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Climate change is exacerbating many of the conditions that fuel conflict — from drought in the Middle East worsening food insecurity and inflation, to access over strategic resources like lithium and cobalt becoming a key source of tension — amid lagging efforts to curtail emissions.

A partnership with an agricultural technology firm is set to enable a bioethanol producer with field-level assessment of carbon intensity (CI) of biofuels feedstock and the ability to leverage federal tax credits.

Companies across cement, alumina, mining, metals and food processing sectors share in $330 million in federal funding to help clean up their acts.

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The government of Northern Ireland has launched consultations on two initiatives aimed at enhancing ocean conservation, as it seeks to strengthen biodiversity monitoring and hasten the restoration of marine and "blue carbon" habitats.

An urban innovation hub in Toronto is buying carbon removal credits for an average C$715 ($522) each from five Canadian startups, it said Tuesday.

The Finance for Biodiversity Foundation (FfB) has released a set of recommendations for policymakers to align financial flows with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

European carbon prices were little changed at midday on Tuesday after earlier rising by as much as 1.4% amid wider gains in energy markets, as traders appeared to be taking a cautious approach ahead of Wednesday's Commitment of Traders data.

Cooper Wallace wore a costume and lunged at some chips in his act at the impersonation contest in Belgium

A nine-year-old boy from Derbyshire has screeched his way to victory at the European championships of a gull impersonation competition.

Cooper Wallace, a gull enthusiast from Chesterfield, competed in the fourth European gull screeching championship in Belgium on Sunday.

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Trudi Warner on a year being pursued by government lawyers determined to prosecute her over a jurors’ rights protest

Two days before Trudi Warner faced court under threat of a contempt of court prosecution, she fell off her bike and ruptured the tendons in her hand.

Now the hand is black and blue, tightly bandaged, and requires surgery. It is an indication that 69-year-old Warner, who spent her working life as a child social worker and has committed her retirement to climate action, is not as tough and unflappable as her demeanour suggests.

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The UN’s special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous People has called for a moratorium on voluntary carbon markets to stop human rights violations.

Some 160 financial institutions, with $15.5 trillion in collective assets under management, have called for an ambitious international treaty to end plastic pollution, in a statement led by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).

Denmark announces plans for the largest offshore wind tender in the country’s history, seeking anywhere from 6GW to 10GW across six new sites.

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Asia is warming faster than the global average, with warming trends in the region nearly doubling since the 1961–1990 period and the impact of heatwaves becoming more severe, said the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s report on Tuesday.

Nasa says its most distant probe is once again sending usable information back to Earth.

A credit management platform developed by banks has partnered with a UK project developer to deliver carbon credits that support home retrofit at scale, in a drive to decarbonise the UK's carbon-intensive housing stock.

China is on track to reach its carbon peaking and neutrality targets, though the country may only see its coal consumption fall by one-third by 2040, a report has found.

Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ice. This could happen again – unless we cut emissions fast. Dan Lowry, Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science Holly Kyeore Han, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A Singapore-based environmental venture and a global natural capital firm have partnered to launch a new fund tied to Article 6 deals with governments, the two announced Tuesday.

Ecuadorian ambassador to the UK is hopeful impasse can be overcome at treaty negotiations in Ottawa

As UN talks begin to agree the first global treaty to reduce soaring plastic waste, the chair of the meetings has said he is confident countries will come together to secure an agreement.

Luis Vayas Valdivieso, the Ecuadorian ambassador to the UK, admitted it would be a challenge to overcome an impasse that has emerged between countries which produce plastic and others that have ambitions to tackle plastic pollution over its whole life. But Valdivieso, who will chair the UN intergovernmental negotiations on a future international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution in Ottawa, Canada, this week, said: “We have to face those challenges and work with them. Compromise is an important word that we need to take into account.

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Claire O’Neill, a former climate minister, says PM’s move was to ‘try and create political division and dividing lines’

The UK government’s decision to weaken some of its climate commitments was a “retrograde step” that will set back vital cross-party action to cut carbon emissions, Claire O’Neill, a former Conservative climate minister, has said.

O’Neill, who was known as Claire Perry when she served as a minister under David Cameron and Theresa May, said the rolling back of emission reduction efforts by Rishi Sunak appeared to be a ploy for political advantage.

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