Climate change

New collaborative cost-benefit analysis concludes cost of climate mitigation broadly matched by benefits, but taking account of health and biodiversity gains tips the scales in favour of rapid decarbonisation

Plus deep-sea mining delay, global coal consumption rises, the EU's new EV charging law and all the top green business news from around the world this week

Body of legal precedent on climate court cases continues to grow, forming an 'increasingly well-defined' field of law, according to UN

Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has finalised its assessment framework to gauge whether credits meet its ten Core Carbon Principles (CCPs)

The government's National Adaptation Programme for worsening climate impacts should be a wake-up call - yet it seems Ministers are taking a NAP, argues Emma Howard Boyd

University of Oxford study finds plant-based diets far better for climate and the environment – but separate polling suggests almost half of British diners do not want food labelled 'plant-based' or 'vegan'

Green leaders express disappointment at government's failure to use publication of latest five-year plan to ramp up nationwide climate adaptation efforts

Coalition of 80 charities launches five-point plan designed to deliver on UK's goal to reverse nature loss by 2030

Climate action is no longer confined to a small group of activists or left-wing or anarchist organisations, writes Climate Majority Project's Rupert Read

Recent events are making it increasingly difficult to claim runaway climate change can be prevented, writes British Weather Services meteorologist Jim Dale