microplastic pollution that are expected to reduce plastic pellet losses by up to 74% in a bid to preserve biodiversity.

Members of the European Parliament's environment and economic affairs committees raised numerous questions during a hearing Tuesday on the EU's sustainable finance taxonomy, highlighting the risk of greenwashing in the reporting simplifications proposed by the European Commission.

A New York-based carbon management platform announced Wednesday that it has hired a former US DOE official to serve as its head of policy.

Metuktire, in the Indigenous Capoto-Jarina territory in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, is a pocket of resistance against mining, which has devastated the landscape in nearby areas. The AFP photographer Pablo Porciúncula travelled deep into Mato Grosso state to see how it has staved off deforestation and continued to honour its traditional ways of life – while also facing the threats of miners and the climate crisis

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Debate on the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme for road transport and heating fuels (ETS2) is picking up in the Council of EU member states, where at least 10 countries have called for stronger safeguards against rising prices, according to the Polish presidency.

Nepal has released a draft version of its third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), outlining a set of climate targets that up ambition levels as the country pursues net zero greenhouse gas emissions five years earlier by 2045.

Landmark DC-coupled solar and battery project in Victoria's Gippsland region reaches financial close and begins construction.

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Illegal gold mining led to the destruction of 4,219 hectares of forest across four Indigenous territories in the Amazon region over 2023-24, according to a report by Greenpeace.

JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has raised $1.5 billion for the Campbell Global's Forest & Climate Solutions Fund II, surpassing its original fundraising target.

European carbon prices dropped for a sixth consecutive day, nearing the recent six-month low before steadying, as the turmoil in financial and commodity markets continued following US President Donald Trump's increase in tariffs on China to 104%, while energy markets also continued to weaken.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents

Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, an investigation by SourceMaterial and the Guardian has found.

With Donald Trump pledging to support them, the three technology giants are planning hundreds of datacentres in the US and across the globe, with a potentially huge impact on populations already living with water scarcity.

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The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the IFRS Foundation have announced a formal commitment to deepening their work towards enabling nature-related disclosures.

The US is threatening "reciprocal measures" against states that agree to impose a carbon tax on shipping emissions, throwing into disarray crucial UN talks underway in London this week.

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) on Wednesday issued a call for expressions of interest (EoI) from project developers in Cote d’Ivoire and Nepal to build a pipeline of mitigation activities that could generate carbon credits under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Decades of efforts in ecosystem restoration have significantly improved China's capacity to absorb CO2 through soil, according to a recent paper.

Carbon project proponents have broadly welcomed Papua New Guinea’s move to begin lifting the suspension of its moratorium on new voluntary REDD+ projects, though it is still unclear exactly when it will happen.

High-rated voluntary carbon credits commanded a record-high price premium in March, averaging 62% higher than the lowest scored units, according to a data update from a rating agency.

A UK oil and gas company has completed the country's first test of injecting CO2 into a carbon capture and storage site under the North Sea, it announced on Wednesday.

The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is likely to see a substantial rise in prices in the early 2030s as excess supply clears, before embarking on a steep upward growth curve to 2040, according to analysts that have identified untapped demand potential among industrials and emerging economies.

New Zealand is increasingly turning to wood pellets to reduce emissions and shift away from coal, driven by regulations and company climate commitments, according to experts and industry.