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Capturing the Future of Climate Change Mitigation: IEAGHG CCS Summer School 2026

**Accelerating engineered carbon capture and storage (CCS) deployment provides critical permanent sequestration capacity to curb atmospheric heat-trapping, shielding vulnerable biomes from severe climate-induced thermal stress.**

Aker, Microsoft Partner to Advance Maturity, Delivery of Carbon Capture and Removal Projects

**The industrialization of engineered carbon capture and geological sequestration provides ultra-high-durability carbon removal, relieving ecological pressure on fragile terrestrial LULUCF sinks.**

Dos perturbaciones tropicales en el Atlántico que hay que vigilar; la tormenta tropical Moke lleva lluvias a Hawái

**Early-season Atlantic disturbances and Pacific tropical activity heighten physical reversal risks for coastal Blue Carbon and LULUCF forestry assets.**

Lookthrough Acquires Real Estate ESG Data and Reporting Platform BuildingMinds

Real estate decision intelligence platform Lookthrough announced an agreement to acquire Schindler-owned real estate portfolio […]

Past El Niños offer a warning as unprecedented event looms

Past very strong El Niño events, with record heat, drought, precipitation, floods, and wildfires, have taken a toll in human lives, human health, national and community economies, and ecosystems. Some effects can linger as much as a decade, after these events.

Mumbai bus drivers bristle at India’s tactics to electrify a century-old fleet

The EV revolution has reached Mumbai’s iconic red public buses, but has come with contracts that push drivers’ incomes and safety into precarity.

responsAbility Raises $461 Million for Asia-Focused Climate Fund

M&G’s impact investing unit responsAbility Investments announced that it has raised $461 million in commitments […]

Mantel Raises $18 Million to Commercialize Carbon Capture Solution for Heavy Industry

Carbon capture startup Mantel announced that it has raised $18 million, including strategic investments from […]

Proper maintenance can help trees withstand hurricanes

Planting the right tree species in the right spots is also important.

Australia Proposes Measures to Reduce Climate Reporting Burden on Companies

The Government of Australia’s Treasury department announced the launch of a consultation on a series […]

Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia's Coral Reefs

Fishers operating off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, are detonating more than 8,000 underwater explosives each year, researchers estimate. The practice is turning picturesque coral reefs to “rubble.” Read more on E360 →

Japan firm launches Taiwan-focused AI decarbonisation platform

The artificial intelligence system draws on a database of more than 5,700 energy-saving and carbon-reduction measures as Taiwanese manufacturers face new carbon-pricing and disclosure requirements.

Asean corporates turn to sustainable finance as 67% plan green or sustainability-linked debt, report finds

More than half of surveyed companies also plan to tap blended finance, as the region faces an estimated US$400 billion annual financing need to reach net zero, a new report by Standard Chartered says.

Harlem Week Climate Change Conference Centers Community Voices

**Urban environmental justice initiatives increasingly steer localized nature-based interventions and urban LULUCF enhancements to mitigate ecological disparities.**

A Polar Climate Ambassador Visits an Arctic Museum in Maine

**Arctic socio-ecological systems face acute disruption from rapid cryosphere thaw, threatening indigenous subsistence and permafrost carbon reservoirs.**

Two Atlantic tropical disturbances to watch; Tropical Storm Moke brings rain to Hawaii

**Heightened tropical storm frequency creates severe physical climate risks for coastal and island carbon sequestration assets.**

One of the World's ‘Most Wanted’ Lost Fish Is Rediscovered

**The rediscovery of the spinach pipefish confirms intact ecological resilience across Papua New Guinea's river systems, strengthening the ecological integrity case for adjacent watershed and forest conservation projects.**

Trump’s Iran war supercharged EV sales everywhere except the U.S.

As the Iran conflict pushed gas past $4 a gallon, EV sales spiked worldwide – with Chinese automakers winning the race U.S. policy handed them.

Cities shouldn’t wait for an extreme weather wake-up call, researcher says

Instead, they need to prepare now for events worse than anything in the historical record.

Carbon crossroads: Can Indonesia cut plastic waste and grow its petrochemical industry?

Reducing plastics dependence may be a better way to ensure supply and meet environmental and climate commitments.

Climate warming drives thermal shocks and accelerated freshwater habitat fragmentation

Rising CO2 Speeds the Growth of Grasses on the African Savanna

**Accelerated savanna grass biomass accumulation driven by CO2 fertilization escalates wildfire intensity and destabilizes dryland carbon sinks.**

Factcheck: 10 flaws in the Conservative report on ‘cheap power’

**Grid decarbonization delays undermine national emissions reduction pathways, threatening terrestrial and marine ecological resilience through sustained reliance on fossil infrastructure.**

The Changing Shape of Extreme Rain in the U.S.

**Shifting spatial footprints and intensification of extreme precipitation substantially elevate physical permanence risks and soil degradation across domestic LULUCF and watershed ecosystems.**

Filipino Cacao Growers Learn to Live With a Hotter Climate

In “Chocolates Melting Away” — the First-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Breech Asher Harani explores how cacao growers in the Philippines are developing new techniques to protect their crops from increasingly turbulent weather. Read more on E360 →

Developing double materiality for climate-related financial policy

**Mandating double materiality frameworks compels financial institutions to account for outward ecological impacts, fundamentally elevating the standard for verifiable biodiversity and carbon sink preservation.**

Q&A: What is ‘long-duration energy storage’ – and why does the UK need it?

**Long-duration energy storage (LDES) accelerates the displacement of fossil-fueled peaker plants, reducing localized pollution and minimizing ecological pressures associated with grid infrastructure expansion.**

A London Scheme to Cut Car Pollution Restored Lung Growth in Children

**Targeted urban emission abatement schemes generate immediate micro-environmental recovery and human health co-benefits, underscoring the biophysical impact of localized pollution reduction.**

Thermal justice in urban climate change adaptation

**Targeted urban greening for thermal justice enhances microclimate stability, biodiversity corridors, and localized ecological resilience in historically redlined and heat-vulnerable communities.**

Bringing justice to informal adaptation to heat stress

**Informal adaptation to extreme heat stresses the urgent need for equitable urban LULUCF strategies to counteract localized ecological collapse in vulnerable settlements.**

A climate impact taxonomy operationalizing IPCC physical driver and risk concepts

**Operationalizing IPCC physical risk drivers establishes a standardized baseline for quantifying ecological resilience, directly reinforcing the integrity of nature-based carbon sequestration.**

Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather

The world is currently experiencing what is expected to become the strongest El Niño on record – dubbed a “super El Niño”… The post Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather appeared first on Carbon Brief.

Analysis: The two largest reservoirs in the US have hit record-low levels

**Severe multi-decadal drought driving US reservoir depletion degrades critical riparian corridors and severely undermines baseline LULUCF sequestration capacities.**

Columbia Climate School Welcomes Inaugural Cohort of Climate, Earth and Society Distinguished Fellows

**The establishment of interdisciplinary fellowship programs strengthens the scientific foundation required to quantify and protect complex LULUCF and Blue Carbon ecosystems.**

Climate School Students Analyze Extreme Heat Risk and Mitigation Efforts at the 2026 FIFA World Cup

A Columbia Climate School student team examined extreme heat, poor air quality and emergency management at MetLife Stadium during the FIFA World Cup in New York/New Jersey.

Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts

**A sustained reduction in global land-use emissions signals stabilizing terrestrial carbon sinks, yet ongoing forest degradation continues to threaten ecological resilience.**

Sabin Center Interns Get to the Core of Climate Science

**Empirical paleoclimate and earth system research at facilities like LDEO provides the scientific foundation necessary to establish baseline integrity and permanence for LULUCF and Blue Carbon assets.**

Record Low Lake Mead: “Millennium Drought” or Inevitable Result of Demand Exceeding Supply?

**Depleting water levels at Lake Mead destabilize regional hydrology and threaten surrounding desert carbon sinks and aquatic ecosystems.**

A Big Win in Few Words: What to Glean from the Climate United Fund Decision

**The appellate court's ruling safeguards $20 billion in federal climate financing, providing essential capital continuity for landscape-scale decarbonization and natural carbon sink deployment.**

Decommissioning Data Centers: Avoiding Stranded Assets

**Unmanaged data center decommissioning poses severe localized ecological risks through electronic waste accumulation and persistent land degradation if stranded assets are not systematically remediated.**

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for July, 2026: +0.48 deg. C

**Persistent atmospheric warming trends (+0.48°C anomaly) exacerbate ecological stress, directly threatening the permanence of nature-based carbon sequestration.**

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for June, 2026: +0.46 deg. C

**The persistent +0.16°C per decade global warming trend directly threatens the permanence and stability of LULUCF and Blue Carbon sequestration sinks.**

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for May, 2026: +0.53 deg. C

**Rising global lower tropospheric temperatures threaten the ecological permanence of nature-based carbon sinks.**

Pressure Causes Temperature? It’s Time to Climb Down from “Mount Stupid”

**Fringe thermodynamic theories challenging radiative forcing threaten the foundational scientific consensus required for validating long-term ecological carbon sequestration.**

Report weights up risks and benefits of mCDR in New Zealand

The eventual deployment of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) technologies in New Zealand could support economic opportunities, but must be weighed carefully against the potential risks and technical feasibility, according to a UN-backed report published Wednesday.

Can REDD+ deliver for Philippines’ Iraya Mangyan?

PUERTO GALERA, Philippines — Before sunrise, Bernito Pampilo shoulders a backpack carrying a mobile phone, flashlight and enough food — he hopes — for a day’s patrol through the forests of Puerto Galera in northern Mindoro, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Manila. By around 6 a.m., the 56-year-old Iraya Mangyan patroller and two […]

The dirty word missing from the debate over how to power the data centre boom

Federal Labor's determination to support renewables as the primary power source for data centres has tended to avoid any mention of one very important word. The post The dirty word missing from the debate over how to power the data centre boom appeared first on Renew Economy.

120-tonne electric trucks take mining 1,250m underground with 624kWh batteries

Two 120-tonne battery-electric trucks are now hauling iron ore deep inside Sweden’s Malmberget mine, showing...

High-frequency C-band signals cut through severe GPS jamming on standard hardware

TrustPoint has shown that its C-band navigation signals can keep working through satellite navigation interference...