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Climate Action

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.

09 June 2025

Regenerative Agriculture: Ensuring Resilience

Agriculture has undergone profound transformation over the past century, driven by the urgent need to feed a fast-growing global population. Innovations such as synthetic fertilisers, pesticides, and the development of high-yield varieties (HYVs) significantly improved productivity and crop yields and led to what is known as the Green Revolution. However, this progress came at a serious environmental and social cost.

08 April 2025

One Quarter of Freshwater Animals at Risk of Extinction

The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species to date has revealed that 24% of the world’s freshwater fish, dragonfly, damselfly, crab, crayfish and shrimp species are at high risk of extinction, according to an analysis published in Nature. The IUCN co-authored study recommends targeted action to prevent further extinctions and calls for governments and industry to use this data in water management and policy measures.

09 January 2025

COP29 – Week Two Summary and Final Outcome

The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) officially ended at 5:31am on Sunday 24 November, 35 hours after initially planned. The road to COP29 was not an easy one, and its conclusion perhaps leaves more questions unanswered than answered.

26 November 2024

Agri-Food Systems Summit Highlights

The Agri-Food Systems Summit brought together global leaders, farmers, business innovators, and policymakers to tackle the pressing challenges of food systems transformation, to both adapt to and mitigate climate change, at COP29. Chair of the Summit, Jake Fiennes, Director of Holkham National Nature Reserve and General Manager at Conservation Holkham Estate, led a packed one-day program, where participants engaged in dynamic panel discussions, fireside chats, and the Future Food Systems Hackathon, giving every voice in the room a say. Attendees shared cutting-edge solutions, challenged conventional thinking, and forged connections across sectors to accelerate action. From innovative financing models to farmer-led pathways to sustainability, the summit spotlighted the bold ideas needed to ensure food systems are equitable, resilient, and climate-smart.

22 November 2024

COP29 – Transforming Agri-Food Systems

COP29’s Food, Water and Agriculture Day shined light on the transformative power of agrifood systems to drive emissions reductions. However, efforts must be pushed from both sides, mitigation and adaptation, as these systems are particularly susceptible to the impacts of climate change.

20 November 2024

Engaging the Business Community at COP29 – Agri-Food Systems

Global climate goals are unattainable without agrifood system solutions. The private sector can play a key role in financing and scaling solutions that lower environmental impact, build resilience, support adaptation and reduce GHG emissions, whilst ensuring food security.

01 November 2024

Bioenergy – bridging renewable energy development and biodiversity protection

As the UN Biodiversity COP16 continues for its fourth day, the 28th IRENA Council convenes in Abu Dhabi ahead of COP29 to assess global progress in the last year. Bioenergy sits at the interface of these conversations; however robust standards must be put in place to ensure clean energy does not come at the cost of biodiversity.

24 October 2024

What to expect at COP29 – ensuring a just transition

As governments look to ensure their next round of NDCs are conducive with a just transition, at COP29 the Baku Initiative on Human Development for Climate Resilience will be launched, establishing a strategic global collaboration on human development and climate change.

18 October 2024

National alternative protein innovation centre launches

The UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Innovate UK have invested £15 million into the National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC). The NAPIC is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Leeds, the James Hutton Institute, Imperial College London and the University of Sheffield.

28 August 2024