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The future of a troubled REDD avoided deforestation project in Zimbabwe has been left in limbo six months after it was suspended from the Verra registry.

The dystopian picture of renewables painted by the opposition leader is full of inconsistencies, partial truths and misinformation

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The Coalition leader, Peter Dutton, has been trying to paint a picture of what life in Australia will be like if it tries to power itself mostly with renewable energy and without his technology of choice: nuclear.

Towering turbines offshore will hurt whales, dolphins and the fishing industry, factories will be forced to stop working because there’s not enough electricity and the landscape will be scoured by enough new transmission cables to stretch around the entire Australian coastline.

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New fiscal rules approved on Tuesday by the European Parliament will make it even harder for EU member states to invest in green projects, thus slowing down the energy transition and efforts to reduce emissions, according to Greens party lawmakers and environmental groups.

The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC) has developed a globally applicable tool to assess the potential impact of investments on biodiversity, seeking to catalyse flows of resources towards nature-positive outcomes.

Sarah Benn is first of three GPs facing disciplinary tribunals this year over climate activism

A doctor who went to jail after a series of climate protests has been taken off the medical register for five months – and still faces being permanently struck off.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) – the disciplinary arm of the General Medical Council (GMC) – suspended Dr Sarah Benn on Tuesday, having found last week that her fitness to practise as a doctor had been impaired by reason of misconduct.

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An international standard-setting body on disclosures announced Tuesday it will include biodiversity research in its priorities for the next two years, paving the way for potential new requirements on nature for investors.

The EU’s Emissions Trading System for road transport and heating fuels, ETS2, is set to be dominated by the transport sector, with more than half of total emissions coming from cars, trucks, and vans that will rely heavily on electrification to decarbonise, analysts say.

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.

The post Nine projects in “hard to abate” sectors share $330m of federal funds to slash emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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.

The post Denmark plans massive 10GW offshore wind tender to insure against “Putin’s black gas” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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.