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Moves to roll back some of the bloc’s most ambitious measures come after economic concern from member states
Amazon and Meta face biggest proposed update on measuring emissions in a decade
Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs
Introduction The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has advanced governance reforms through Japan’s Corporate Governance Code and related initiatives, with the aim of supporting sustainable growth and enhancing corporate value over the mid- to long-term. In April 2022, TSE restructured its market segments to provide an attractive cash equity market that underpins the sustainable growth and […]
Sustainability has undergone a profound transformation over the past two decades. What began as a moral movement—rooted in reputation management and risk mitigation—has increasingly become a strategic business imperative. The latest annual report published by the UN Global Compact and Accenture underlines how the business case for sustainability leadership to be at the core of a […]
The UK plans to make it easier to fine water companies that harm the environment, ramping up pressure on firms blamed for chronic sewage spills.
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which is fueling the US economy and outpacing the S&P 500.
The European Union plans to propose measures to limit the impact of its new carbon market, hoping to ease concerns among national governments about the cost of cutting emissions before a key debate on the bloc’s climate target.
France and Spain are calling on the European Union to stick with plans to ban combustion engine cars in the bloc after 2035, at odds with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz ahead of a meeting of leaders in Brussels this week.
The European Union proposed granting companies six months of leeway to comply with its landmark law to curb deforestation across the world, rejecting a longer delay despite industry complaints.
Spiro, a electric mobility company that operates a battery-swapping network across six African nations, has clinched a $100 million investment round, one of the continent’s biggest for the industry.
Europe needs deeper capital markets to stem its response to climate change, according to European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde.
South African actuaries launched the nation’s first country-specific climate index as experts seek to manage risks and losses brought about by an increasing frequency of droughts, fires, floods and other extreme weather events.
Founded by SpaceX alumni, Arbor Energy’s technology runs on natural gas and uses carbon capture.
Germany’s plan to build a fleet of gas-fired power plants may be delayed by a local clean-tech startup, which has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission.
‘The objectives of the Paris agreement are slipping further out of reach,’ say researchers from LSENo major bank has yet committed to stop funding new oil and gas fields or coal capacity, research has found.Most banks that have recently updated their climate policies have weakened them, according to the research by the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Continue reading...
Government consults on allowing regulator to use lower civil standard of proof and introducing automatic penaltiesWater companies in England could face more, and automatic, fines for sewage dumping under new Environment Agency powers.The government is consulting on allowing the regulator to use a lower, civil, standard of proof instead of the higher criminal standard, for minor to moderate environmental offences. Continue reading...
Of the 2m flood-prone houses across the country, at least 70% have had values reduced, a new report by Climate Council and PropTrack has foundFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen Warwick Irwin returned home after a week away, he was shocked by the ruin inside.It was February 2022 and two days earlier his North Lismore house had flooded to the ceiling. “It was quite a mind-blowing experience when I got into the house when the water went down.” Continue reading...
Climate crisis contributing to spread of diseases as hunting industry takes a hit from growing number of dead deerWhen landowner and hunter James Barkhurst went scouting his property about a month ago to assess the local deer population ahead of the fall hunting season, he was left in shock.“I’ve seen about 14 dead in less than a mile stretch. There’s a lot of does, big bucks and even fawns. You smell the dead everywhere,” he says. “And I haven’t really went deep into the woods.” Continue reading...
While Nigel Farage promotes retro plans to reopen coalmines, will he really tell thousands of clean energy workers to leave their well-paid, local jobs?This government is bad at proclaiming what it’s for. But to find out, follow the money. Its boldest investment is in green energy, designed to create prodigious returns in economic growth, employment, training, climate action and more. So far it has been hard to sell. Wafty talk of greenness passes most people by, and “whose growth is it, anyway?” is a realistic question in a country of stagnant pay and public decay. But, this week, Ed Miliband put flesh on the green words, making jobs and projects concrete. A very big number of green jobs – 400,000 by 2030 – are set to be created in 31 “priority occupations”, from welders to production managers, plumbers and joiners, everywhere from Centrica’s £35m state-of-the-art training academy in Lutterworth to Teesside’s net-zero decarbonisation cluster.This is what a Labour industrial strategy should look like. Nigel Farage’s retro campaign for this week’s Caerphilly byelection promises to reopen Welsh coalmines. But well-paid, clean, green-energy jobs within their home districts are what Miliband’s Doncaster North constituents want, the minister tells me, not sending young people down reopened mines. Government figures show wind, nuclear and electricity jobs pay more than most – the average advertised salary in the wind sector is £51,000 a year, against an average £37,000. Unions, once sceptical and fearful of losing jobs in unionised industries, now sign up with guarantees that any new plant getting grants must “support greater trade union recognition” and a fair work charter.Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Research in the U.S. Southwest could expand lifesaving efforts for hazards that follow wildfires across the globe.
