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Judicial review looking at claims agency allowed destructive levels of nutrients from chicken manure to enter waterway

One of the country’s favourite rivers is going into a “death spiral” say campaigners, as lawyers argued in court that the Environment Agency was failing to apply the law and save the waterway.

Anti-pollution charity River Action took the Environment Agency (EA) to court on Wednesday for a judicial review, claiming it is allowing destructive levels of nutrients from chicken manure to enter the River Wye.

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EU co-legislators are failing to adequately address how units generated through the Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) will be used and the potential for double counting or claiming of those units, NGOs warned in a letter to EU council negotiators this week.

The failure to adopt key Article 6 texts at the COP28 summit in Dubai should be a lesson for those engaging in international carbon markets, an expert told a conference on Thursday.

New commitments to underpin the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) agreement will be at the core of the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) that starts next week, as efforts to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 are gaining momentum.

Expectations of a surge in demand for carbon credits are beginning to rumble after analysis points to retirement levels jumping two-thirds in 2024 to top 250 million.

Researchers have unveiled a scorecard to evaluate the efforts of major financial firms in aligning with net zero emissions targets by 2050, highlighting nine as transition leaders.

A US startup has unveiled a commercial-scale carbon transformation unit as it aims to scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production, as well as sell credits to corporates from the resulting mitigation, Bloomberg reported.

Nuclear fusion still remains a long way off but brings the world one step closer to endless clean energy.

Countries lined up to trade carbon credits with Singapore have seen an uptick of interest from corporates itching to find bargains to meet their carbon tax exposure, according to the head of one analysis agency.

Italy’s data protection body investigates claims police shared names and addresses with firm collecting penalties for TfL

The names and addresses of thousands of EU drivers were unlawfully accessed by Italian police and shared with the company that collects Ulez penalties on behalf of Transport for London (TfL), investigators believe.

The Italian data protection authority is investigating claims by Belgium’s government that an unnamed police department misused official powers to pass the personal details of Belgian drivers to Euro Parking Collections, which is employed by TfL to issue fines to enforce London’s low emission zone (Lez) and ultra-low emission zone.

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Persistent downside factors have deepened a crisis in the EU steel and are set to curb what the ETS-covered sector hoped to be a demand rebound in 2024, while the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) may fix the problem in the future, according to market data published on Thursday.

EU countries and MEPs have provisionally agreed to postpone by two years a deadline adopting sector-specific European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), giving companies more time to adapt to the first set of rules. 

Feat by scientists at Oxfordshire facility described as ‘fitting swansong’ for pioneering project as reactor is decommissioned

The prospect of a green energy source based on the power of the stars has received a boost after scientists set a world record for the amount of energy created by fusing atoms together.

Researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET), an experimental fusion reactor at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, generated 69 megajoules of energy over five seconds from a mere 0.2 milligrams of fuel in the final fusion experiment performed at the facility.

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An auction for up to 10 million forward carbon credits from three host nations authorised for corresponding adjustments, tradeable units known as ITMOs, has been delayed until April, the sale's organisers said Thursday.

European carbon prices fell to an 18-month low amid solid selling on Thursday morning as prices tested a boundary in their recent range, while energy markets eased as weather forecasts highlighted above-normal temperatures.

Voluntary carbon accreditation body the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA) has refreshed its best practice code as it aims to keep pace with rapid changes affecting the market.

The Ghanaian government plans to deliver its first batch of ITMOs under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement by Q3 2024, according to a report released Thursday.

As the photographer turns 80, we look back as some of his most striking images from around the world. Salgado has been awarded Sony’s Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award 2024, and a selection of his work can be seen at Somerset House in London between 19 April and 6 May

• Photographer Sebastião Salgado at 80: ‘They say I was an aesthete of misery’

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A volcano in south-western Iceland has erupted for the second time this year, the country's meteorological office has said. Live images captured lava gushing out of a fissure, sending plumes of smoke and ash into the air. It the sixth outbreak on the Reykjanes peninsula since 2021, before when the volcano had been inactive for about 800 years. 'Reykjanes is fed by five volcanic systems, many of which come to life every 800 to 1,000 years,' said Dave McGarvie, a volcanologist at Lancaster University

• Iceland’s Reykjanes fires may burn for decades, history suggests

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The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council has approved the initial guidelines to expedite the implementation of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdictions (BBNJ) agreement, as signatory countries are lagging behind on the ratification process.