Rich nations accused of delaying loss and damage fund with slow payments
Mon 14 Jul 2025
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HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance
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Campaigners condemn ‘troubling’ move that follows departure of six of largest US banks after Trump’s election.
Where next for carbon removals? Understanding a market that could prove critical to net zero goals
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Experts in finance, carbon capture, and energy-from-waste discuss the emerging market for engineered and nature-based carbon removals during BusinessGreen's latest webinar.
EU wants to see China take more ambitious climate action
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The world needs China to show more leadership on climate action, highlighting the importance of cutting planet-heating emissions and reducing the Chinese economy's reliance on coal.
Millions of tons of tiny plastic particles are polluting the ocean, study finds
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At least 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics are estimated to be floating in the North Atlantic Ocean, weighing more than all wild land mammals combined.
Sand, dust storms affect about 330 million people due to climate change: UN
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Nearly half the global population has also been exposed to dust levels exceeding WHO safety thresholds.
How heatwaves and soaring temperatures are changing tourism across Europe
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With unbearable heat and a worsening climate crisis becoming the norm, could the yearly summer holiday be a thing of the past?
Auditors can’t save carbon offsets
Mon 14 Jul 2025
The theory behind carbon offset projects is appealing. The reality has been less encouraging.
Rivers in southwest China breach warning levels, with thousands evacuated
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Twenty-five rivers in southwestern China exceeded safe levels, after more than 10,000 people were evacuated as the remnants of former typhoon Danas converged with East Asian monsoon rains.
Over 90 arrests made in global crackdown on environmental crime in the Amazon Basin
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin.
1500 deaths in the recent European heatwave were due to climate change
Mon 14 Jul 2025
We now have the ability to rapidly assess the death toll of climate change after extreme heat – a first-of-its-kind analysis has shown that it nearly tripled the death toll from the most recent European heatwave
