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A group of not-for-profits on Wednesday launched a free platform that gives financials access to comparable data on deforestation in the portfolios of more than 2,000 major companies worldwide.

Sustainable finance researchers have estimated huge financial returns for businesses across Europe if they align with the upcoming Nature Restoration Law and called for them to take action to capitalise on opportunities.

Removing leaves will mean they can be replanted or shredded for animal feed and could reduce emissions

The pineapple has been dethroned: Sainsbury’s has announced it will start selling a crownless version of the tropical fruit from Wednesday.

The spiky, green leaves that grow from the top of the plant are a unique feature of the exotic fruit. But, says the supermarket, they are typically thrown away by customers, contributing to up to 700 tonnes of food waste a year.

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Ørsted has become the first offshore wind company to begin trialling giant autonomous drones to transport cargo to giant wind turbines.

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Indonesia has left the retirement of its captive coal-fired power stations off its energy transition plans and said Wednesday it would need more time to develop a strategy to shut them down and replace them with clean sources under its $20 billion Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP).

Kevin Jordan, whose home is 5 metres from the cliff edge in Norfolk, says government’s shortcomings breach his human rights

When Kevin Jordan bought his seaside home in Hemsby, Norfolk, he was told it would be safe for a century. In the decade since, 17 of his neighbours’ homes have had to be demolished, or have been swept away into the waters of the North Sea. His is now just 5 metres from the fast-crumbling cliff, isolated and unreachable by car after part of the road collapsed into the North Sea.

The people of Hemsby would seem to be natural beneficiaries of official policies to adapt to the climate crisis. Under the Climate Change Act 2008, the government is required to produce a national adaptation programme every five years, setting out plans protect communities in the UK from the extreme heat, flooding and coastal erosion expected as the climate breaks down.

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The Shanghai government sold 1 million carbon allowances under its emissions trading scheme at this week's auction, with the auction clearing a shade above current secondary market levels but well above the sale's price floor amid robust demand.

The EU has confirmed that two North African ports will be excluded from calculating emissions obligations for ships under the bloc’s ETS, part of detailed rules adopted this week for including maritime in the bloc’s carbon market from next year.

Pakistan along with international partners has launched the Supporting Preparedness for Article 6 Cooperation (SPAR6C) programme to help build the country’s carbon market and facilitate access to international carbon finance.

A major trading company in Japan has teamed up with a Singapore-based project developer to secure carbon credits from mangrove plantations in Indonesia, as part of a broader plan to expand its global carbon portfolio.

As another big climate conference looms and global ‘loss and damage’ takes hold, we must keep pressure on the biggest emitters

• Prof Saleemul Huq died on 28 October, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was 71. This is his final piece of writing

Prof Saleemul Huq OBE and I wrote and submitted this article before his untimely death on Saturday 28 October, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Huq was a visionary and steadfast leader on climate justice, a champion of developing countries at climate negotiations, an advocate for the global poor, and a source of inspiration to thousands worldwide. He continually pushed for “loss and damage” measures, whereby the nations that emit the bulk of greenhouse gasses help address the needs of lower-emitting nations who nonetheless bear the brunt of the climate crisis. A loss and damage fund was finally achieved at Cop27, but it needs strong advocates to ensure it is followed and expanded.

His sudden death is a blow to the global south, and to all those who work towards climate justice. Here, we touch on our concerns for the upcoming Cop28 summit, and the future of the loss and damage project, and call for greater concerted efforts on climate accountability. Farhana Sultana

Farhana Sultana is a professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York

Saleemul Huq was the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Independent University, Bangladesh

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A company linked to the royal family in Dubai has entered into a strategic partnership to promote a Brazilian startup that issues environmental tokens to landowners encompassing soil, water, biodiversity, and carbon.

The Australian government’s voluntary climate certification scheme has frozen applications from businesses wanting to use credits from the controversial Kariba REDD project to offset their emissions.

Audit finds ‘little to no improvement’ in health of sea between 2016 and 2021, as Swedish coastguard battles oil spill

The Baltic Sea faces “critical challenges” due to the climate crisis and degradation of biodiversity, a report has said, as Sweden’s coastguard battled to contain the impact of an oil spill off the country’s southern shore.

In the most comprehensive audit of its kind to date, experts at the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (Helcom) said on Tuesday there had been “little to no improvement” in the health of the body of water between 2016 and 2021.

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Durham University research found warnings of environmental or health impacts reduced choice of meals containing meat by 7-10%

People are used to seeing stark warnings on tobacco products alerting them about the potentially deadly risks to health. Now a study suggests similar labelling on food could help them make wiser choices about not just their health, but the health of the planet.

The research, by academics at Durham University, found that warning labels including a graphic image – similar to those warning of impotence, heart disease or lung cancer on cigarette packets – could reduce selections of meals containing meat by 7-10%.

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Roy Hill Mines, owned by climate skeptic and renewables doubter Gina Rinehart, unveils a bright pink electric locomotive powered by a 7MWh battery.

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Normally, many bushfires ease overnight, as temperatures fall and moisture in the air rises. But these are not normal times, as Queensland’s early-season fires are showing Calum Cunningham, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania Grant Williamson, Research Fellow in Environmental Science, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

"Making more things here:" SunDrive gets federal funding boost towards commercial production of its lower-cost, high efficiency solar cells, on Australian soil.

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Carbon prices worldwide are not adequate to tackle climate change and need to rise swiftly and be integrated into a multi-faceted strategy in order make a significant impact in curbing emissions, a new study warns.

The bulk payment covers everything the huge transmission project will need to get to full construction, from workers camps to equipment like transformers.

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