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Last year was the world's warmest on record, bringing temperatures above a politically symbolic milestone.

Traders scrambled for reasons to explain the start of year weakness in California Carbon Allowances (CCA) as macro risk-off sentiment spread across broader markets.

This record-breaking heat is primarily driven by humanity’s burning of fossil fuels. The warming won’t stop until we reach net-zero emissions. Andrew King, Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne David Karoly, Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Highest recorded temperatures supercharged extreme weather – with worse to come, EU data shows

Climate breakdown drove the annual global temperature above the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the first time last year, supercharging extreme weather and causing “misery to millions of people”.

The average temperature in 2024 was 1.6C above preindustrial levels, data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) shows. That is a jump of 0.1C from 2023, which was also a record hot year and represents levels of heat never experienced by modern humans.

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Last year was confirmed by multiple scientific agencies on Friday as the warmest year on record and the first calendar year that average global temperatures have exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

The Australian government has yet to decide on reforms for its troubled voluntary corporate offsetting programme, even as speculation swirls that it may be scrapped altogether.

A US business lobby group this week sued the US EPA over two waivers recently granted to California, one of which allows the state to adopt a set of regulations that would ban the sale of new gasoline vehicles by 2035.

Understanding this migration is crucial. New developments proposed in Bass Strait, particularly offshore wind farms, may introduce challenges for migrating birds. Jessica Wei Zhou, Researcher in Ecology, Monash University Rohan Clarke, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Conservation volunteers could provide a crucial defence line against bird flu outbreaks in New Zealand by ensuring early detection. Brett David Gartrell, Professor in Wildlife Health, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Craig Brian Johnson, Professor of Veterinary Neurophysiology, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Alberta is doubling down on threats to take the Canadian federal government to court over its proposed fossil fuel extraction emissions cap, the provincial government said during a public comment period for the federal policy.

It’s possible for massive fires to burn in Australian cities. Planning needs to reflect this

As the Los Angeles wildfires rage, we are watching a disaster unfold in real time.

We knew this would happen eventually. We have moved from possible futures to these things now happening. The deferment has ended.

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New Mexico state officials are expected to wrap up rulemaking on the state’s new Clean Transportation Fuel Standard (CTFS) and kick off the programme’s first compliance period in Q4 2025, state officials said Thursday.

Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create

The world’s richest 1% have already used up their fair share of the global carbon budget for 2025, just 10 days into the year.

In less than a week and a half, the consumption habits of an individual from this monied elite had already caused, on average, 2.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, according to analysis by Oxfam GB. It would take someone from the poorest 50% of humanity three years to create the same amount of pollution.

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The richest 1% have already used up their entire carbon budget for 2025, only 10 days after the start of the new year, charity Oxfam said in new analysis published on Friday.

Oregon’s Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) on Thursday approved proposed changes to the state’s clean fuels scheme, effectively establishing feedstock attestation requirements and a reserve account for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects under the programme, among other updates.

The US Forest Service has withdrawn a proposal that was designed to help safeguard old-growth forests and conserve their carbon sink capacity, drawing cheers from some Republican members of Congress preferring local management of resources.

Germany can be CO2-neutral by 2045 while cutting energy costs, and raising household, company and government income - without assuming a higher carbon price or more national debt, suggested a think tank this week.

Several major international companies retired last year carbon credits with a vintage of 2010 or earlier, according to new Carbon Pulse analysis of registry data, though fewer and fewer older units are being retired across the voluntary market.

California-Quebec joint carbon market participants held a surplus of nearly 409 million excess allowances and offsets in Q4 2024, after emitters met their obligations for the fourth compliance period, according to WCI programme data published Tuesday.

Verra is struggling to impose sanctions on the proponents behind a group of discredited Chinese rice carbon projects, receiving compensation to date from just five of the 25 activities that were exposed last year for malpractice.