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Wandering the streets of Shenzhen, a city which has earned the title of China’s “first city of ‘new-energy vehicles’” (NEVs), you will not ... Read More
Digital sequence information, or “DSI”, refers to the genetic information derived from biodiversity. Public and private databases – headquar... Read More
Denmark is on its way to introducing a world-first tax on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in 2030. Central to the proposals – an... Read More
Last month, Germany became the first major economy to announce that it intends to introduce a target to reach “net-negative” emissions later this... Read More
It has been more than one year since the gavel came down at the last UN biodiversity summit, where almost every country in the world agreed on a plan... Read More
The UK’s largest freshwater lake experienced its worst-ever levels of a harmful bacteria this summer. Lough Neagh – a lake in Northern I... Read More
“Carbon offsets” are a means by which businesses, governments and other entities can pay for projects that cut greenhouse gases in order to “ca... Read More
Two-thirds of the world’s biggest companies with net-zero targets are using “carbon offsets” to help meet their climate goals, Carbon Brief an... Read More
In recent years, “biodiversity offsets” and “credits” have been promoted as one of the key ways to finance nature conservation and support gl... Read More
Carbon offsets have made headlines in recent years – often for the wrong reasons. From investigations into “phantom credits” and “crypto�... Read More
Every day, people are invited to buy products and services with supposed climate benefits – whether this be “carbon-neutral flights”, “net-ze... Read More
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