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UK should publish updated national biodiversity plan -report
INTERVIEW: Startup seeks to boost coffee yield, climate resilience with mobile biochar reactors
Voluntary carbon standard advances deforestation risk mapping plans for jurisdictional REDD
EU report flags differences between biodiversity disclosure initiatives
Climate target organisation faces staff revolt over carbon-offsetting plan
Employees at SBTi have called for their CEO to resign over controversial plans which they fear will enable greenwashing
Staff at one of the world’s leading climate-certification organisations have called for the CEO and board members to resign after they announced plans to allow companies to meet their climate targets with carbon offsets.
They fear that companies will use the offsets for greenwashing, while avoiding making the necessary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions – without which the world faces climate catastrophe.
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EU lawmakers approve reform of power market, leaving room for ‘low-carbon’ gas
Flooded farms in England refused compensation as ‘too far’ from river
Government recovery fund stipulates affected areas must be less than 150 metres from a ‘main’ river
Farmers who have their entire cropping land submerged underwater have found they are ineligible for a government flooding hardship fund – because their farms are too far from a major river.
According to the Met Office, 1,695.9mm of rain fell from October 2022 to March 2024, the highest amount for any 18-month period in England since the organisation started collecting comparable data in 1836. Scientists have said climate breakdown is likely to cause more intense periods of rain in the UK.
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Serbia joins central and southern Europe regional energy exchange as part of preparations for CBAM
Toxic gas, livelihoods under threat and power outages: how a seaweed causes chaos in Caribbean
Leaders have failed to tackle invasion of sargassum, which may have a bumper year in 2024
Schools evacuated due to toxic gas. Smelly tap water at home. Tourist operators and fishers struggling to stay in business. Job losses. Power outages affecting tens of thousands of people at a time. Dangerous health problems. Even lives lost.
Such crises were some of the consequences of sargassum seaweed in the islands of the Caribbean in 2023, which have become common in the region since 2011, when massive blooms began inundating the shorelines in the spring and summer months.
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