Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Sören Eliot Weber, West Virginia University, discusses his article: Fine-root responses to warming and elevated CO2 vary among plant functional types Roots link plants to soil, shaping the responses of carbon, nutrient, and water cycles to climate change in peatlands. Peatlands in northern Minnesota (USA) have shallow water tables and canopies of black spruce and […]

Wilks et al. share their experience investigating the potential use of satellite surveys to identify elephants in the heterogeneous terrain of Botswana, Africa. A small Cessna plane flies low across the vast expanse of the Okavango Delta in Botswana, with all eyes abord peeled to detect and record elephants as part of the country-wide aerial […]

The published calendar for ETS1 allowances reflects the addition of 25 million allowances allocated to the Greek Decarbonisation Fund pursuant to Article 10a(9) of the ETS Directive.  The first published calendar for ETS2 allowances reflects the early auctioning of 2028 volumes in accordance with Article 8(5) of the Auctioning Regulation. Pursuant to Article 13(7) of the […]

Case Study of Pentref Tyleri written by students of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Surrey By Aiyushi, Oliver, Anaya, Konnie, and Jasmine A Community Rebuilding After Coal As part of the Environment and Sustainability course at the University of Surrey, we have had the opportunity to visit South Wales to explore community and […]

Authors: Francesca Mancini, Claire Carvell and the PoMS partnership Our new paper “Modelling pollinator trends using multi-scale environmental data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme”, recently published in Ecological Solutions and Evidence, represents an important milestone for the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS). Established in 2017, PoMS was designed to fill a critical evidence gap […]

Authors: Francesca Mancini, Claire Carvell and the PoMS partnership Our new paper “Modelling pollinator trends using multi-scale environmental data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme”, recently published in Ecological Solutions and Evidence, represents an important milestone for the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS). Established in 2017, PoMS was designed to fill a critical evidence gap […]

Sarah Le Berre, Institute of Silviculture and Forest Protection (Technical University of Dresden), discusses her article: Identifying future climate refugia in central European mountain forests Mountain forests can seem timeless. Yet their tree communities are continuously changing in response to human pressures, natural disturbances, and shifts in climate. As temperatures rise and disturbance patterns become […]

On 24 September 2026, the Commission published the final Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) for its second Europe-wide auction for projects decarbonising industrial process heat (IF26 Heat Auction). Today, these processes are largely powered by fossil fuels and represent three-quarters of industrial emissions. The auction has a planned budget of €1 billion coming from EU Emissions […]

From Industrial Legacy to Ecological Recovery: Tracking the Revival of the Afon Ebbw Fach By Ahmed, Olivia, Moritz, and Sophie from the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey The Legacy of Coal As Environment and Sustainability students, we recognise that aquatic biodiversity is imperative to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Rivers are […]

Micha Davidova, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, discusses their article: Direct and indirect effects of elevated CO2, warming and drought on plant-consumer interactions of Plantago lanceolata Setting the scene Interactions between plants and their consumers, such as herbivores and pathogens, are among the key factors shaping plant communities. At the same time, […]