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The Nasa astronauts prepare to head to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into nine months.

The Nasa astronauts prepare to head to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into nine months.

Prices generally drifted lower as buying appetite continued to favour the cheap end of the market, but national support for voluntary carbon buoyed sentiment.

Revealed: Edelman worked for Brazilian trade group accused of pushing for environmental rollbacks in Amazon

Edelman, the world’s largest public relations agency, is in talks to work with the Cop30 team organising the UN climate summit in the Amazon later this year despite its prior connections to a major trade group accused of lobbying to roll back measures to protect the area from deforestation, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.

The summit is set to take place in November in the city of Belém on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, which has been ravaged by deforestation linked to Brazil’s powerful agriculture industry. For the first time, the talks will be “at the epicenter of the climate crisis”, the summit’s president wrote last week. “As the Cop comes to the Amazon, forests will naturally be a central topic,” he added.

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A Copenhagen-based investor has secured €12 billion for its largest renewable energy fund to date, it announced last Friday.

Electricity producers have called on the European Commission to improve the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) before it starts applying next year, pointing to the risk of “double paying” CO2 charges when importing from the UK, and asking for “more realistic default values” to be applied when evaluating the carbon intensity of Britain’s electricity exports to Europe.

Swiss banks have the necessary tools to hit net zero emissions by 2050, but the fear of losing competitiveness is holding them back, according to a study that raises doubts about the effectiveness of voluntary commitments from banks worldwide.  

Village joins continental network alongside nearby Knepp estate, as birds previously extinct in Britain flourish

The Saxons knew the West Sussex village of Storrington as Estorchestone, the “abode of the storks”.

But the graceful white birds disappeared from its skies more than 600 years ago, when they became extinct in Britain.

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The world’s largest alliance of net zero-committed banks is considering rolling back its mitigation target to just above 2C, from 1.5C at present, a former member said at an event in New York on Monday.

While emissions from the buildings sector have stopped rising for the first time since 2020, a $1.1 trillion investment gap could derail global objectives to decarbonise the sector, according to a report released Monday.

By eliminating the $7 trillion worth of subsidies granted for fossil fuels worldwide, governments can significantly boost their economic welfare and cut global CO2 emissions by about a third, according to a study published on Monday.

Governments and organisations at a global forum in Barbados last week committed more than $900 million to expand energy access and support the clean energy transition across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

European carbon allowance prices began the week on a quiet note, with trade volume and volatility somewhat diminished compared to recent weeks, as the looming March options contract expiry continued to draw prices nearer to key strike price levels.

Forest fires in Nepal could potentially release more than 495 million tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere whilst endangering critical biodiversity hotspots as climate change makes the Himalayan nation more susceptible to blazes, according to researchers.

A global irrigation company is expanding into Turkiye by partnering with a US-based carbon credit company to launch a crediting initiative for farmers, it announced on Monday.

A public-private cohort in Italy is leading an initiative to advance the restoration of the country's largest wetland, with biodiversity credits among the tools being explored to mobilise financing.

An infrastructure investment fund has pledged $100 million to a digital asset security investment platform to scale financing towards conservation in the Amazon.

In a globalised voluntary carbon market with standards, developers, and validation and verification bodies often based in the Global North, Brazilian entities moved last week to ‘indigenise’ carbon markets – bringing them under the control of local peoples and the federal government.

Demand for off-site biodiversity net gain (BNG) units in England may have reached around 7,700 units last year, a report has suggested.

The largest co-located solar and battery storage project ever to be installed in the UK has reached financial close with record debt finance.