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The European Commission proposed on Thursday to integrate the so-called High Seas Treaty, which seeks to curb biodiversity loss in international waters, into EU law.

The UN and Brazil are upping the pressure on countries around the world to submit strengthened climate action plans for the decade ahead, with seven months to go before a COP summit that will make clear whether countries are acting on pledges to transition away from fossil fuels and ramp up renewables. 

The European Commission this week convened agricultural groups and banks in an effort to explore how nature credits can encourage private investment in conservation.

Analysis from an international law firm has concluded that linking the UK and EU emissions trading schemes (ETS) is feasible outside the framework of the Brexit process and not too legally problematic.

A draft law to amend the bloc's gas storage regulation cleared the first hurdle in the European Parliament, with members of the industry committee agreeing on Thursday to extend by two years the storage targets introduced in 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while lowering the mandatory annual filling target from 90% to 83%.

​Gold Standard has introduced new rules aimed at aligning more closely with the Paris Agreement and updating biomass accounting practices concerning cookstoves projects, it said Thursday.

Eni has reached financial close with the UK government on a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in northwest England, where the Italian oil major will operate the CO2 transport and storage infrastructure.

The European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research, and Energy (ITRE) gave the green light on Thursday to changes proposed by the European Commission to simplify the EU's carbon border tariff.

US President Donald Trump’s tariff war could see rapidly expanding climate funds turn their attention to Latin America and Southeast Asia, analysts have predicted.

A Belgian agritech firm has launched a farm assessment framework that adds biodiversity, soil, water, climate, and socio-economic metrics to its existing carbon-focused approach, the company announced Thursday.

Asian civil society groups have warned Europe against the Japanese model of financing liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure abroad, saying this would conflict with EU climate goals and lock the bloc’s dependence on fossil fuel infrastructure for the long term.

Birds in their 40s wintering on mudflats of the Wash received leg rings in early 1980s

If your ears are assaulted by the shrill piping calls of an excitable bird on the east coast of England, fear not: it’s probably an oystercatcher experiencing a midlife crisis.

Two of the handsome black and white birds with bright red-orange bills have been found to be the oldest known oystercatchers ever recorded in Britain, clocking up at least 41 and 43 years on the mudflats of the Wash.

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A CO2 removals portfolio manager has initiated rating coverage on, and awarded a top grade to, a Canadian firm described as the world’s first “technology-agnostic” developer of direct air capture (DAC) projects.

Campaigners condemn decision amid growing evidence of harm to health and climate from heating appliances

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Wood-burning stoves will be allowed to heat new-build homes in England despite growing evidence showing their significant contribution to air pollution and carbon emissions.

The government is writing its future homes standard, a set of rules for developers, aimed at decarbonising England’s housing stock. Heating the UK’s 28m homes accounts for about 18% of greenhouse gas emissions.

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The global artificial intelligence (AI) boom could lift GDP growth by 0.5 percentage points a year through 2030 but risks adding 1.7 billion tonnes of CO2 over the same period unless energy systems adapt, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) found in a report.

The UK Energy Secretary was speaking at the opening of a two day summit on energy security.

The UK Energy Secretary was speaking at the opening of a two day summit on energy security.

Australia’s Agriprove Solutions has launched a new product for farmers hoping to access ag-tech and services using existing or future carbon credits, cash, or both, it said Thursday.

The Nigerian government has finalised its carbon market regulations through which it expects to unlock up to $2.5 billion in revenue from carbon credits and other investments by the end of the decade, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced.

Deep tracks gouged in the seafloor off the coast of Scotland could help us understand Antarctica today.