The European Commission’s €1.8 trillion budget proposal for 2028–2034 promises climate ambition and crisis resilience, but critics warn it risks sidelining nature and sustainable farming in favour of bundled green targets and industrial priorities.
As the UK races toward net zero, a quiet crisis is unfolding: we don’t yet have the workforce to get us there. That was the urgent message from Santander UK’s recent roundtable at the Climate Innovation Forum on green skills, where leaders from business, education, and government gathered to confront the challenge and imagine what comes next.
In a major move to bridge the biodiversity funding gap, the European Commission has launched a new roadmap to develop a market for nature credits, seeking to reward those who actively contribute to ecosystem restoration and conservation.
August 2024 was the joint-warmest August globally (together with August 2023), with an average surface air temperature of 16.82°C, 0.71°C above the 1991-2020 average for the same month, according to data from Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
Digital Catapult, part of the Catapult Network of world-leading technology and innovation centres established by Innovate UK, has announced its first International Supply Chain Accelerator, set to transform global supply chains through the application of deep tech solutions.
Africa bears an increasingly heavy burden from climate change and disproportionately high costs for essential climate adaptation, according to a new report from the WMO
Sixth renewable energy auction delivers a record of 133 clean energy projects, enough to power the equivalent of 11 million homes.
As we enter September, momentum is building towards COP29, which will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11th-22nd November. A series of events focusing on accelerating action to tackle the climate crisis will be held by leading organisations globally across the month
At a meeting in Nigeria this week, nine African cities pledged to cut carbon emissions to zero within the next three decades.
A new report has laid the groundwork for Australia to become a clean energy superpower.
There has been a significant growth in the availability of satellite data in recent years, providing access to information on air quality, soil composition, ocean currents, and seismic activity.
The new set of standards on aircraft emissions could impact the larger planes built by the likes of Boeing and Airbus.
A new survey by the Global Electricity Initiative has revealed that power utility CEOs consider a global climate vital to their businesses’ success
A recent WWF international report identifies the asset value of the world’s oceans at $24 trillion- the equivalent of the seventh largest global economy. The accuracy of this however is certainly questionable…
The launch of SIF15 at Paris Climate Week will unite business leaders 200 days ahead of the event, encouraging early conversation amongst 100 high level private and public delegates
According to official statistics, access to electricity only reaches 1,000 of 11,000 villages in Cameroon, and within Sub-Saharan Africa only 32 per cent of the overall population have access to electricity.
It has recently been confirmed that there is a strong possibility that an El Nino event is going to impact global weather this year for the first time since the turn of the decade. Coming as the result of weakening trade winds over the tropical pacific, the result is heavy rains in some regions and zero rains in others. According to the Met office, this brings a very real chance of “major climatic impacts”.
