As we enter unchartered territory as a result of human-induced climate change, the lifeline forests provide must not be understated nor underestimated. As well as being crucial ecosystems for food security, they are a pivotal tool for both climate change mitigation and adaptation.
New data set and policy recommendations by IRENA outline 2025 priorities to keep 1.5°C within reach
In light of the upcoming 30th session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) March Council meeting, WWF is calling on governments to halt deep seabed mining, citing significant threats to marine ecosystems, climate regulation, and sustainable development for coastal communities and indigenous peoples.
The UK’s former net zero tsar has teamed up with the ex-UN climate chief to launch a clean power taskforce aimed at countering recent reversals on action.
The fragmentation of forests reduces biodiversity at multiple scales, according to new study from a global collaboration of ecologists and support from the University of Michigan.
Where an American oak falls, maple and paubrasilia grow.
On March 5, the Rt Hon Chris Skidmore OBE and former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa hosted the first scoping roundtable of the Climate Action Coalition's Global Clean Power Taskforce.
COP30 president-designate, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago summons the United Nations to leave differences behind and unite in vanquishing the ‘common enemy’ of climate change.
The UK Government is consulting on plans to put the North Sea at the heart of Britain's clean energy future and drive economic growth.
New report from UKSIF and TREX shows global economic exposure to fossil fuel asset stranding risk amounts to $2.28tn by 2040. The UK financial system is itself disproportionately exposed to the stranding risk, ranking 9th globally for losses per capita – more exposed than the United States, Italy, and France.
Last week, the UK’s climate advisors, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), presented a new pathway to a decarbonised UK. The CCC sets out how to achieve this by 2050, and what decisions need to be made in the coming years to ensure success. It's analysis shows that emissions must be reduced by 87% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2040.
We are delighted to announce Ambassador Patricia Espinosa, former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC and Founding Partner and CEO of onepoint5, as co-chair of the Climate Action Coalition’s Clean Power Taskforce alongside Chris Skidmore.
Almost 1,000 participants from nearly 150 countries gathered at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) headquarters in Rome last week, 25-27 February, to resume the 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16). COP16, held in Cali, Colombia, was suspended in November last year due to loss of quorum before the remaining agenda items could be considered for adoption.
Last week, on 26 February, the UK published its National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan for 2030 (NBSAP), outlining how it intends to meet the global targets and goals set out by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) established at the UN biodiversity summit in 2022.
The European Commission has adopted a new package of proposals “to simplify EU rules, boost competitiveness, and unlock additional investment capacity.”
The UN Biodiversity Conference, suspended last November in Cali, will reconvene from 25-27 February 2025 in Rome, Italy, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).