Global spending on subsidies that harm environment rises to $2.6tn, report says 19/9/2024

Exclusive: analysis finds $800bn increase in direct support for activities including deforestation and fossil fuel use. ...more

Norway: electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in ‘historic milestone’ 19/9/2024

Nordic country, paradoxically a major oil producer, has set target for all new cars sold to be zero emission? ...more

Superyacht and private jet tax could raise £2bn a year, say campaigners 19/9/2024

Oxfam says ‘commonsense solution’ would reduce emissions and raise urgently needed climate finance? ...more

New OECD report on Biodiversity and Development Finance 2015-2022: Contributing to Target 19 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework 19/9/2024

A new OECD report provides an overview of biodiversity-related development finance by members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and other providers. ...more

Wildlife charity declares 'butterfly emergency' 19/9/2024

A wildlife charity has declared a national “butterfly emergency” after its annual Big Butterfly Count recorded its lowest ever numbers. ...more

Ozone layer on road to recovery despite volcano eruption, UN weather body says 18/9/2024

The world's ozone layer is on "the road to long-term recovery" despite a destructive volcanic eruption in the South Pacific, the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday, after efforts to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals. ...more

COP29 leaders unveil climate funding and energy storage goals 18/9/2024

Less than two months ahead of the COP29 United Nations Climate Summit, the Azerbaijani leadership laid out its plans on Tuesday for what it hoped to achieve, as countries continue to wrestle with how to raise ambitions for a new financing target. ...more

Grid Limitations Hold Back Renewables Breakthrough, Says New REN21 Report 18/9/2024

Renewable energy has the full potential to power the world’s energy demands but can only be achieved through urgent improvements in grid infrastructure and integrated planning, REN21 report shows. ...more

Climate change will escalate child health crisis due to malnutrition, says Gates 18/9/2024

Malnutrition is the world's worst child health crisis and climate change will only make things more severe, according to Microsoft-co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates. ...more

Improved process should accelerate tire recycling 18/9/2024

Evonik wants to help make rubber materials from scrap tires easier to re-use in the manufacture of new automobile tires. So far, the suitability of recycled rubber has been very limited because its chemical structure hampers interaction with new tire materials. A team of researchers at Evonik has now made a key step forward with a process that could make it possible to use up to four times as much recycled rubber in new tires as in the past. “That brings us much closer to the key targets of sustainability and resource efficiency in this sector,” says Christian Mani, Project Manager Circularity at Evonik. ...more