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- Sustainable Finance
FCA invites ESG rating providers into voluntary UK reporting pilot
The UK Financial Conduct Authority announced in late April 2026 a voluntary reporting pilot inviting ESG rating providers to test proposed transparency and conduct standards ahead of mandatory regulat…
- Climate & Nature
Solaria Raises €300 Million to Expand Renewables, Storage and Data Centre Platform
Spanish clean energy developer Solaria Energia has raised €300 million through an equity transaction representing 10% of its share capital, with proceeds aimed at accelerating a multi-gigawatt Europea…
- Climate & Nature
Polar Bear Visits to Camps Driven by Ice-Free Season Not Hunger
A decade-long study in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba recorded 580 polar bear visits to trail camera sites and found that the length of the ice-free season, not the body condition of individual bears,…
- Climate & Nature
France Publishes Roadmap to Phase Out Fossil Fuels Entirely by 2050
The French government has released its Roadmap for Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels, outlining plans to end coal consumption by 2030, oil by 2045, and natural gas by 2050. Fossil fuels currently a…
- Climate & Nature
Boeing Purchases 20,000-Ton Diversified Biochar and ERW Carbon Removal Portfolio
Carbon removal marketplace Supercritical has announced a new agreement with Boeing for the purchase of 20,000 tons of durable carbon dioxide removal credits sourced from biochar and enhanced rock weat…
- Climate & Nature
India Remains 100% Import Dependent for Lithium Cobalt and Nickel
India imports all of its lithium, cobalt and nickel requirements, and critical mineral supply chains remain concentrated among a handful of countries, amplifying energy transition risks, according to …
- Climate & Nature
India Heatwave Crisis Deepens as Nights Stay Dangerously Warm
Minimum temperatures across multiple Indian cities have remained abnormally high during the 2026 summer, narrowing the gap between daytime and night-time temperatures and creating continuous heat stre…
- Climate & Nature
Jammu Faces Climate Crisis as Temperatures Rise 3°C Over Fifteen Years
Jammu has recorded a temperature increase of nearly 3°C over the past fifteen years alongside a 64.7 per cent decline in annual rainfall, placing the region in a high-risk climate category. Educators …
- Climate & Nature
Kompas VC Closes €160 Million Fund II for Industrial Decarbonization Startups
Denmark-based early-stage venture capital firm Kompas VC has completed the final close of its second fund, raising €160 million to invest in startups targeting industrial productivity, resilience, and…
- Climate & Nature
NYC Pension Funds Flag BlackRock and Fidelity as Insufficiently Aligned on Climate
New York City's pension funds have declared that asset managers BlackRock and Fidelity remain 'insufficiently aligned' with the system's net zero investment expectations, raising the prospect of manda…
- Climate & Nature
Octopus Commits US$500 Million to US Reforestation Carbon Removal Projects
Octopus Energy Generation has agreed to invest US$500 million in afforestation and reforestation projects developed by nature-based solutions company Living Carbon on degraded land across the United S…
- Climate & Nature
India Sets New 256 GW Power Demand Record Amid April Heatwave
India's electricity demand hit a record 256 GW on 25 April 2026, driven by an intense heatwave with average maximum temperatures ranging between 40°C and 45°C across the country. Renewables supplied 3…
- Climate & Nature
Marine Protected Areas Show Higher Wastewater Pollution Than Unprotected Waters
A global assessment of 1,855 tropical Marine Protected Areas found that four of six key coral regions have higher domestic wastewater pollution inside protected zones than in adjacent unprotected wate…
- Climate & Nature
India's Renewable Curtailment Hits 27 GW of Solar in Q4 FY26
India's power sector recorded its slowest electricity generation growth in six years — just 3 per cent year-on-year — in the fourth quarter of FY 2025-26, even as renewable energy continued to expand …
- Climate & Nature
57 Countries Agree Fossil Fuel Phase-Down Roadmap With 2027 Review
A coalition of 57 countries representing roughly one-third of global GDP agreed at the first global Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels conference in Santa Marta, Colombia on an action-oriented imple…
- Climate & Nature
Scotiabank and RBC Retire 2030 Financed Emissions Reduction Targets
Canadian banks Scotiabank and RBC have withdrawn their 2030 interim targets to reduce financed emissions in key carbon-intensive sectors, citing policy uncertainty, slower-than-expected technology dev…
- Climate & Nature
NYC Pension Funds Achieve 48% Reduction in Portfolio Carbon Emissions
New York City's public pension funds have cut their portfolio greenhouse gas emissions footprint by nearly half since 2019, exceeding interim targets on the path to their 2040 net zero goal. The three…
- Standards & Frameworks
GRI and CDP align disclosure frameworks to cut reporting burden
The Global Reporting Initiative and CDP formalised a collaboration in late April 2026 to synchronise GRI's universal standards with CDP's environmental disclosure platform and develop digital mapping …
- Climate & Nature
Bhutan Needs $14 Billion by 2050 to Fund Its National Adaptation Plan
Bhutan, a carbon-negative country constitutionally bound to maintain more than 60 per cent forest cover and absorbing 6 to 12 million tonnes of CO2 annually, is suffering increasing climate impacts it…
- Climate & Nature
Turtuk's Thousand-Year Palace Demonstrates Zero-Energy Passive Cooling Design
The Yabgo Dynasty Palace in Turtuk, Ladakh, built with metre-thick stone walls and small deep-set windows, maintains habitable interior temperatures in a high-altitude cold desert using no energy inpu…
- Climate & Nature
Himachal Pradesh Disaster Losses Crossed Rs 13,000 Crore in 2025
Infrastructure-amplified floods and landslides caused losses exceeding Rs 13,000 crore in Himachal Pradesh by August 2025, the highest since the 2013 Kedarnath disaster, according to state government …
- Climate & Nature
Utrecht Researcher Models Bering Strait Dam as Potential AMOC Stabilisation Option
A PhD researcher at Utrecht University has used climate models to test whether closing the Bering Strait with a dam could stabilise the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, finding that in som…
- Sustainable Finance
Aviva Investors and Climate Impact Partners Launch Colombian Forest Carbon Project
Aviva Investors and Climate Impact Partners have launched the Llanos Vivos project, a large-scale afforestation and restoration initiative covering up to 13,600 hectares in Colombia's Vichada region. …
- Climate & Nature
Climate Disruption Could Affect 520 Million Students in Eastern and Southern Africa
A UNICEF and Dalberg report finds that climate-related disasters disrupted the education of 130 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa between 2005 and 2024, generating an estimated US$1.3 bi…