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Wyoming lawmakers introduced a bill in the state legislature on Friday, detailing plans to repeal low-carbon energy standard requirements.

The US EPA provided the financial status Monday of more than 70 programmes funded by about $78 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

The US Supreme Court declined two oil and gas companies’ requests for the country's highest court to review a Hawaii Supreme Court decision that allowed lawsuits seeking alleged climate-related damages to proceed.

Nuclear energy could power the UK’s turbocharged drive to unleash a wave of artificial intelligence technologies across the country by 2030, according to the government.

Four South Pole co-founders, including former CEO Renat Heuberger, are set to launch an advisory firm later this month that will focus on scaling sustainability startups, they announced in a statement on the company's new website.

The Brazilian subsidiary of international carbon exchange ACX, created through a partnership struck last year with Brazil’s B3 stock exchange, handled around R$100 million ($16 mln) in transactions involving nearly 4 mln tonnes of CO2 in its first six months of operation, according to local media.

The voluntary carbon market saw marginally higher retirements in 2024, when taking into account newer registries, amid an underlying shift towards higher quality credits from buyers, according to new analysis of credit retirements published on Monday.

The EU's plan to phase out palm oil and crop-based biofuels is compatible with international market rules, but implementation has to improve, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has established, ruling on a five-year-old Indonesian dispute.

Shell continued its voluntary carbon credit retirement spree last week to keep the market ticking over, amid a quiet start to the year that is relying on pockets of North American demand to prop up prices.

A Cambridge-headquartered microcomputer producer has partnered with an enhanced rock weathering (ERW) company to offer carbon removal credits for buyers of its single-board computers.

With the US presidential inauguration just one week away, heralding the return of former President Donald Trump, Latin American strides forward on carbon markets and energy transition contrast with the predicted pall over US climate policy.

The news from California is clear, but we don’t want to see it. It’s too confounding, big, complex. But we can sense the danger

When I send anxious texts to friends in Los Angeles – friends who have been evacuated or who are waiting to leave , friends escaping a fire zone, wondering if their life’s work has been destroyed, worrying about the smoke’s effect on an asthmatic child – I always begin with the same three words:are you OK?

But a continent away, watching photos and videos of a city I love being incinerated, overcome by waves of terror, grief and mourning, I have other questions.

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France is the only country that has not yet responded to an infringement procedure launched last summer against 26 member states for failing to implement the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for transport and heating fuels (ETS2) into national law, Carbon Pulse can reveal.

Heathrow Airport has increased its incentive scheme for sustainable aviation fuel, aiming to boost it to 3% of total jet fuel use in 2025 — but UK industry is under heat to meet growing need for the cleaner fuel, faced with challenges including project finance and access to resources.

Europe’s aviation industry is set to double passenger traffic by 2050, a trajectory “irreconcilable” with the region's climate goals, with the sector on course to deplete its carbon budget as early as 2026, according to a report released on Monday.

Australian mainland states permit killing of nearly 5 million annually as part of industry supplying meat and leather products

Wildlife advocates are calling for a halt to the commercial harvesting of kangaroos in Victoria’s Grampians region in the wake of recent bushfires.

Wildlife Victoria warned of “catastrophic and long-term impacts” on native plants and animals due to the fires, which burned through 76,000 hectares of national park and farmland, and called for a stop to the controversial practice until the impact on kangaroo populations could be fully assessed.

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Saudi Arabia will soon establish a provisional carbon market that issues credits from renewable energy production, a senior official said on a live broadcast Saturday.

Climate activists from Just Stop Oil painted over the grave of the British naturalist Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey in London. Two activists wrote '1.5 is dead' in orange over the marble gravestone, in reference to recent news that global temperatures in 2024 had exceeded 1.5C above the pre-industrial era for the first time

• Just Stop Oil activists spray-paint ‘1.5 is dead’ on Charles Darwin’s grave

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The cost of restoring all of Australia’s degraded flora and fauna as well as protecting its biodiversity would be a quarter of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) of 2022, a complex suite of calculations from a leading university has found.

Bank of China has become the first Chinese financial institution to join the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) in a move expected to pave the way for enhanced corporate reporting in the Asian country.