60 million tonnes of food waste and 12.6 million tonnes of textile waste are generated annually in the EU. The new measures provisionally agreed by the European Parliament and Council would introduce 2030 food waste targets and require producers to cover costs for collecting, sorting and recycling waste textiles.
The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Annual Report calls for a dramatic uptick in ambition and action for the environment.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Sylvera have launched a Carbon Data Access Partnership (CaDAP) to provide African Governments with world-leading carbon credit data.
Increase in electricity consumption through 2027 expected to average around 4% annually, driven by growing use for industry, air conditioning, electrification and data centres
At the AI Action Summit held in Paris on February 10–11, 61 countries, the European Union, and the African Union Commission signed the Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet.
Parties are required to submit updated national climate plans every five years to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat under the Paris Agreement. However, the majority missed yesterday’s deadline, including key top emitters.
The UN Global Compact Network USA (Network USA) has released a new report highlighting the U.S. private sector's pivotal role in supporting global sustainability through innovative financial strategies.
January 2025 was the warmest January globally, with an average surface air temperature of 13.23°C, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
More than 200 financial sector actors, including 162 asset owners and asset managers with a combined €6.6tn assets under management, have signed a joint statement calling on the EU Commission to “preserve the integrity and ambition” of the EU’s sustainable finance framework.
74 percent of Latin American and Caribbean countries are highly exposed to extreme weather events, affecting food security, according to new UN report.
Following the United States’ second withdrawal, Bloomberg Philanthropies and others will ensure the nation’s funding and reporting obligations to the UN Climate Change Secretariat are met.
Despite Trump’s questioning of the Biden Administration’s climate policies, environmental risks are solidifying their position as the greatest source of long-term concern, according to the Global Risks Report 2025, with extreme weather events a key concern for the year ahead.
IStructE’s updated guidance "How to calculate embodied carbon" and revised Structural Carbon Tool steer the built environment industry to make informed decisions and calculations about emissions due to the use of construction materials.
Regional skills investments will help workers access thousands of jobs in UK heartlands as part of Plan for Change to make Britain energy secure with clean power by 2030.
President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement, a key international treaty on climate, for a second time.
Conservation International announced on 15 Jan that the debt-for-nature swap between the United States of America, the Republic of Indonesia and several non-governmental organisations (Conservation International, Yayasan Konservasi Cakrawala Indonesia, Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara, The Nature Conservancy) has officially been closed and $35mn will now begin to flow toward the protection and restoration of Indonesia’s highest priority coral reef ecosystems.