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A British company director has been banned for 11 years after hundreds of investors lost more than £8.5 million in two failed schemes linked to "green" teak plantations in Brazil.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has developed 11 indicators that financial institutions can use to assess the nature progress of their portfolio companies.

The holiday break took its toll on the voluntary carbon credits with liquidity and prices sliding last week, but the UK government gave a fillip to the market after throwing its weight behind integrity initiatives and the use of both reductions and removal credits to mitigate Scope 3 emission claims.

A carbon removal portfolio manager and marketplace will open a new request for proposals (RFP) to acquire large-scale volumes of credits next month on behalf of its corporate clients.

Blocking sunlight could temporarily slow the climate crisis but the technologies remain highly controversial

UK scientists are to launch outdoor geoengineering experiments as part of a £50m government-funded programme.

The experiments will be small-scale and rigorously assessed, according to Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), the UK government agency backing the plan, and will provide “critical” data needed to assess the potential of the technology. The programme, along with another £11m project, will make the UK one of the biggest funders of geoengineering research in the world.

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Nature-based solutions (NbS), often aimed at tackling the climate crisis, are damaging biodiversity through greenwashing actions that require a radical rethink, Friends of the Earth International said Tuesday.

A Milan-based climate tech firm has offered up a small batch of ocean-based carbon removal credits at $680 per tonne via a blockchain marketplace.

EU carbon analysts struggle to see a political avenue for delaying the introduction of the new ETS2 emissions trading system, despite rising fears across several EU member states about the impact of the consumer-facing pricing mechanism.

A US-based dairy products manufacturer announced a deal Tuesday to purchase a batch of first-of-its-kind methane avoidance credits from an upstart project developer dedicated to diverting food waste from landfills.

A Copenhagen-based agtech firm announced Tuesday it has launched a transparency initiative aimed at boosting confidence in the voluntary soil carbon credit market.

While foreign countries may accept international credits to achieve their climate targets under the Paris Agreement, the EU is unlikely to consider allowing carbon removal (CDR) units for compliance under its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) until the mid-2030s, according to an expert consultant.

As temperatures rise and countries back off their decarbonization efforts, we must confront a reality central banks can’t correct

Inflation is, at base, a tax on consumption – and it hits the poor the hardest, since they consume more of their incomes and the rich consume less.

That’s one reason for concern over Donald Trump’s tariffs, which will disproportionately affect the poor. When the 90-day pause on the tariffs expires, it is reasonable to expect prices to rise, and by a lot.

Mark Blyth is a political economist and professor at Brown University. Nicolò Fraccaroli is a visiting scholar at Brown University.

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White-faced darters transported to South Solway Mosses as hotter summers dry out its bog pool breeding sites

With its chalk-white face and bright flame-coloured markings, the white-faced darter dragonfly is a distinctive sight as it flutters around England’s peat bogs.

The rare dragonfly, which breeds in mossy pools, is at threat of local extinction, but now conservationists are trying to end its population crash by introducing it into a remote corner of Cumbria.

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European carbon prices started the week sharply lower, gapping down from last Thursday's closing level, as the market responded to news reports over the weekend casting doubt on the tenure of US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, while US-Chinese trade talks appeared to be bogging down amid lack of communication.

A major Indigenous group in the Brazilian Amazon has advanced the collection of critical data within their territories, which "as a first step" must be integrated into the nascent biodiversity credit markets, its monitoring manager told Carbon Pulse.

South Korea is nowhere close to meeting its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) without doubling its current yearly emissions reductions or the heavy use of international offsets, a paper from two think tanks has warned.

The last of 75 turbines has been installed at the biggest wind project yet built in South Australia which will help edge the state closer to 100 pct net renewables.

The post Final turbine installed at largest wind project in state edging closer to 100 pct net renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Three out of Australia's four aluminium smelters could risk closure if Australia adopts nuclear power, reducing energy supplied to industry.

The post Commitment to nuclear power could kill off most of Australia’s aluminium industry, study warns appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch a year-long exploration of the ‘silent majority’ of people who want to fight climate change

The Guardian US is launching a year-long collaborative reporting project that seeks to explore a pivotal but little-known fact about the climate crisis: the overwhelming majority of the world’s people want their governments to take stronger action.

The 89 Percent Project is a partnership between the Guardian US, Covering Climate Now, Agence France-Presse and dozens of other newsrooms across the globe. The collaboration builds on a slate of recent scientific studies finding that between 80-89% of the world’s population want stronger climate action. This overwhelming global majority, however, does not realize that they are a majority; most think their fellow citizens don’t agree. Experts agree breaking this “spiral of silence” could be pivotal to spurring critical climate action.

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An investigation has found that meat producer JBS is likely to miss its goal to eliminate deforestation in its Amazonian supply chain.