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Brown trout unlikely to survive in most rivers at height of summer by 2080, says Environment Agency

It has been native to Britain for thousands of years and was heralded as the national fish on the BBC’s Springwatch, but a government report suggests the brown trout risks being wiped out in large parts of England within decades.

The first national temperature projections for English rivers by the Environment Agency forecasts that by 2080 the water will be too warm almost everywhere in England at the height of summer for the iconic Salmo trutta species to feed and grow.

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Carbon markets are misinterpreting how the target of “zero net emissions” should be reached, according to a physicist behind the concept, speaking to Carbon Pulse.

The parliament of Ghana has set up a committee to explore a proposed pension scheme for the members which will be funded by revenues generated from carbon credits, even as the idea has been severely criticised by a local non-profit.

Grassland for livestock faces largest cut, so people will be encouraged to eat less meat, says environment secretary

Farmland in England will be reduced by more than 10% by 2050 under government plans, with less meat produced and eaten by the country’s citizens.

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, launched the government’s blueprint for land use change on Friday, designed to balance the need to build infrastructure and meet nature and carbon targets.

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The UK government launched on Friday a public consultation on a framework aimed at enhancing decision-making on land use across the country, with potential implications for the emerging nature markets.

Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia show a sustained strategy approved by environment minister Tanya Plibersek

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The Australian government carried out an international lobbying campaign to keep the Great Barrier Reef off a list of world heritage sites in danger, including dispatching politicians and officials to Unesco’s Paris headquarters and asking diplomats to gather intelligence on countries that could influence the decision.

The campaign is revealed in documents released to the Greens after a parliamentary request and show how Australia sought to influence Unesco and members of the 21-country world heritage committee in the lead up to a crunch meeting in July last year.

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A new certification requiring consumer brands to set a $15/tonne internal carbon fee could raise $6.75 million this year to be spent on carbon credits, if the companies signed up so far maximise the full potential of offsetting available to them.

The US DOE has selected a Canadian carbon capture and storage (CCS) developer for a cost-sharing deal of up to $1.5 million to study CO2 capture at an Arkansas pulp site, the British Columbia-based firm said this week.

European carbon permits were poised to return a 14% monthly rise in January after posting a seventh gain in the last 10 days on Friday morning, with a strong auction outcome underpinning the market's stability amid strength in power and gas, while UKAs remained on course to record their largest-ever weekly gain.

Gold Standard is seeking feedback on a methodology to eradicate the huge emissions from commercial aircraft contrails that is as about as two thirds as potent to global warming than aviation CO2 emissions.

A Liechtenstein-headquartered private bank and asset manager has teamed up with a UK-based nature analytics company to better assess how its investments impact biodiversity.

An Iceland-based carbon registry has received received full and unconditional endorsement from the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA) for its crediting programme.

Scheme backed by €170m fund crucial to getting agreement from farmers, politicians and environmental groups

“Plant-based foods are the future.” That is not a statement you would expect from a right-wing farming minister in a major meat-producing nation. Denmark produces more meat per capita than any other country in the world, with its 6 million people far outnumbered by its 30 million pigs, and it has a big dairy industry too. Yet this is how Jacob Jensen, from the Liberal party, introduced the nation’s world-first action plan for plant-based foods.

“If we want to reduce the climate footprint within the agricultural sector, then we all have to eat more plant-based foods,” he said at the plan’s launch in October 2023, and since then the scheme has gone from strength to strength. Backed by a €170m government fund, it is now supporting plant-based food from farm to fork, from making tempeh from broad beans and a chicken substitute from fungi to on-site tastings at kebab and burger shops and the first vegan chef degree.

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US-based carbon standard Climate Action Reserve (CAR) has opened a second public consultation on proposed updates to its Mexico Forest Protocol Version 3.0 (MFP V3.0), seeking to clarify and strengthen requirements for project eligibility, monitoring, and verification.

A German multinational has partnered with a business consortium in Kenya to facilitate soil carbon offset projects in the East African nation and across the continent.

The share of carbon in the cost structure of industries covered by the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is currently too small to cause deindustrialisation on its own, but will become a growing cause for concern in the coming years, analysts said.

The decision to expand Heathrow is just the latest evidence that my party is chasing policies that serve profit, not people

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s recent “big growth agenda” speech wasn’t just the expression of a vision for the economy. It was also a warning shot to wavering Labour MPs. The message was blunt: get on board with the government’s economic strategy or step aside. Growth, we were told, is the non-negotiable mission.

This was not a sudden shift but a reaffirmation of her stance at Davos, where she made clear that “the answer can’t always be no”. That answer, now firmly codified, prioritises GDP growth above all else. Heathrow airport expansion is in; net zero, bats and newts are out. The promise? A revitalised economy, busy high streets and more bobbies on the beat – a Labour-friendly vision of progress designed to bolster morale and stuff leaflets with “good news” ahead of the next election.

Clive Lewis is the Labour MP for Norwich South

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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and a Norwegian aluminium producer announced this week a five-year partnership worth $45 million to develop carbon capture technologies in a bid to reduce emissions from aluminium smelting.

Global non-profit Conservation International (CI) is looking to establish what it says is the first indigenously co-owned carbon project in the country, using Verra's latest REDD+ methodology.