Climate Market Intelligence

COP17: Which countries have released new pledges to tackle nature loss?

**National pledges to halt nature loss establish critical ecological baselines, though tangible sequestration depends on enforcing stringent conservation protocols across terrestrial and marine landscapes.**

This year’s haze is set to cost Singapore more than 2015’s S$1.83 billion. Who pays for the losses?

**Catastrophic peatland fires driving transboundary haze severely compromise regional LULUCF integrity and trigger systemic permanence failure across regional carbon stocks.**

Google, Stripe, Shopify Sign Carbon Removal Deal with CO2-Into-Rock Startup 44.01

**In-situ peridotite mineralization offers millennial-scale permanent carbon sequestration with minimal surface ecological footprint compared to traditional LULUCF sinks.**

Over 800 Companies Commit to TNFD-Aligned Nature Reporting Ahead of New ISSB, ISO Standards

**The rapid corporate uptake of TNFD disclosures will channel critical capital into high-integrity LULUCF and Blue Carbon interventions by mandating granular quantification of ecosystem dependencies and biodiversity impacts.**

Asean turns to World Bank to close clean energy, climate adaptation financing gaps

ASEAN's strategic engagement with the World Bank targets critical adaptation financing deficits, strengthening the resilience of regional biomes against accelerating climate hazards.

Biodiversity and the Conferences of the Parties

**The convergence of CBD and UNFCCC frameworks formally elevates biodiversity co-benefits into mandatory baselines under the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles rather than optional market premiums.**

Astrid Schomaker on biodiversity in a triple COP year

**The harmonization of biodiversity objectives during this triple-COP super-year enforces a paradigm shift toward high-integrity ecological restoration over monoculture offsets, directly testing ICVCM permanence and additionality thresholds.**

Climate choices and attention are shaped more by politics than weather

**Political polarization poses a greater operational threat to ecological restoration and long-term conservation than localized biophysical weather anomalies.**

Political affiliation impacts climate attention and choice beyond extreme weather exposure

**Partisan divergence in climate attention disconnects ecological stewardship from objective environmental stress, jeopardizing the durability of LULUCF and Blue Carbon interventions.**

COP17: Can countries break deadlock on sharing benefits from nature’s digital data?

As world leaders prepare to gather in Armenia for the UN biodiversity conference, discussions over Digital Sequence Information are reaching a tipping point.

COP17: Tracking progress towards the UN’s 2030 nature targets

**The global review of 2030 nature targets will significantly elevate ecological integrity thresholds for nature-based interventions, demanding robust biodiversity safeguards alongside carbon sequestration.**

COP17: Developed countries ‘fall far short’ of UN targets for nature finance

The amount of finance for nature delivered to date “falls far short” of what is needed to meet the UN’s… The post COP17: Developed countries ‘fall far short’ of UN targets for nature finance appeared first on Carbon Brief.

AEP to Build $4 Billion Fuel Cell Project to Supply Low-Carbon Power to Google

Ohio-based electric utility American Electric Power (AEP) announced a $4 billion investment to develop a […]

In-House Research, Engagement Overtake ESG Ratings as Investors’ Top Sustainability Tools: Survey

Investors are increasingly turning to internal resources to gauge companies’ ESG performance, with in-house research […]

South Korea tightens migrant fisher safeguards, but advocates say they fall short

South Korea has recently revamped national guidelines on human trafficking to make it easier for law enforcement officials to spot and stop forced labour and other abuses in the fishing industry.

Arctic Wildlife Research Suffers as Geopolitical Competition Grows

As national security and the hunt for rare minerals come to dominate Arctic agendas, governments are slashing support for wildlife research. Scientists say the loss of monitoring is unprecedented and comes as climate change dramatically reshapes life in the Far North. Read more on E360 →

Later Net Zero means more extreme El Niño years for centuries, study finds

Extreme El Niño events, such as those whose droughts fed Southeast Asia’s haze crises in 1997 and 2015, could grow more frequent the later the world reaches net zero, and stay so for centuries, University of Melbourne-led modelling finds.

Combining climate policy instruments for a just transition to a climate-neutral economy

Finding My Wild: A Summit for Pride and the Planet

**Community-driven wilderness conservation catalyzes resilient LULUCF restoration and bolsters montane biodiversity corridors.**

Microplastics Are Chemically Active, and Could Cause Biological Harm

**Emerging evidence of microplastic chemical reactivity introduces acute ecotoxicity risks that undermine aquatic biodiversity and the long-term sequestration integrity of marine and coastal carbon sinks.**

Scientists Are Teaching Birds to Sing Lost Songs

**Active biocultural intervention strategies directly safeguard critical trophic interactions and avian genetics, reinforcing ecosystem resilience within vulnerable forest biomes.**

Indonesia to Reverse Course on 'World's Largest Deforestation Project'

Indonesia appears to be reversing course on a plan to turn vast swaths of tropical rainforest into rice and sugarcane plantations. Read more on E360 →

Critical Minerals, New Energy Sources and the Race for Resilience

**Accelerating critical mineral extraction for the energy transition creates severe friction between upstream ecological disruption and global emissions abatement imperatives.**

Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP17 biodiversity summit

**Negotiating texts at the upcoming biodiversity summit will establish binding ecological baselines that directly influence carbon sequestration integrity and ecosystem resilience globally.**

Two Courts, One Conclusion: EPA Unlawfully Terminated Solar for All

On September 18, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) termination of the $7 billion Solar for All program was unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and vacated the EPA’s action. Four days later, on September 22, 2026, the U.S. District Court for […]

Thousands of Handwritten Records Reveal Scale of Warming in the Congo

The Congo Basin is one of the few places on Earth where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has failed to track the long-term shift in extreme heat and rainfall. The reason is a lack of readily available data. To fill this gap, scientists have digitized thousands of handwritten weather records, which reveal the impact of warming in the region. Read more on E360 →

How Do We Make COP32 Deliver on Climate Goals?

**Operationalizing long-term delivery pathways toward COP31 and COP32 hinges on anchoring sovereign commitments in high-integrity, ecologically robust carbon removal benchmarks.**

Instagram Photo Reveals New Species of Giant Waterlily

**The discovery of a novel giant waterlily taxon highlights unaccounted biodiversity in vulnerable freshwater ecosystems, directly informing baseline integrity for inland Blue Carbon and LULUCF accounting.**

Factcheck: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder

**Artificially inflated transition cost narratives threaten the deployment of capital into national ecological restoration and domestic LULUCF carbon sinks.**

Lamont Researchers Receive Major Earth Science Honors from the American Geophysical Union

**Advanced empirical research into ocean carbon uptake and seafloor dynamics provides vital physical baselines necessary to de-risk and validate marine carbon sinks.**

Parties to the London Convention and Protocol Debate Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Governance

The parties to the 1972 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention) and the 1996 Protocol to that Convention (London Protocol) are meeting this week. High on the agenda, as has been the case for the last decade and more, is “marine geoengineering including ocean fertilization.” […]

STAFF NEWS: Karina Sarandrea and Brooke Mercaldi Join the Sabin Center

**Enhanced climate litigation tracking increases legal scrutiny over the ecological integrity of land-use and nature-based carbon sequestration assets.**

What Does Securities Deregulation Mean for Climate Risk?

**The rollback of federal climate-disclosure rules obscures corporate exposure to physical asset degradation, ultimately weakening institutional capital allocation toward critical ecological preservation.**

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for September, 2026: +0.61 deg. C

The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September, 2026 was +0.61 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down from the August, 2026 value of +0.68 deg. C. The Version 6.1 global area-averaged linear temperature trend (January 1979 through September 2026) remains at +0.16 deg/ C/decade (+0.22 C/decade over land, +0.13 […]

Supreme Court to Tackle Preemption Issues in Corporate Climate Accountability Litigation

**The Supreme Court's determination on federal preemption will set critical precedents for financing local ecological remediation and nature-based climate resilience.**

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

**Rapidly compounding tropospheric thermal anomalies driven by El Niño intensify non-permanence risks across global carbon sinks.**

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.**

Meet the spacetech CEO who’s betting everything on nuclear micropower

In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Peter Cabauy, CEO and founder...

CFTC: Producers build in CCAs, RGAs through V26 long positions

Regulated entities increased their net lengths and reduced their net shorts, respectively, in their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowance (RGA) combined futures and options holdings, primarily by opening new long positions in the V26s, according to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Google speeds protein structure prediction 8.6-fold to advance targeted cancer research

Google researchers have developed a method that speeds up protein structure prediction by 8.6 times,...

Nature struggles to gain investment priority with Canadian business -analysis

A majority of Canadian businesses plan to maintain or increase their sustainability investments in the coming years, but aren’t likely to prioritise nature and biodiversity, according to an analysis by a global engineering and science consultancy.

Amazon deforestation falls 42% to a record low

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to the lowest level on record. Data released today by Brazil’s national space research institute, INPE, shows that forest clearing in Earth’s largest rainforest over the 12 months ended July 31, 2026, amounted to 3,335 square kilometers (1,288 square miles), an area smaller than the Spanish island of […]

Taiwan plans $4 billion Texas hub to bring chip suppliers closer to US manufacturers

Taiwan plans to develop a $2 billion–$4 billion industrial park in Texas to strengthen semiconductor...

US rival’s 3,000-ton submarine possibly launched two strategic cruise missiles in East Sea

North Korea has announced the successful test-firing of two types of strategic cruise missiles in...

BRIEFING: Climate finance stays on as subtext of IMF, World Bank annual meetings

Climate change continues to tinge discussions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank despite US pressure, especially through tax reform and energy security priorities, according to attendees at the annual meetings held this week in Bangkok.

Claude’s new quantum circuit design uses 17 times fewer gates than earlier approach

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 has developed a quantum circuit design that uses 17 times fewer...

A massive 244-tonne transformer completes 2,165 km road trip to Australia’s largest solar project

A massive 244-tonne transformer has completed a 2,165 km road trip to the site of Australia's biggest solar project. The post A massive 244-tonne transformer completes 2,165 km road trip to Australia’s largest solar project appeared first on Renew Economy.