Climate Market Intelligence

Microsoft Pilots New Maritime Sustainable Fuel Book & Claim Purchase with Norden

**The deployment of sustainable maritime fuels mitigates acute marine pollutants and lifecycle emissions, though genuine environmental integrity relies heavily on preventing adverse LULUCF impacts from biogenic feedstock production.**

JPMorgan Rebrands Forest Asset Management Unit to Reflect Broader Nature-Based Assets Focus

**J.P. Morgan Asset Management's strategic pivot from conventional timberland to holistic natural capital signals a massive influx of institutional capital into high-integrity LULUCF conservation and multi-benefit carbon sinks.**

Alantra Launches New $140 Million Energy Transition Fund with Acquisition of Portfolio from Shell Ventures

Madrid-based international financial services provider Alantra announced the launch of Horizon Secondaries, a new €120 […]

Widespread Local Opposition, Often Driven by Misinformation, Continues to Hamper Renewable Energy Development

**Proliferating local bans on renewable energy infrastructure prolong regional reliance on fossil-fueled baseloads, compounding ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss through delayed decarbonization.**

UN says ‘no time to lose’ as record ‘supersized’ El Nino approaches

**A record-breaking El Niño phenomenon severely escalates non-permanence reversal risks across global biomass sinks, challenging ecological resilience through compound climate extremes.**

California Confirms Series of Reliefs to Ease First Year of Climate Reporting for Companies

**Enforcement grace periods for California reporting temporarily relieve corporate urgency to finance verifiable carbon sequestration and landscape restoration projects.**

RBC Launches New Program to Support Community Solar Deployment

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) announced the launch of the RBC Community Solar Program, […]

Climbers are melting Everest’s glacier with their urine, study warns

**Anthropogenic cryospheric degradation on Mount Everest introduces localized thermal melt and chemical disruption, accelerating the deterioration of vital high-altitude freshwater reservoirs.**

A Surge of Marine Heat Waves Threatens to Scramble Ocean Life

Fueled by climate change and a strengthening El Niño, record-setting marine heat waves are gripping oceans worldwide and playing havoc with sea life. Mounting evidence from recent events suggests the damage could be severe and long-lasting, both onshore and off. Read more on E360 →

Flood disaster tests Nepal’s hydropower ambitions and exports

The 26 August flash floods on the Nepal-China border wiped out or badly damaged 281 megawatts of installed capacity and damaged 388 MW under construction in Nepal, with losses estimated to be hundreds of billions of Nepali rupees. With transmission lines on the Trishuli riverbank washed away, another 150 MW of power is cut off from the national grid.

Maps show surge in Indonesian wildfire hotspots where people and orangutans are choking to death

Indonesian minister says ‘super El Nino’ conditions deepening drought and fuelling fires

Cambodia cracks down on social media wildlife trade, but gaps remain

Cambodia’s environment ministry has called on content creators and social media users to stop posting content that promotes the online sale of wildlife products, to tackle the illegal wildlife trade in the country.

China can catalyse local finance for home solar in the Global South

Kenya's small-scale solar market shows how local capital can be just as important as big China-funded renewables projects.

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the… The post Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use appeared first on Carbon Brief.

From Peru to Columbia: Marialexandra Horna Arrieta’s Path to Climate Finance

**Cultivating localized climate finance expertise is essential to mobilizing high-integrity capital toward critical Latin American biomes, directly safeguarding regional biodiversity and ecological resilience.**

Coal pollution grips coastal Bangladesh as safeguards fail

A major thermal power plant, located in coastal Bangladesh, has been operating without regular air-quality testing, allegedly causing suffering among nearby residents.

Buying green can drive China’s climate action

**China's pivot toward green procurement establishes structural demand for high-integrity ecological supply chains, directly reinforcing LULUCF conservation and ecological restoration benchmarks.**

Data Centers are Helping Fuel a U.S. Battery Boom

Across the U.S., tech companies have courted backlash for using polluting gas generators to power massive new data centers. But energy industry data shows that in addition to building out natural gas, firms are adding huge amounts of battery storage. Read more on E360 →

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for August, 2026: +0.68 deg. C

The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for August, 2026 was +0.68 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up from the July, 2026 value of +0.48 deg. C. It appears the effects of the strengthening major El Nino event are beginning to appear in the global average tropospheric temperature, with an […]

Power asymmetries in adaptation

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Record-breaking wildfires in Canada

Infrastructure links amplify impacts

Restoring reefs with heat-tolerant corals

Suburban Sprawl Puts Western Homes at Risk from Wildfires

**Expanding wildland-urban interface (WUI) sprawl intensifies wildfire susceptibility, precipitating severe reversals in terrestrial carbon sinks and degrading critical fringe ecosystems.**

Guest post: Why tough methane cuts are crucial for keeping warming ‘well-below’ 2C

**Rapid methane abatement provides critical near-term cooling leverage, preventing irreversible ecological tipping points and stabilizing global climate systems.**

Explainer: The CMIP7 emissions scenarios – and how they explore future climate change

**The updated CMIP7 emissions scenarios will fundamentally recalibrate global physical risk modeling and permanence thresholds for natural carbon sinks.**

As Death Toll From Nepal Flood Rises, Officials Call to Tackle Warming

**Accelerated cryospheric degradation and catastrophic glacial flooding in high-altitude watersheds severely destabilize Himalayan ecological corridors and threaten baseline carbon sinks.**

New Zealand Legislates Away Climate Tort, Part II: International Climate Obligations and Access to Justice

This is the second of two posts examining New Zealand’s Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Act 2026. Part I examined the legislation’s intervention in Smith v Fonterra and situated it within an emerging international backlash against corporate climate litigation. This post asks a different question: what does New Zealand’s decision to extinguish climate tort […]

In Africa, a Growing Underground Solar Buildout

Households and businesses are driving a solar boom in Africa, where rooftop arrays and other small systems account for the bulk of new solar installations. But this rapid buildout, which is driving solar additions to record levels, is largely unaccounted for in official statistics, analysts say. Read more on E360 →

August Research Roundup: Select Papers

This month, we covered a long-term analysis suggesting that landfill methane emissions may be far higher than estimated, as well as new research on unexpected trends in U.S. extreme rainfall. Here are additional studies worth noting.

New Zealand Legislates Away Climate Tort, Part I: Smith v Fonterra and the Global Backlash Against Climate Litigation

This is the second of three consecutive posts on corporate climate accountability. Yesterday’s post examined the Paris Judicial Court’s June 2026 ruling in Notre Affaire à Tous et al. v. TotalEnergies SE. On August 18, 2026, New Zealand’s Parliament enacted the Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Act 2026 (the Liability Act), passing 67 votes to […]

Alex de Sherbinin Named Director of New Earth Institute Hub

**The appointment of Alex de Sherbinin to lead the Columbia Climate School's Earth Institute Hub will accelerate the integration of geospatial modeling and Earth observation systems essential for high-integrity LULUCF and Blue Carbon MRV.**

Climate change exposes 580 million children to 20 extra ‘heat-stress days’ every year

**Accelerating extreme heat anomalies amplify physical climate risks, destabilizing terrestrial biomes and undermining the permanence of Nature-Based carbon sinks.**

Recognizing Scope 3, Reserving the Remedy: The Paris Court’s TotalEnergies Judgment

**Judicial recognition of Scope 3 emissions establishes a direct legal nexus between corporate downstream fossil combustion and accelerated global ecosystem degradation.**

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.**

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.**

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.**

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.**

Nuclear microreactor advances key helium cooling system into detailed design

A critical cooling component for a new nuclear microreactor has moved into detailed design, marking...

US stratospheric craft flies 9,300 miles to Japan in world-first sky data network test

A U.S.-built high-altitude platform has completed a 9,300 miles journey from New Mexico to Japan....

The Driven Podcast: EVs outsell petrol and diesel cars in Australia

Electric cars account for 24.9 per cent of new vehicle sales in August and outselling petrol-only and diesel vehicles individually. Plus, news of the week. The post The Driven Podcast: EVs outsell petrol and diesel cars in Australia appeared first on Renew Economy.

300-mm wafers enable transparent chips that bend thousands of times without failing

Silicon-photonics chips can move data using light instead of electrical signals, but conventional versions are...

WCI Markets: CCAs dip back into lower half of $33s following ETS rules approval

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) futures dipped back into the lower half of the $33 handle following a pop higher following the finalisation of the state's revamped ETS rules.

California’s limited Scope 3 reporting approach gets ambivalent feedback, company finds

California regulator ARB's “phase-in” approach to Scope 3 reporting is receiving a mixed reaction from industry and the public service sector, according to a sustainability software company.

Federal court blocks reclassification of California clean air waivers

A federal court granted California a preliminary injunction on Wednesday, ordering the EPA to walk back its decision to reclassify four state clean air waivers as rules subject to congressional review.