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The European Commission has officially proposed extending the deadline for car manufacturers to meet emission reduction targets, granting them an additional two-year grace period.

At least 30 people were killed and more than 48,000 hectares, or 119,000 acres, of land was burned in fires that raged over the last week of March in South Korea, media reported.

Mizuho Financial Group has announced its entry into the NextGen platform as a carbon credit buyer, marking a first for Japan’s banking industry.

NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has won separate greenwashing lawsuits against airline Lufthansa and apparel company Adidas on the grounds of misleading consumers with sustainability claims.

The EU's push to expand the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) has sparked strong backlash from the aviation industry.

Geopolitical disruption through events like Russia’s war on Ukraine or a new transatlantic rift can speed up the rapid build-up of renewable energies, says Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

China’s central government listed “boosting consumption…and stimulating domestic demand” as its first “major task” for 2025, at the recently closed “two sessions”.

A consortium linked to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has built a plant at the Mannheim wastewater treatment plant that cleans generated biogas and uses the resulting CO2 to produce climate-neutral marine fuel using green hydrogen.

The 16th Petersberg Climate Dialogue was held on March 25 in Berlin, Germany. This two-day meeting will decide the agenda for the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil later this year.

The steel sector is “hard-to-abate”, accounting for about 7% of global carbon emissions, which highlights the importance of low-carbon steel. Companies in Japan, South Korea, and China are actively working on research and development in this area.