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A responsible investment non-profit will call upon the board of a large UK bank to close the loophole allowing it to continue financing oil and gas companies without a credible climate transition plan, during its annual general meeting on Wednesday.

Biochar was the most purchased carbon removal method in Q1 2025, making up nearly a third of all contracted credits, with several new buyers entering the voluntary carbon market, according to a London-based carbon data platform.

Allowing international carbon credits to meet the EU’s 2040 climate goal risks dealing a fatal blow to the bloc’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), warns Swedish MEP Emma Wiesner, who is mounting a pushback in the European Parliament against the idea.

XPRIZE has awarded $80 million to six carbon removal companies developing "highly-scalable" technology, with a US-based Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) project developer taking the $50 mln grand prize, the non-profit announced Wednesday.

About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority

• The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89% Project – and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read more

A superpower in the fight against global heating is hiding in plain sight. It turns out that the overwhelming majority of people in the world – between 80% and 89%, according to a growing number of peer-reviewed scientific studies – want their governments to take stronger climate action.

As co-founders of a non-profit that studies news coverage of climate change, those findings surprised even us. And they are a sharp rebuttal to the Trump administration’s efforts to attack anyone who does care about the climate crisis.

Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope are the co-founders of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now

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Last of 640 battery packs installed at giant Collie facility, which was to be the biggest battery in Australia but now won't even be the biggest battery in its home town.

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Wines produced after 2010 showed steep rise in contamination of trifluoroacetic acid, analysis finds

Levels of a little-known forever chemical known as TFA in European wines have risen “alarmingly” in recent decades, according to analysis, prompting fears that contamination will breach a planetary boundary.

Researchers from Pesticide Action Network Europe tested 49 bottles of commercial wine to see how TFA contamination in food and drink had progressed. They found levels of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a breakdown product of long-lasting Pfas chemicals that carries possible fertility risks, far above those previously measured in water.

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Nestle has partnered with a global cocoa supplier on an agroforestry initiative that aims to cut 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 over 30 years, the two companies announced Tuesday.

Global giant behind giga-scale solar farm that will help power aluminium smelter says Australia among best places in world to be "green and strongly competitive" at same time.

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In early 2023, the planet's worst coral bleaching event began. More than two years later, 80% of the planet's reefs have been affected by successive marine heatwaves hitting ecosystems from the Great Barrier Reef to the Mesoamerican Reef

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The culling of 700 starving koalas in Victoria has triggered outrage. There has to be a better way to respond after bushfire. Liz Hicks, Lecturer in Law, The University of Melbourne Ashleigh Best, Barrister, Victorian Bar and Honorary Fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

‘Chemical fingerprint’ shows 46% of wood samples certified as sustainable did not come from labelled country of origin

Nearly half of birch wood certified by leading sustainability schemes is misidentified and does not come from the labelled country of origin, according to new testing. The analysis raises fears that large quantities of sanctioned wood from Russia and Belarus are still illegally entering Britain.

New research by World Forest ID, a consortium of research organisations that includes Kew Gardens and the World Resources Institute, scrutinised the accuracy of dozens of harvesting-origin claims on birch products, which had almost entirely been approved by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) sustainability schemes.

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One developer has flipped a planned solar project with optional battery, into a proposed battery project with an optional solar.

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A New Zealand judge has rejected an effort to have the list of defendants in a landmark climate case for the Pacific country expanded, according to reports.

Labour must deliver the green transition voters want, leaving Reform and the Tories on the side of economic decline and dictators

Which former British prime minister described the climate emergency as “a clock ticking to the furious rhythm of hundreds of billions of pistons and turbines and furnaces and engines … quilting the Earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2”?

The florid style gives it away. You’d guess Boris Johnson even if you’d forgotten that the master of Brexit bombast also had a sideline in net zero evangelism. It wasn’t the most memorable part of his repertoire and it didn’t catch on as a Conservative catechism.

Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist

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Adaptive planning doesn’t mean people have to abandon coastal towns. It is about having a roadmap with multiple options to adjust as climate conditions evolve. Tom Logan, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar of Civil Systems Engineering, University of Canterbury Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says

The world’s coral reefs have been pushed into “uncharted territory” by the worst global bleaching event on record that has now hit more than 80% of the planet’s reefs, scientists have warned.

Reefs in at least 82 countries and territories have been exposed to enough heat to turn corals white since the global event started in January 2023, the latest data from the US government’s Coral Reef Watch shows.

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Dozens of miniature horses and their human running mates have taken part in the Great Northern Gallop, an adventure race through dense forests and across rugged beaches in New Zealand’s Far North. Participants run or walk 100km over four days for the event, which raises money for the welfare of miniature horses

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OpenSolar's Sophie Wright on the mission to streamline solar businesses so that more money and time can be spent where it's most needed - putting panels on rooftops. Plus, the news of the week.

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