The UK’s environmental watchdog has raised alarms over the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, warning that proposed changes could weaken nature protections and undermine efforts to meet biodiversity targets.
_400_250_80_c1.jpg)
Earlier this week in Paris, Climate Action in partnership with UNEP FI, mobilised the nature and sustainable finance community for two energising days of dialogue, insight, and collaboration.
In a major step toward aligning climate finance with Indigenous-led conservation, a new $50 million outcome bond has been launched to support forest protection efforts in the Amazon, led by Everland in partnership with BNP Paribas.
_400_250_c1.png)
Dave Bircher, Director of Growth at WeForest, spoke to Climate Action in the lead up to the Nature Finance Forum Europe, taking place on April 28th in Paris.
Climate change presents an increasingly growing risk to the global economy, threatening long-term prosperity and the exposure of the financial system. In recent years, nature has inched from the periphery of discussions on risk, with growing recognition on nature-related dependencies. Yet, there is still major steps to be taken to price nature into the financial system.
As Earth Day 2025 calls for the world to unite behind the clean energy transition, a pressing question takes centre stage: can we accelerate climate action without jeopardising energy security or are we framing the challenge all wrong?
On April 11th, after years of negotiations, countries reached a landmark deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from global shipping, setting mandatory fuel standards and introducing an industry-wide carbon pricing mechanism.
A new wave of hydrogen powered projects have been shortlisted today to help cut emissions and create thousands of jobs in the UK’s industrial heartlands.
New IEA report highlights recent progress and emerging risks across the energy innovation landscape worldwide, with investment trends uneven across different regions and sectors.
A new review commissioned by Steve Reed, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Dan Corry, former No 10 advisor under Gordon Brown, makes 29 recommendations for ‘streamlining’ regulation.
In a world grappling with climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, one fundamental driver often goes unnoticed: resource consumption. Over the past 50 years, global material use has surged by more than three times, with high-income countries responsible for disproportionately high environmental impacts. This linear approach - extract, use, dispose - has dominated economies for centuries. But the tide is turning. The circular economy presents an opportunity to redefine economic growth by designing out waste, keeping products and materials in use for longer, and regenerating natural systems.
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs is proposing to extend the ban on peatland burning to protect habitats, cut carbon emissions, and improve air and water quality.
With 585 GW of capacity additions, renewables accounted for over 90% of total power expansion globally in 2024.
Even demand in advanced economies is rising again after years of declines, with rapid growth of electricity worldwide driving up consumption of renewables, gas, coal and nuclear.
The Western Forest will span across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, and Somerset.
As we enter unchartered territory as a result of human-induced climate change, the lifeline forests provide must not be understated nor underestimated. As well as being crucial ecosystems for food security, they are a pivotal tool for both climate change mitigation and adaptation.