The Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi Launches e-Green Digital Environmental Educational Platform 13/10/2022

The Environment Agency–Abu Dhabi (EAD), yesterday announced the launch of e-Green, a digital environmental educational platform, a collaborative e-learning tool exclusively dedicated to the environmental sector in the Middle East. ...more

Climate extremes pose as big a threat to power system as Ukraine war - WMO 13/10/2022

Energy infrastructure will become more vulnerable to extreme weather such as heatwaves and hurricanes, the World Meteorological Organization warned on Tuesday, with a senior official saying that climate change poses as big a threat to global energy security as the war in Ukraine. ...more

World Bank defends climate record in meeting with NGOs 13/10/2022

World Bank President David Malpass defended the institution's commitment to tackling climate change on Tuesday, telling civil society groups that have criticized his leadership on the issue that the bank is focused on global warming. ...more

China needs $17 trillion in investments to meet climate goals, World Bank says 13/10/2022

China needs up to $17 trillion in additional investments for green infrastructure and technology in the power and transport sectors to reach net-zero emissions by 2060, a new World Bank report on China's climate and development challenges found. ...more

Third of emissions cuts must come from behaviour changes, say Lords 13/10/2022

A third of the UK’s emissions reductions must come from people’s behaviour changing, a House of Lords committee has said. ...more

World Bank to launch new trust fund for emissions reduction grants 12/10/2022

The World Bank said on Monday it is launching a trust fund aimed at pooling public funds to provide grants for projects to reduce carbon emissions, including decommissioning coal-fired power plants. ...more

War has inflicted €36bn damage on Ukraine's environment: Minister 12/10/2022

Not only has the war in Ukraine cost lives, but Russia's invasion has also significantly damaged the environment, according to the Ukrainian Minister of Environmental Protection.  ...more

New Zealand farmers to face livestock emissions charges under new plan 12/10/2022

The New Zealand government on Tuesday confirmed plans to price agricultural long-lived gases and biogenic methane that mainly comes from cow and sheep burps separately, in a plan that farm groups have raised concerns about. ...more

Britons urged to help monitor state of rivers, streams and canals 12/10/2022

The public are being asked to take part in the first national water watch to survey rivers, streams and canals as part of a monitoring project. ...more

Explosion in frog numbers after mass pond digging 12/10/2022

Switzerland has reversed the decline of more than half of endangered frogs, toads and newts in one region, research finds. ...more