UN approves carbon market safeguards to protect environment and human rights

Today 10:30am - Developers of carbon credit projects will have to carry out a risk assessment and minimise any social or environmental impacts.

Carbon removal no solution if world overshoots warming target, scientists say

Today 10:30am - Even greater efforts to strip carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will fail to avert climate change catastrophe as rising global temperatures threaten to cross a key threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius.

If renewable power becomes too cheap to meter, is that a climate win?

Today 10:30am - When any single climate fix seems too good to be true, it probably is.

UN carbon trading expert group agrees deal on market framework

Monday - A UN expert group has reached a compromise on key elements of a global carbon trading system, in a bid to resolve nearly a decade of talks on what is seen as an important tool for raising climate finance.

Marine carbon dioxide removal is about to go big

Monday - Following its Singaporean pilot project, carbon sequestration start-up Equatic aims to build a massive plant in Quebec.

Renewable energy to fall short of UN goal to triple by 2030, IEA says

Friday - Renewable energy sources are set to meet nearly half of all electricity demand by the end of the decade, but to fall short of a U.N. goal to triple capacity to reduce carbon emissions, an International Energy Agency report showed.

Why have hurricanes gone crazy?

Thursday - While hurricanes occur naturally, human-caused climate change is supercharging them and exacerbating the risk of major damage, writes Kevin Trenberth.

Researchers find a new use for biochar: filtering microplastics from farm soils

Thursday - In initial experiments, they found that the biochar was able to remove a striking 86% to 92% of the plastic particles from soil samples.

Hurricane Milton closes in on Florida as thousands flee

9 Oct 24 - Residents have been warned to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday night local time, with $1 trillion worth of commercial properties directly in its...

Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds

8 Oct 24 - New research challenges the idea that sending liquefied natural gas around the world is a cleaner alternative to burning coal.

COP16 host Colombia pushes for unified UN climate and nature pledges

8 Oct 24 - Colombia wants to write a unified climate and biodiversity pledge, seeking to combine efforts to protect nature with those to tackle climate change in United Nations talks.

Why we should price shipping emissions

8 Oct 24 - OPINION: While shipping is essential to the global economy, so is reducing the associated pollution. Requiring shipping companies to pay for their vessels’ greenhouse-gas emissions would go a long...

Indonesia proceeds with ambitious energy transition

8 Oct 24 - The U.S., other developed nations and private banks pledged $21.6 billion to the Just Energy Transition Partnership, generating cautious optimism. But financing has been slow, prompting concerns in...

Enough, already: why humanity must get on board with the concept of ‘sufficiency’

4 Oct 24 - Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.

‘Nowhere is safe’: shattered Asheville shows stunning reach of climate crisis

2 Oct 24 - The historic North Carolina city was touted as a climate ‘haven’ – a reputation deadly Hurricane Helene left in ruins.

Climate scientists sound alarm over Asia’s rising seas

2 Oct 24 - Scientists are urgently calling for global action, including reducing fossil fuel use, as the Pacific Ocean’s sea levels rise faster than the global average and the warming Indian Ocean drives...

Sorry, AI won’t ‘fix’ climate change

2 Oct 24 - OPINION: OpenAI’s Sam Altman claims AI will deliver an "Intelligence Age," but tech breakthroughs alone can't solve global warming.

Create ‘positive tipping points’ with climate mandates, governments urged

2 Oct 24 - Requiring key sectors to switch to clean energy by specific times could trigger benevolent cascades, a report claims.

Sloths may die out due to climate change

2 Oct 24 - The survival of sloths is under threat due to climate change, according to a new study.

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