The Democratic Republic of Congo's new land-use planning law marks an important step in ensuring fair and effective governance of natural resources – but planned oil developments pose a big threat to ...

Brazil's COP30 summit marks an inflection point for the UN process of negotiating climate action, as the first summit since the Paris Agreement became fully operational – and a moment to think about ...

Canada is a step closer to its first carbon capture cement plant, doling out C$10 million ($7.24 mln) in federal funding as a Calgary-based startup breaks ground on a commercial-scale plant in ...

The urgent need to reduce emissions is enough to justify releasing government debt brakes, an influential climate policy institute said in a report published on Wednesday.

Global power demand is forecast to rise much faster this year and next than over the past decade, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday, but power sector emissions should dip next ...

The EU's political commitment on Sunday to purchase $750 billion of US energy products in the next three years risks derailing the bloc’s decarbonisation efforts, according to researchers who called ...

The European steel industry is calling for a fundamental rethink of the EU’s 2040 climate policy framework, warning that current plans risk “deindustrialisation” unless reforms are made to support the ...

A carbon capture technology company currently operating in 12 countries is betting that its compact modular units can be the “solar panels” of industrial decarbonisation – cheap, scalable, and easy to ...

A Delaware-based holding company said Wednesday it will co-develop a large-scale afforestation carbon credit project in Ghana and launch a regulated exchange in Asia to trade tokenised carbon units.

A Dutch start-up certifier has secured conditional endorsement for its carbon insetting certifications, from a trade group that promotes best practices for voluntary carbon offsetting, the company ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) on Tuesday announced the introduction of a climate-related risk factor into its collateral framework, in a move expected to impact eurozone lending and accelerate the ...

The world needs to drastically reverse its huge expansion of coal mines if it is to reach net zero and keep warming at or below 1.5C, given the upstream methane bomb these mines represent, a think ...