Climate change presents an increasingly growing risk to the global economy, threatening long-term prosperity and the exposure of the financial system. In recent years, nature has inched from the periphery of discussions on risk, with growing recognition on nature-related dependencies. Yet, there is still major steps to be taken to price nature into the financial system.
As Earth Day 2025 calls for the world to unite behind the clean energy transition, a pressing question takes centre stage: can we accelerate climate action without jeopardising energy security or are we framing the challenge all wrong?
On April 11th, after years of negotiations, countries reached a landmark deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from global shipping, setting mandatory fuel standards and introducing an industry-wide carbon pricing mechanism.
A new wave of landscape approaches is redefining how we finance and implement nature restoration—by working with, rather than against, the interconnected systems of nature to unlock large-scale, bankable solutions that benefit people, planet, and profit.
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Dave Bircher, Director of Growth at WeForest, spoke to Climate Action in the lead up to the Nature Finance Forum Europe, taking place on April 28th in Paris.
The launch of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) was the biggest shake-up to the British planning system in decades. This new legal requirement, which aims to leave nature in a measurably better state than it was before development, is already yielding positive results. With even greater ambition, it could be transformational for nature. In this blog, I introduce how the world’s largest biodiversity compliance market is working on the ground, and how The Wildlife Trusts in England are engaging with it.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the energy sector in the coming decade, while simultaneously driving a surge in electricity demand from data centres around the world, according to the International Energy Agency’s new report.
Agriculture has undergone profound transformation over the past century, driven by the urgent need to feed a fast-growing global population. Innovations such as synthetic fertilisers, pesticides, and the development of high-yield varieties (HYVs) significantly improved productivity and crop yields and led to what is known as the Green Revolution. However, this progress came at a serious environmental and social cost.
A new wave of hydrogen powered projects have been shortlisted today to help cut emissions and create thousands of jobs in the UK’s industrial heartlands.
New IEA report highlights recent progress and emerging risks across the energy innovation landscape worldwide, with investment trends uneven across different regions and sectors.
A new review commissioned by Steve Reed, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Dan Corry, former No 10 advisor under Gordon Brown, makes 29 recommendations for ‘streamlining’ regulation.
In a world grappling with climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, one fundamental driver often goes unnoticed: resource consumption. Over the past 50 years, global material use has surged by more than three times, with high-income countries responsible for disproportionately high environmental impacts. This linear approach - extract, use, dispose - has dominated economies for centuries. But the tide is turning. The circular economy presents an opportunity to redefine economic growth by designing out waste, keeping products and materials in use for longer, and regenerating natural systems.
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs is proposing to extend the ban on peatland burning to protect habitats, cut carbon emissions, and improve air and water quality.
With 585 GW of capacity additions, renewables accounted for over 90% of total power expansion globally in 2024.
Even demand in advanced economies is rising again after years of declines, with rapid growth of electricity worldwide driving up consumption of renewables, gas, coal and nuclear.
The Western Forest will span across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, and Somerset.
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.