A Quick Guide to Carbon Market Integrity
Integrity is the backbone of effective carbon markets. This guide helps you understand the core criteria for assessing credit quality and driving real climate impact.
Global Energy Investment to Hit Record $3.3 Trillion in 2025
Global energy investment is on track to reach a record $3.3 trillion in 2025, with clean technologies leading the charge. Grid infrastructure and regional equity continue to be the key barriers to further progress.
Prioritising Climate Solutions: A New Asset Owner Framework to Guide Investment Towards 2°C
As the urgency to limit global warming to 2°C intensifies, investors are increasingly looking to climate solutions as both a lever for emissions reductions and an attractive investment opportunity. But achieving global climate goals requires more than allocating capital to low-carbon technologies. It demands deliberate, forward-looking investment strategies – ones that prioritise the most meaningful climate solutions and build the ecosystems needed to scale them.
Institutional Investors Committed to Sustainable Investment, BNP Paribas Survey Finds
The 2025 edition of BNP Paribas’ ESG survey reveals that institutional investors remain committed to sustainable investment, shifting toward thematic, impact-driven strategies amid a changing political and regulatory landscape.
Greenwashing: An AI Analysis of Corporate Sustainability Practices
Sustainability trends have become ubiquitous in the business world, mainly due to the attention ESG is receiving. To state the obvious, this is a positive trend as it helps push companies to consider their impact on the environment, employees, and customers and ensure their governance practices are sound. However, it also incentivizes actors in the business world to try to game the system through marketing campaigns to improve their reputation.
The NARIA framework: a national solution for biodiversity policy, reporting and finance
CreditNature invites governments to pioneer high-integrity nature markets and global biodiversity action through the adoption of the NARIA framework.
UK Government Accused of Breaking Nature Promises Over Controversial Planning Bill
The Wildlife Trusts and the RSPB have condemned Part 3 of Labour’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill, warning it threatens to undermine the UK's biodiversity goals by weakening protections for vital natural habitats
WHO Pandemic Agreement Marks Global Breakthrough, But Implementation Remains the Test
In a historic step towards strengthening global health security, 124 WHO member states have adopted a new Pandemic Agreement aimed at preventing future outbreaks and promoting equitable access to life-saving tools.
Oxford Scientists Create World’s Most Detailed River Map to Combat Flood Risk
Oxford researchers have developed a groundbreaking global river map that could transform how the world prepares for and responds to flooding in the face of climate change.
Europe’s Electricity Grid Holding Back Growth in Renewables, New Report Warns
Europe’s push for clean energy is being undermined by a power grid system unfit for the rapid growth of renewables, according to a new report exposing widespread delays, inefficiencies, and outdated planning across the continent.
Green Alliance: UK Must Pull the Methane ‘Emergency Brake’ to Avert Climate Crisis
A new report from Green Alliance calls on the UK government to urgently scale up methane reduction efforts, warning that bold, near-term action is essential to slow global warming and prevent dangerous climate tipping points.
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Nature Finance Forum Europe- Key Takeaways
The inaugural Nature Finance Forum Europe signalled a powerful shift in the financial world, uniting leaders across sectors to mainstream nature into economic decision-making and mobilise capital for a nature-positive future.
UK and Norway Sign Green Energy Pact to Power North Sea Transition
The UK and Norway have formalised a bold new partnership to accelerate clean energy development in the North Sea, as both nations seek to balance climate ambition with economic and industry headwinds.
Ørsted Halts Hornsea 4 Wind Farm Plans, Raising Concern Over UK’s 2030 Clean Energy Targets
Ørsted’s decision to pause development of the Hornsea 4 offshore wind project highlights the growing economic pressures facing the UK’s renewable energy rollout.
UK Environmental Watchdog Raises Concerns Over Planning Bill’s Impact on Nature Protection
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.
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Sustainable Finance in Paris
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.