Investment

Despite warm words and some encouraging funding pledges, the first phase of talks in Baku have made little progress towards agreeing a new global climate finance target

Securing climate finance on the necessary scale relies on unlocking private investment in climate solutions and change in the real economy, write WWF's Manuel Pulgar Vidal and Aaron Vermeulen

Value of commercial opportunities identified from addressing climate crisis more than double in five years, corporate disclosure platform claims

Proponents insist Article 6.4 carbon market standards contain robust environmental and human rights safeguards, but campaigners want 'back door deal' risks opening door to widespread greenwashing

Policy measures are shaping the energy transition both as 'powerful drivers' of investment and as obstacles to progress, new study claims

Analysis of listed companies details how the clean energy transition is building momentum, but corporates are still on course to breach the goals of the Paris Agreement

Losses caused by natural catastrophes reached an estimated $280bn in 2023, new study finds

Hundreds of acres of low-yielding farmland surrounding stately home to be returned to nature - yielding a projected 200 per cent uplift in biodiversity

Green Alliance calls for fresh 'obligations and incentives' to encourage food companies to invest more in protecting and restoring natural capital

UNEP calls on countries to significantly increase financing and policy focus on boosting resilience and adaptation to worsening climate impacts at COP29