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Climate finance can be strengthened by drawing on experiences from market mechanisms, while carbon markets can benefit from being blended with financial instruments — thereby scaling climate action, particularly in Africa, a webinar heard this week.

Restrictive methodology exclusions in the aviation industry's international emissions offsetting scheme could see a lasting shortage of eligible carbon credits, potentially leaving airlines unable to meet their climate obligations, a group representing project developers has warned.

A France-based organisation involved in the emerging biodiversity market has set up an expert group with the aim of expanding its work to tropical forests.

Some 92% of businesses have found the implementation of biodiversity net gain (BNG) in England difficult, causing development delays, a small survey has suggested.

The UK government will publish a net zero public participation strategy later this year setting out how it intends to help people adopt low-carbon technologies — as the burden of decarbonisation the country shifts from power generation to consumer-facing sectors such as road transport and heating. 

I bought it to be part of a greener future, but that was before Musk proved so awful. I’d sell it now, but prices have dropped

After our children left home, my wife and I decided to treat ourselves and buy a new car for a driving holiday in Europe. We’d been driving a family estate car for years, loading it up with kids and making trips to and from universities, but we wanted something for ourselves.

As a surprise, she booked a test drive for the Tesla Model S for my birthday. It was unlike any car I’d been in before. I thought “Wow, this is amazing.” It felt like the future: a computer on wheels that was constantly updating with new features. I can’t say I feel that way now – and many people seem to share that view. Tesla sales figures declined by 13% in the first few months of this year. Others feel even more uneasy: more than 200 demonstrations happened last weekend outside company facilities around the world to protest against Elon Musk and the wrecking ball he has taken to the federal government.

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Application, submitted by Cranswick, would have created one of the largest industrial poultry and pig units in Europe

A megafarm that would have reared almost 1 million chickens and pigs at any one time has been blocked by councillors in Norfolk over climate change and environmental concerns.

Councillors on King’s Lynn and West Norfolk borough council unanimously rejected an application to build what would have been one of the largest industrial poultry and pig units in Europe.

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China’s carbon price will need to rise if cleaner and greener forms of steelmaking are to take hold despite a ‘tsunami’ of scrap steel that can be fed into cleaner furnaces coming in 2035, a consultancy said this week.

A California-based enhanced rock weathering (ERW) project developer announced Thursday a deal to provide Microsoft 12,000 carbon removal (CDR) credits, in a move the pair said seeks to advance the emerging technology.

Maintaining seed diversity and abundance is essential – and requires constant work. It’s time for Congress to return to the seed business

From 1862 until 1923, US senators and members of Congress provided vast numbers of seeds to constituents. At its peak, the congressional seed distribution program delivered over 60m seed packets directly to farmers and market gardeners every year, helping introduce new varieties of everything from wheat and corn to oats, soybeans, flowers and vegetables. A century later, far fewer Americans till the soil for a living, but seeds remain central to our lives.

To understand the importance of seeds, try to imagine a morning without them. It would begin naked on a bare mattress, with no cozy sheets or pajamas, and there would be no fluffy towel to wrap up in after your shower. All of those things come from the seeds of the cotton plant. Stumbling wet into the kitchen, you would find no coffee, and no toast or bagel to go with it. There would be no eggs, no bacon, no cereal, no milk. All of those staples come from seeds or from livestock raised on seed crops. And if you thought you might console yourself with a chocolate bar, you can forget it. Cocoa powder, and the cocoa butter that makes it melt in your mouth, are both derived from seeds.

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European carbon prices headed for their biggest daily loss in a month on Thursday, after the market gapped lower at the open as traders reacted to Washington's announcement of new import tariffs on all major trading partners, and dropped again in mid-morning as early US selling weighed on the market.

Prices in China's national emissions market continued to decline over the past week as recent policy updates have failed to stir enthusiasm among traders, while the country's voluntary market saw relatively robust trading activity amid improving demand.

Sanger Institute’s Tree of Life team say genomes offer invaluable insight into how species will fare under climate crisis

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“We are following the ‘invertebrate of the year’ series with bated breath,” began the email that arrived in the Guardian’s inbox last week.

Mark Blaxter leads the Sanger Institute’s Tree of Life programme, a project that sequences species’ DNA to understand the diversity and origins of life on Earth. But far more importantly, Blaxter and his team are superfans of our invertebrate of the year competition and have offered to map the genome sequence of whoever wins this year.

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An urban Canadian innovation hub announced Thursday the pre-purchase of CO2 removals (CDRs) for C$715 ($500) per tonne on average from six local ventures in conjunction with a consortium of Japanese partners.

The European Parliament approved on Thursday a proposal to "stop the clock" and delay application for two EU corporate sustainability reporting directives, following their vote on Tuesday to fast-track the decision.

An Ecuadorian association is pushing for a law to legalise voluntary environmental markets in the country, with the aim of having it presented again by October after it was blocked last year, its president told Carbon Pulse.

The UK's growing sector for fusion energy could see over £100 million invested via a partnership between the government and private sector as the government directs £20 mln into a fusion private venture capital fund.

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.

The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments.

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A UK public sector pension provider has launched a fund for investing in nature and climate markets with a target raise of £500 million ($657 mln).

Entire population of Thargomindah forced to flee homes as levee breaks and record water levels of 1974 flood eclipsed

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At first, the levee bank held firm as the flood waters came.

Locals had tirelessly constructed the dirt wall, building on areas where the last major flood had approached the south-west Queensland town.

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