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The Central Bank of Kenya has issued a green finance taxonomy and a disclosure framework for climate-related risks, in an effort to green the banking sector and mitigate the risks associated with climate change.

European carbon prices extended their tariff-induced plunge for a fourth day, reaching the lowest intraday level in six months amid continued widespread selling across commodity and equity markets after US President Donald Trump gave no indication over the weekend that higher import tariffs on goods into the country would be delayed or negotiated.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a €260 million loan for a Swedish energy company to build the country’s first large-scale bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) facility.

A global specialist in lifecycle management of refrigerants and fire suppressants, which develops offset projects that abate ozone-depleting substances (ODS), has acquired a Canadian company in the refrigerant sector.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued a memo aiming to reduce environmental safeguards across over 45 million hectares of forest, amid the administration's ongoing push to increase logging activities in the country.

The UK government has shortlisted more than two dozen clean hydrogen projects for a subsidy scheme aimed at helping to decarbonise heavy-emitting industries and driving economic growth in the country's industrial heartlands, it announced on Monday.

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea levels 2 metres higher by 2300 than currently predicted. Chen Zhao, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania Ben Galton-Fenzi, Principal Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A Tokyo-headquartered developer has tapped into India's biochar-based carbon removal market through a newly formed partnership with local companies.

We do not have the luxury of rejecting solutions before we have thoroughly investigated their risks, trade-offs and feasibility

As a lifelong scientist, I have always believed that if something is possible, we can find a way to achieve it. And yet, one of the starkest realities we now face is that the world is failing to meet its climate goals. Last year marked a historic and deeply troubling threshold: for the first time, global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Without drastic and immediate climate action, this breach will not be temporary. The consequences – rising sea levels, extreme weather and devastating loss of biodiversity – are no longer projections for the distant future. They are happening now, affecting millions of lives, and likely to cause trillions in damages in decades to come.

But we must think beyond our immediate horizons. When I read The Iliad, I am reminded that it was written 2,800 years ago. I often wonder: in another 2,800 years, what will people – if humanity as we know it still exists – read about our time? Will they see us as the generation that failed to act or one that made the choices necessary to safeguard the planet for the future?

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Even the fossil fuel companies who pitched CCS as their get-out-of-jail-free card no longer believe in the economics.

The post The great carbon capture con: Too expensive, even for Woodside appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The price of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) slipped lower on Monday after a week of steady gains, as the Labor party appears more likely to be returned to government on May 3.

The last of the 1,300 oversized parts for Andrew Forrest's biggest wind farm to date have been delivered to the site.

The post Final turbine blades delivered to Andrew Forrest’s biggest wind project to date appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A Singapore-based company has embarked on what it claims is the world's largest boreal reforestation project, aiming to restore 750,000 hectares of degraded forest land in northern Mongolia.

Carbon allowances for the New Zealand emissions trading scheme (ETS) held in the national registry grew by roughly 7 million in the quarter ending March, according to government data published Monday, ahead of the annual surrender deadline.

India's weather department has issued a yellow alert for parts for northern India until Wednesday.

Veteran climate leader Christiana Figueres has defended recent policy simplifications measures put forward in the European Union, arguing that broader participation in sustainability policies was more important than perfectionist measures.

Guardian readers around the world voted in the this year’s contest, celebrating our spineless, friendly neighbours. But which creature won?

If you didn’t vote in the recent ballot, you missed out. Here was a vote where all 10 candidates were creative and morally upstanding, a vote unsullied by dubious lobbies, dodgy polls or demagogues. And if you’re seeking inspiration from a figure of strength who is also strangely cute then look no further than the winner of 2025: Milnesium tardigradum, a microscopic multisegmented animal that resembles a piglet wrapped in an enormous duvet.

Thousands of Guardian readers around the world voted in the contest, which we invented to celebrate the overlooked, unsung heroes of our planet.

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The home battery rebate is being hailed as the most significant consumer energy policy in decades. Here's how it will work and who will benefit.

The post Home battery rebate hailed as most crucial consumer energy policy since rooftop solar. Here’s how it will work appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Inverleigh wind farm near Geelong is due to begin construction later this year and will be the first Australian project for a new development company.

The post After almost 20 years, Inverleigh wind project near Geelong is almost shovel-ready appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Labor’s promised subsidies for home batteries have to be well targeted. If not, they could simply make rich households richer. Rohan Best, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.