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The Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) has lost one of its key backers after a three-year incubation grant provided by Jeff Bezos’s $10 billion philanthropic fund expired at the end of last year, the standard setter confirmed to Carbon Pulse on Wednesday.

A group of global NGOs has included funding biodiversity credits among the steps that the EU Commission should take to mobilise financing under the bloc's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform.

Electrification in the chemical sector can be doubled or even quadrupled depending on the pathways, and up to 90% of current processes could be connected to clean power sources to decarbonise, according to the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC), a trade association.

Biomass-based carbon removal (CDR) methods achieve higher CO2 retention than direct air capture (DAC) and enhanced rock weathering (ERW), according to new scientific research assessing the efficiency and energy use of 12 engineered carbon removal technologies.

EU carbon prices fell for a third session as selling pressure continued to cap the recent rally, even as energy markets were flat to slightly firmer, leading some sources to point to equities as providing influence on EUAs on Wednesday.

Team has produced more than 20 embryos using method used in humans, though there are no plans for live joeys

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Scientists have produced kangaroo embryos through in vitro fertilisation for the first time, in a development they say could help conservation of endangered animals.

Australian researchers at the University of Queensland made the eastern grey kangaroo embryos using intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), a technique widely used in human IVF, in which a sperm is injected into a mature egg.

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The Indian government is moving forward in establishing its carbon market, with the trading of first carbon credit certificates in the compliance market expected to happen in Oct. 2026, the market regulator told a conference Wednesday.

An England-based nature tech company released on Tuesday a framework seeking to steer private organisations to invest in nature, including a hierarchy of metrics to measure the recovery of ecosystems.

Ian Wood wins Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award with photo taken in St Leonards-on-Sea

A badger captured glancing up at a graffiti version of itself has won the Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award for wildlife photographer of the year.

The image was taken by a British photographer, Ian Wood, on a quiet road in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.

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Another major European fossil fuel producer has cut its clean energy targets, following BP and Shell watering down their climate goals last year.

A French startup has partnered with a carbon storage firm to launch France’s first bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project.

French energy giant TotalEnergies increased its annual spend on carbon credits 2% year-on-year to $49 million in 2024, according to financial results published Wednesday.

The government of India is working to establish host country authorisation procedures under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, a panellist told the Carbon Market Association of India’s (CMAI) climate conference in New Delhi on Wednesday.

A Colombian developer and asset manager is planning to put on sale up to 30,000 biodiversity credits later this year generated within a marine conservation project in Zanzibar, the company told Carbon Pulse.

South Korea's trade ministry has pledged to spend 129.3 billion won ($89 million) this year to support R&D projects in the energy sector that will help the country achieve carbon neutrality and ensure a stable supply of energy.

The US administration's sudden decision to freeze all foreign assistance programmes is having far-reaching impacts on biodiversity and climate projects worldwide, with some weighing options to bridge the funding gap amid fears that the move could foreshadow a permanent cut to aid for nature conservation.

New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission (CCC) says issues relating to the country’s industrial allocation practices are worth examining, in response to a petition calling for a rapid phase-out of the scheme.

Three regional banks in Japan's Hokkaido prefecture will support an emissions reduction project targeting waste management in the dairy farming sector, they announced, the first of its kind in the country.

Freedom of information data reveals violations on intensive poultry and pig farms

Industrial-scale livestock farms across East Anglia have breached environmental regulations more than 700 times in the past seven years, freedom of information (FoI) data has revealed.

The farms across Norfolk and Suffolk are among the largest in the country. Pig and poultry farming is concentrated in the region and 28% of England’s pig population was farmed in the area in 2023.

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Trees and greenspace can drive down urban temperatures – but they must be able to draw water from the soil to achieve these massive cooling effects. Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.