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The global ocean economy could decline by 20% below 2020 levels by mid-century due to multiple threats, including climate change and biodiversity loss, according to the OECD.

Investments in activities harmful to nature are significantly outsizing nature-positive ones globally, with high-income countries performing better domestically but falling short of supporting environmental efforts abroad, a study has shown.

A new generation of European trains could reignite continental momentum for sustainability, just as the EU's carbon pricing is set to expand into road transport and the bloc's policy evolves.

The adoption of carbon compliance markets is accelerating around the world amid the impact of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), despite the US rolling back on climate policies after the election of President Donald Trump, the IETA conference heard Wednesday.

The UK has announced it is launching a Nature Market Accelerator to stimulate green financing for activities that boost biodiversity, ranging from biodiversity net gain (BNG) to voluntary carbon markets.

European carbon was little changed on Wednesday morning as commodity markets slowed to a crawl in anticipation of the announcement of new US tariffs later in the day, while weekly position data showed a 10% decrease in speculative length but large drops in futures holdings among compliance companies.

A major energy company in Japan will invest in a US-based renewable energy project to grow its global green methanol portfolio while creating carbon removal credits.

A Tokyo-based carbon credit due diligence provider has teamed with a non-profit to develop a monitoring scheme for reforestation projects in Brazil, it announced Wednesday.

A Germany-headquartered multinational is receiving the first 250,000 carbon credits from a sustainable rice farming project in India, it announced Wednesday.

The European Commission on Tuesday released draft implementing rules for the monitoring, reporting and verification of fuels eligible under the UN’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).

The emerging market for carbon credit insurance faces several barriers, with slow adoption and cost concerns holding back its wider uptake, according to industry experts.

Finnish energy company shutters its last coal-fired power plant, ending coal use in the capital Helsinki and putting Finland on the brink of eliminating coal entirely.

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Local council is taking the fight against contested wind projects to the roads, saying it has no jurisdiction to approve upgrades necessary to transport turbines.

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The update of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement poses an unprecedented opportunity to integrate nature protection into countries' climate strategies, as early submissions have sparked hope despite the need for stronger targets, experts told Carbon Pulse.

Dr Richard Fox, from Butterfly Conservation, says he is "devastated" by the apparent decline.

Environment Agency review waste tyre exports after BBC probe reveals millions sent to furnaces in India.

More than half of Britain’s 59 native species are in long-term decline, UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme finds

Last summer was the fifth worst in nearly half a century for butterflies in Britain, according to the biggest scientific survey of insect populations in the world.

For the first time since scientific recording began in 1976, more than half of Britain’s 59 native species are in long-term decline.

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A 19th-century zoologist found the ‘little salt dweller’, which could be a portal to the past – if only we could locate it again

Last February, with colleagues Gert and Philipp and my daughter Francesca, I made the long journey to an unremarkable city called Río Cuarto, east of the Argentinian Andes. We went in search of a worm of unusual distinction.

Why a worm? As humans, we naturally love the animals that are most familiar. But from a zoologist’s point of view, the vertebrates, from mammals and birds to frogs and fish, can be seen as variations on a single theme. We all have a head at one end (with skull, eyes and jaws); in the middle, a couple of pairs of limbs (a goldfish’s fins, or your arms and legs); and, holding all this together, a backbone ending in a tail.

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The release of the Australian government’s update on the new integrated farm land management (IFLM) method has been given a lukewarm reception, with stakeholders raising concerns about the volume of outstanding issues yet to be settled.

A solar and battery project under development in Coonawarra will be the first in Australia to feature a new range of anti-hail solar panels.

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