Staff at one of the world’s leading climate-certification organisations have called for the CEO and board members to resign after they announced plans to allow…
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Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade
Three redwoods tower over Wakehurst’s Elizabethan mansion like skyscrapers. Yet at 40 metres (131ft) high, these are almost saplings – not even 150 years old…
View More Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes
In the districts surrounding Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, most people have little idea their villages were at the centre of a multimillion-dollar carbon boom. Punctuated…
View More ‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemesMinisters could use loophole to water down carbon reduction commitments
Ministers will be able to water down the UK’s carbon reduction commitments if the government chooses to take advantage of a legal loophole. The UK…
View More Ministers could use loophole to water down carbon reduction commitmentsNuclear power output expected to break global records in 2025
Nuclear power generation is likely to break records in 2025 as more countries invest in reactors to fuel the shift to a low-carbon global economy,…
View More Nuclear power output expected to break global records in 2025Root and branch reform: if carbon markets aren’t working, how do we save our forests?
Keeping the world’s remaining forests standing is one of the most important environmental challenges of the 21st century. Humanity will not limit global heating to…
View More Root and branch reform: if carbon markets aren’t working, how do we save our forests?The new ‘scramble for Africa’: how a UAE sheikh quietly made carbon deals for forests bigger than UK
The rights over vast tracts of African forest are being sold off in a series of huge carbon offsetting deals that cover an area of…
View More The new ‘scramble for Africa’: how a UAE sheikh quietly made carbon deals for forests bigger than UKImproving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests
Marginal improvements to agricultural soils around the world would store enough carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, new research suggests. Farming…
View More Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggestsDelta Air Lines faces lawsuit over $1bn carbon neutrality claim
Delta Air Lines is facing a lawsuit over its $1bn carbon neutrality claim which plaintiffs say is “false and misleading” as it relies on offsets…
View More Delta Air Lines faces lawsuit over $1bn carbon neutrality claimNew oilfield in the North Sea would blow the UK’s carbon budget
A single new oil and gas field in the North Sea would be enough to exceed the UK’s carbon budgets from its operations alone, analysis…
View More New oilfield in the North Sea would blow the UK’s carbon budget