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The roughly $100 billion continuing resolution passed by Congress and signed into law last week includes over $1 bln in emergency forest conservation and restoration funding for private forest owners impacted by natural disasters.

Two US companies announced on Monday an underground pore space easement agreement for approximately 140,000 acres (56,700 hectares) in Alabama to support carbon storage initiatives.

Academics from universities across the globe outlined in a paper published earlier this month a methodological framework they said can guide the optimal selection and siting of nature-based solutions (NBS) projects in urban contexts by incorporating social and other considerations.

Stricter greenhouse gas pricing policies, including higher carbon taxes and reduced fossil fuel subsidies, are reshaping global trade by shifting competitive advantages among industries, according to a working paper published by the World Trade Organization.

Campaigners say consumption such as travel, gifts and food are destroying planet and the meaning of Christmas

Whether out of poverty or virtue, many of us spend much of the year reining in our appetites to save our pennies and our health. But at Christmas many of us put our worries aside and go wild in an orgy of lavish gifting, extensive travel and a gluttonous feeding frenzy.

This carnival of consumption has a cost: not just to our wallets and our waistlines, but also to the climate.

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Microsoft has announced an AI-powered device aimed at improving biodiversity monitoring, with plans to make it available worldwide in 2025.

Nearly 100 countries have now submitted their Designated National Authority (DNA) under Article 6.4 to the UNFCCC, indicating growing interest in carbon market participation following the breakthrough on international carbon markets at COP29 in Baku.

European carbon prices traded lower in the final, holiday-shortened session ahead of the break, stretching the correlation with natural gas with some other markets already closed.

Denmark is introducing a new tax on CO2 emitted by enterprises already covered in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), with an Emission Tax Act set to enter into force on Jan. 1, 2025.

India’s forest and tree cover has increased since 2021 and stands at 827,357 square kilometres or around 25% of the country’s total geographical area, according to a government report released Saturday.

An international soft drinks provider has renewed its carbon removal partnership with London-headquartered industry specialist CUR8 for a second year, the two companies announced on Monday.

A Dubai-headquartered logistics company has issued a $100-million bond to support marine conservation projects, claimed to be the first of its kind in the MENA region.

Betchcott Hill has glorious views across the county and a mix of habitats home to curlew, cuckoo and lapwing

One of the most scenic and nature-rich spots in western England could be protected for ever in a boost for the curlew, cuckoo, lapwing and snipe that nest there.

Betchcott Hill has views across much of the county and its mix of grassland, wet flushes, woodland and heath sings with the calls of endangered birds in spring.

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A Dutch carbon project developer has discontinued two early-stage projects following feasibility studies, the company announced last week.

Businesses across Europe and beyond face mounting challenges to meet its stringent reporting requirements, as the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) comes into force on Jan. 1, according to experts.

Thailand has registered its first-ever biochar carbon dioxide removal (CDR) project on a Switzerland-based registry earlier this week.

Thailand’s cabinet has approved a proposal to exempt its mangrove forests from land tax starting 2025, country’s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) announced this week, according to local media reports.

The World Bank and Bangladesh have signed two financing agreements worth $900 million, part of which will help expand the country's access to carbon markets, the organisation said this week.

Conservationists and scientists in New Zealand were astonished to find the world’s rarest whale washed ashore in South Island in July. As only the seventh spade-toothed whale identified, and with none ever seen alive, this month saw the first dissection of a complete specimen

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The Bezos Earth Fund late last week released a report outlining how to scale CO2 removal technologies by 2050. Here's a summary of the key takeaways from the 109-page paper.