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Koalas in trouble, land clearing at speed – nature in New South Wales is not well. Now the government is proposing significant changes to its ineffective biodiversity laws. Hugh Possingham, Professor of Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland Carolyn Hogg, Deputy Director, Sydney Environment Institute; Co-Lead Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group, University of Sydney Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

With buyers securing expensive, large-scale advance purchase agreements for engineered and nature-based carbon removals (CDR), carbon insurers are thinking beyond non-delivery policies and cash payouts to begin guaranteeing credit durability.

The UN body mandated to determine rules governing the Paris Agreement's carbon crediting mechanism has inched closer to providing a basis text for discussion at COP29, in one of the last opportunities to finalise recommendations ahead of the summit in November.

Some 65 companies are lining up to buy the first sovereign Article 6 carbon credits endorsed by the Coalition of Rainforest Nations (CfRN), which should be ready for sale in September or October, the organisation told Carbon Pulse Thursday.

Driven out by hunting and habitat loss, the snow-white birds are now nesting and breeding in a few pockets in England

With their long, spoon-shaped beaks, it is perhaps little surprise that the RSPB has nicknamed the offspring of a spoonbill a “teaspoon”.

It has been a bumper year for the snow-white wading birds, which have been found nesting and breeding in Cambridgeshire for the first time since the 17th century.

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The coal mine promises to be net zero but a recent major ruling has cast doubt on its future.

The coal mine promises to be net zero but a recent major ruling has cast doubt on its future.

Verra will pause the review of new voluntary carbon methodology proposals until the first quarter of 2025 as it implements changes to its review process.

Union says members being ‘kept up at night’ over failure to commit to continue payments at current rate

Farmers are facing a “cliff edge” as the Labour government refuses to commit to maintaining the agriculture budget for England, the president of the National Farmers’ Union has said.

The issue is one of the first pressures Labour is facing over its tight fiscal rules, along with a rebellion on the party’s refusal to remove the two-child benefit cap.

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Industry, political groups and environmental NGOs largely welcomed Ursula Von der Leyen's re-appointment as European Commission President on Thursday, citing "continuity" and "stability" in Green Deal policies as reasons for optimism.

Organisers working to ensure safe environment for attenders in October after guerrillas’ warning of disruption

Colombian authorities have insisted it will be safe to attend a UN biodiversity summit in Cali later this year, after a dissident rebel group threatened to disrupt the event.

This week Central General Staff (EMC), a guerrilla faction that rejected the country’s 2016 peace agreement, said the UN nature summit Cop16 would “fail”, in a post on X addressed to the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro.

Find more age of extinction coverage here, and follow the biodiversity reporters Phoebe Weston and Patrick Greenfield on X for all the latest news and features.

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A US-based NGO active in carbon markets has teamed up with an investor to scale funding into nature-based carbon removal projects linked to farming land, they announced Thursday.

Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance

Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil climate campaign who conspired to cause gridlock on London’s orbital motorway have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms.

Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were found guilty last week of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for coordinating direct action protests on the M25 over four days in November 2022.

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A conservation finance group has held discussions on the measures needed to scale the emerging biodiversity credit markets, stressing the importance of advancing government efforts to regulate transactions at a global level.

Net zero policies, such as a consistent and strong carbon pricing growth out to 2050, could unlock significant economic growth for the EU and UK economies and bring forward net zero, according to a new report.

An Amsterdam-based company has launched a new direct air capture product designed to be suited to plug into any removal, storage, or utilisation project across different capacities and sectors.

A plan submitted for buying units representing habitat uplift, under England’s biodiversity net gain (BNG) scheme, could be the first of its kind, said a lawyer.

A French company developing bio-based acids for a range of applications from food preservatives to perfume says that its products carry an 81% lower carbon footprint than their petroleum-based counterparts, and could also store carbon depending on the final use case.

The new UK government needs to speed up the country’s emission reductions to make up for its predecessor’s slow-down, reversal, and delay of net zero policies - including a strengthening of its carbon trading system, the Climate Change Committee warned on Thursday. 

A subsidiary of large European energy firm EON plans to present a plan for crediting emissions reductions from battery storage projects at COP29 in November.