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Albanese Government vows to secure future of Australia's food supply chain by developing new national strategy
6 Mar 2025
The Albanese Government has promised to help secure the future of Australia's food supply chain by developing a new national strategy if it wins the election.
Countries fail again to decide timing of key IPCC climate science reports
5 Mar 2025
China, Saudi Arabia and India pushed back against a proposal to align the IPCC flagship reports with the timeline of the global stocktake of climate action.
EU proposes more relaxed CO2 target compliance for new cars
5 Mar 2025
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced she will propose a more relaxed three-year timeframe for the automotive industry to comply with the bloc's CO2 standards, instead of annual targets.
US: EPA calls for watchdog to probe $20 billion climate fund
5 Mar 2025
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is at the center of a fight between the Trump administration and environmental groups seeking access to the funds that Congress approved under its massive climate legislation.
China plays key role on climate change, may be looked to for additional leadership, COP30 president says
5 Mar 2025
China has a very important role to play in tackling climate change and others may look to the Asian country for additional leadership in the field, COP30 President-Designate Andre Aranha Correa do Lago said on Thursday.
Japan's worst wildfire in half a century spreads
5 Mar 2025
Firefighters were Tuesday battling Japan's worst wildfire in half a century, which has left one dead and forced the evacuation of nearly 4,000 local residents.
As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew
5 Mar 2025
As Earth's warming climate causes problems for big coffee producers, some are looking to a rarely cultivated species that may stand up better to drought and heat. It's Excelsa, which is native to South Sudan and a handful of other African countries.
UK: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 could cut household costs
4 Mar 2025
The UK should cut its emissions to 87% below 1990 levels by 2040 under its seventh five-yearly "carbon budget", according to official advice from the Climate Change Committee (CCC).
China missed key climate target last year
4 Mar 2025
China missed a key climate target in 2024 and emissions in the world's second-largest economy rose slightly as coal remained dominant despite record renewable additions, official data showed Friday.
Risk of financial fallout may deter Argentina from leaving Paris Agreement
4 Mar 2025
Argentina's President Javier Milei has expressed his will to leave the global climate pact, but key trade partners and foreign aid may stand in the way.
Trump's firings at US weather agency will put lives at risk, scientists say
4 Mar 2025
"There will be people who die in extreme weather events and related disasters who would not have otherwise."
Tesla's plummeting sales risk lucrative emissions credit earnings
4 Mar 2025
CEO Elon Musk has angered European customers and governments, undercutting his EV brand.
Meet Chonkus: the CO2-chomping alga that could help tackle the climate crisis
4 Mar 2025
Chonkus may sound like a champion Sumo wrestler but it is the nickname for a superpower strain of microbe that absorbs lots of CO2 relative to its size and stores it in its large cells.
Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate
3 Mar 2025
Earth's plants and soils reached peak carbon dioxide sequestration in 2008 but proportion absorbed has been declining since, study finds.
Big EU countries push expanded carbon border tax to help repay Covid debt
3 Mar 2025
France, Italy and Poland support the move, but others fear it might prompt Donald Trump to retaliate in anger.
COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the resumed UN biodiversity conference in Rome
3 Mar 2025
Countries have agreed at the resumed COP16 talks in Rome to a strategy for "mobilising" at least $200bn per year by 2030 to help developing countries conserve biodiversity.
Trump's war on climate science is pushing us into a dystopian future
3 Mar 2025
US President Donald Trump's latest war on the climate includes withdrawing support for any research that mentions the word.
Glacial melting is accelerating, driving sea level rise and depleting freshwater: study
3 Mar 2025
Accelerating glacial melting is causing the world's oceans to rise year after year and is causing a loss of regional freshwater, new research led by scientists at the University of Zürich shows.
From drill to grill: Continued fossil fuel use puts us all in the hot seat
3 Mar 2025
The Climate Council is warning that Australia's biggest cities could face dangerously hot temperatures, unless action is taken to slow down climate change. The Council has released a 'heat map' which also shows that continuing to cut climate pollution can safeguard Australians from the worst impacts of soaring heat.
The far right just made huge gains in a country once seen as a climate champion. It's a pattern happening across the world
28 Feb 2025
Germany was once seen as a climate champion, setting ambitious targets to slash planet-heating pollution.
US officials absent from global climate forums during Trump 2.0
28 Feb 2025
US officials have missed recent international climate forums sparking concerns about a potentially significant shift from Donald Trump's first term.
Countries use more land for golf courses than for solar or wind energy: study
28 Feb 2025
The amount of land needed for renewable energy projects is sometimes criticised, but a new study points out that, in countries like the United Kingdom and the United States, much more land gets allocated for golf courses than renewable energy facilities.
China aims to eliminate severe air pollution this year
28 Feb 2025
China aims to effectively eliminate severe air pollution by the end of 2025, a senior environment official said, as authorities ramp up efforts in pollution control and emissions reduction in the "battle for blue skies."
Kerala's early heat surge signals climate shift
28 Feb 2025
Kerala, known for its clear skies and balmy weather during the early part of the year, which attracts tourists, has been grappling with an early start of unusually hot weather this season. Scientists attribute this to a mix of local weather conditions and long-term climate change impacts.
America's "first car-free neighborhood" is going pretty good, actually?
28 Feb 2025
Since breaking ground in 2021, Culdesac Tempe has had its share of detractors and skeptics. But none of them live there.
Companies urged to pay into new UN fund to help protect nature
27 Feb 2025
Companies who use the genetic coding of the natural world to design products ranging from weight-loss drugs to cosmetics faced renewed calls on Tuesday to help pay to protect it as a dedicated fund was launched at a U.N. conference in Rome.
Nauru sells citizenship to help fund relocations as sea levels rise
27 Feb 2025
A new 'golden passport' scheme aims to raise funds to relocate people inland as climate change raises sea levels.
How much do rich nations owe Africa for climate damage?
27 Feb 2025
Wealthy nations owe African countries some 50 times more for climate damage than the debt Africa owes them, ActionAid report says.
Europe's impossible choice: Which industries should survive the green transition?
27 Feb 2025
One German aluminum factory decided to go green and close its smelter. The EU faces a similar choice, with Europe's future at stake.
RFK Jr., onetime environmentalist, kills climate change programs
27 Feb 2025
In 1999, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer, was named by Time magazine as a "hero of the planet" for his pioneering work to clean up America's waterways. On February 14 of this year, his second day as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, he ended HHS funding for climate change and health programs at the National Institutes of Health, a move that will likely terminate this work.
Coffee grounds and mushroom spores can be 3D printed into a compostable plastic alternative, researchers say
27 Feb 2025
In a new study, researchers have made a promising discovery: a compostable material that can serve as an alternative to plastic. The material is made from a combination of used coffee grounds and spores from Reishi mushrooms that are made into a paste, then 3D printed.
EU to make most companies exempt from carbon border levy, draft shows
26 Feb 2025
The European Commission will propose exemptions for "the vast majority" of companies covered by the European Union's carbon border levy on the grounds that they produce only 1% of emissions in the scheme, a draft proposal showed.
In Rome, talks to protect Earth's biodiversity resume with money topping the agenda
26 Feb 2025
An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda.
After US retreat, countries clash over who should make up Green Climate Fund shortfall
26 Feb 2025
At this week's board meeting, Germany and Sweden encouraged wealthier developing nations to step up - an idea rejected by Saudi Arabia.
Greenpeace risks bankruptcy at US pipeline trial
26 Feb 2025
Greenpeace has said that a lawsuit brought by an energy company over the Dakota Access Pipeline could wipe it out.
In Trump's shadow, IPCC set to make key decision on timing of climate science review
26 Feb 2025
With the US not expected to show up at the IPCC meeting, countries have a final chance to agree whether assessment reports could inform the next UN scorecard of climate action.
BP to ditch renewables goals and return focus to fossil fuels
26 Feb 2025
BP's chief executive will scrap a target to increase renewable generation 20-fold by 2030, returning the focus to fossil fuels, as part of a strategy shift announced on Wednesday to tackle investor concerns over earnings, two sources told Reuters.
Countries warn against delaying global climate assessment after US exit
25 Feb 2025
The European Union, Britain and climate-vulnerable developing countries have raised concerns about delays to the next global assessment of climate change, by the U.N.'s climate science panel, after the U.S. administration withdrew from the process.
Conservative election victory set to narrow climate policy focus in Germany
25 Feb 2025
Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz' conservatives have won Germany's snap election, while the current government parties booked significant losses, indicating a reduced focus on climate policies in a future government.
More than half of nations fail to protect 30% of land and sea in UN nature plans
25 Feb 2025
More than half of countries have not committed to protecting 30% of their land and sea for nature by 2030 in plans submitted to the UN - despite signing a global agreement to do so less than three years ago.
Nuclear path would blow out Australia's emissions targets, new modelling shows
25 Feb 2025
Australia's peak climate body has published new modelling showing the Coalition's proposed nuclear pathway would result in an additional 2 billion tonnes of emissions in the atmosphere.
How Trump gutted climate policy in 30 days
25 Feb 2025
President Donald Trump's promised assault on federal climate policies is sweeping across Washington, state capitals and private industry with a speed that's surprising even some of his supporters and critics -- and could leave an impact on the planet's future well after his presidency.
Britain's net zero economy 'booming'
25 Feb 2025
Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security.
South African leader urges unity to tackle global challenges
24 Feb 2025
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has told G20 foreign ministers that a commitment to multilateralism and international law is vital to solving global crises.
Renewable energy is a less costly, more efficient climate solution than carbon capture, study finds
24 Feb 2025
The benefits of investing in clean energy, including solar, wind, geothermal and hydropower, make renewables a more cost-effective option compared to carbon capture technology, according to a new study.
Why the Science Based Targets initiative should not allow carbon offsets
24 Feb 2025
The Science Based Targets initiative is currently reviewing its Corporate Net-Zero Standard. In April 2024, SBTi's Board of Trustees announced that carbon offsets "could function as an additional tool to tackle climate change".
The Tories set the UK net zero target. Now they are dumping it
24 Feb 2025
The 2050 goal "leaves us economically worse off," Conservative energy chief Andrew Bowie said.
US to pull delegation from UN climate science meeting
24 Feb 2025
State Department officials won't participate in next week's meeting of the top UN climate science panel, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.
How 'digital sequence information' can generate funds for biodiversity
24 Feb 2025
Public and private databases - headquartered mainly in the global north - often source this genetic information from plants, animals, bacteria and fungi found in biodiversity-rich, global-south countries.
Funding for Pacific Islands to help manage tuna threatened by climate change
21 Feb 2025
The New Zealand government is stumping up a $25 million grant to help 14 Pacific Island nations manage one third of the world's tuna in the face of the climate crisis.
Making polluters pay could fix Australia’s climate problem – and its budget
Wed 4 Feb 2026
A new report shows how making polluters pay will not only diminish the threat from climate change, but it can also help restore the budget and the economy.
US court blocks Trump halt on last of five suspended offshore wind projects
Wed 4 Feb 2026
All five offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration in December can resume construction following a federal judge's ruling on Monday that cleared Denmark's Orsted to proceed with its Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York.
‘Rush’ for new coal in China hits record high in 2025 as climate deadline looms
Wed 4 Feb 2026
Proposals to build coal-fired plants in China reached a record high in 2025, finds a new study.
EU adopts first-ever standard for carbon removal projects
Wed 4 Feb 2026
The European Commission announced the adoption of its first set of voluntary certification methodologies for permanent carbon removals, aimed at providing clear standards for carbon removal technologies, to enable certification and investment in projects that permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Wales council to buy and demolish homes prone to flooding
Wed 4 Feb 2026
A row of homes in a village in south Wales is to be bought by a local authority and demolished as they can no longer be protected from flooding caused by the climate crisis.
The climate and energy implication hidden in Mark Carney’s Davos speech
26 Jan 2026
In a speech bound for the history books, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described a “rupture” in the world order and called for middle powers like Canada to stand up to bullies.
Declared a terrorist for bringing renewable power to Philippine communities
Mon 2 Feb 2026
Accusing activists of having links to terrorism has led to non-profit funds being frozen and local climate projects being delayed or scrapped.
Pacific fisheries summit gives a boost to albacore and seabirds
19 Dec 2025
Much of the world’s albacore tuna catch, which usually ends up in a can, comes from the southwestern Pacific Ocean, where fishery managers just passed a new set of conservation rules.
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
18 Dec 2025
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say.
Climate change could lead to 500,000 ‘additional’ malaria deaths in Africa by 2050
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Climate change could lead to half a million more deaths from malaria in Africa over the next 25 years, according to new research.
Argentina fires ravage pristine Patagonia forests, fueling criticism of Milei’s austerity
Wed 4 Feb 2026
The wildfires, among the worst to hit the drought-stricken Patagonia region in decades, have devastated more than 45,000 hectares (174 square miles) of Argentina’s forests in the last month and a half, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and tourists.
UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns
Tue 3 Feb 2026
The United Nations is at risk of "imminent financial collapse" due to member states not paying their fees, the body's head has warned.
