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Fishermen and traders at Tanga's Deep Sea Fish Market say fish supplies are shrinking and business is suffering, and they point to climate change among the causes.

Denmark's Nature and Animal Welfare Minister wants a national ban on fast-growing "turbo chickens", and a broad majority in parliament now appears ready to back it.

Zimbabwe's Meteorological Services Department has warned of thunderstorms, hail, strong winds and heavy rain from 27 to 29 October, with officials linking the intensity to high temperatures.

Dodoma's water authority says the capital is about 68 million litres a day short. New boreholes, pipelines and the Farkwa Dam are meant to close the gap as the city grows.

Switzerland has begun releasing strategic diesel reserves after pipeline delays from France. As winter approaches, the episode shows why resilience and sustainability have to be planned together.

At the close of Egypt Forum 2026, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly presented recommendations to lift the minimum wage to EGP 15,000, reach about 30 GW of renewable capacity by 2028 and criminalise unregulated tree cutting.

Six energy companies say new network fees from 2027 could push battery storage investment out of Estonia, while the grid operator Elering says its restructured charges are fairer and approved by the Competition Authority.

Ghana's government has outlined three measures to protect workers as mining companies shift from owner mining to contract mining, with a 30 November deadline.

Amsterdam has commissioned a study into banning single-use packaging, a category the city says makes up 30% of its litter.

New York City has voted to end horse-drawn carriage rides in Central Park from 2028. In Europe, cities from Prague and Brussels to Rome, Vienna and Valletta have taken very different paths on the same question.

Schoolchildren from across India will present their own environmental solutions in Mumbai next month, as Prince William's Earthshot Prize stages a Children's Earthshot alongside its global awards.

WasteServ has issued a tender to deepen the Magħtab landfill from 10 to 54 metres, adding more than 2.9 million cubic metres of capacity and turning excavated stone into construction products.

Twenty-five officials from 11 COMESA central banks spent five days in Cairo learning how to build climate risks into stress tests, and their recommendations now head to central bank governors.

In Doha, Emmanuel Macron rejected claims by foreign leaders that migrants caused the riots in France, pointing instead to disinformation, including AI-generated videos, and to a protest movement that began over school conditions and the cost of living.

Ignitis Group has asked Lithuania's ministries to delay a 700 MW offshore wind farm costing about EUR 3 billion, after the National Audit Office found costs had risen 27% and projected returns had fallen 40% since 2023.

Environmental association ZERO wants the Algarve to upgrade its two existing waste treatment plants and treat organic waste before landfill, rather than build new capacity or turn to incineration.

Renewables supplied 18.8% of Malta's energy consumption in 2025, up from 17.2% a year earlier, according to provisional Eurostat data, leaving 6.2 percentage points to close by 2030.

Prolonged drought has drained Czechia's Orlík reservoir to a historic low, exposing the foundations of Podolsko and highlighting how much stored water has been used to keep the Vltava flowing.

At the halfway point to 2030, a UN progress report finds the world off track on its nature goals, and COP17 in Yerevan is the moment to reset.

Ahead of Budget 2027, Malta's innovation community proposes a green mobility wallet that rewards cleaner commuting, alongside four other priorities.

Uganda's energy and minerals ministry has published lists of mining licence holders who defaulted on rents, royalties and late lodgement fees, and given them 14 days to pay or face losing their licences and prosecution.

Ireland's Climate Change Advisory Council projects that industrial emissions will rise rather than fall, leaving the sector well short of its 35 percent cut by 2030.

Greenpeace Romania protested outside IKEA's Bucharest store, alleging that timber from a clear-cut Carpathian forest proposed for strict protection may have entered a key supplier's chain. IKEA rejects the claim, saying the logging was legal and the area was not classed as virgin forest.

Falling prawn catches and polluted coasts point back to the farm, says Tanzania's agricultural research chief, urging farmers and ocean planners to work together.

Zambia has added about 945 MW of generation in two years, most of it solar, but President Hichilema says transmission and distribution are now the weak link.

European satellites flagged a suspected oil spill in a Baltic shipping lane southeast of Gotland. By the time Swedish responders arrived, it had disappeared, leaving an investigation with no suspect.

Portugal's government has cleared the way for a €5.1 million centre in Viana do Castelo dedicated to ocean energy and marine technology, with around 40 specialists expected on site by 2030.

A group of Polish entrepreneurs, including the founders of InPost and ElevenLabs' chief executive, has invested 500 million zloty in Synthos Green Energy's small modular reactor venture, which now has funding secured for the next two years.

Spain's government has extended its summer wildfire campaign to 31 October after a season of 8,122 fires, 275,209 hectares burned and 21 deaths.

Libya's Renewable Energy Authority has sat down with a British business delegation and major energy companies to discuss solar, wind and an electricity link to Europe, a signal that a nation built on oil is seriously courting clean-energy investment.

As of 27 September, Italian law bans vague "green" and "eco" claims and blocks companies from calling a product "climate neutral" just because they bought carbon credits — a direct transposition of new EU consumer-protection rules.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged governments to set binding fossil fuel phase-out deadlines, warning the 1.5°C threshold is close to being breached — a call that lands awkwardly for Malta, whose own gas dependency is locked in until 2035.

A new regional biodiversity outlook launched in Nairobi places Kenya eighth in Eastern and Southern Africa for protected land, and shows how far the country still has to go to meet the global 30x30 goal before COP17.

At a UN General Assembly roundtable, Sahara Group's Kola Adesina laid out the stark math behind Africa's climate investment shortfall — and argued that closing it is the key to unlocking the continent's growth.

The European Commission is putting nearly €126 million behind three renewable energy projects that only work because two countries agreed to build them together — climate-neutral district heating spanning the German-Polish border, and an onshore wind park straddling Latvia and Lithuania.

Kenya already generates more than 90% of its electricity from renewable sources — but a new Strathmore University study argues that reaching a truly carbon-free economy will take far more than clean power generation alone.

A new $457,000 UNDP-backed programme is handing conservation of Ghana’s Black Volta Basin to the people who live there — funding 18 community organisations to restore land, protect biodiversity and build climate resilience from the ground up.

Nigeria's Financial Reporting Council says more than 50 organisations across banking, manufacturing, oil and gas, fintech and the SME sector are moving to fully adopt the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards — a shift it frames as a strategic push for transparency, governance and competitiveness.

Kenya's clean-energy push has received a fresh boost as KenGen moves to add about 63 MW of geothermal power to the national grid, deepening the country's reliance on a steady, weather-proof renewable source at a time of record electricity demand.

While Ireland is criticised for only modest progress on cutting carbon emissions, one technology is quietly hitting its targets: solar. A gigawatt a year is now being connected, the sun met a third of national demand during the May heatwave, and 8GW is on course by 2030 — if the grid and planning system can keep pace.

Nigeria's Rural Electrification Agency, the UNDP and the Global Environment Facility have unveiled 23 solar mini-grids across 15 states under the Africa Mini-Grid Programme, bringing electricity to more than 50,000 people — as Power Minister Joseph Tegbe assured Nigerians that national supply would improve before the end of 2026.

Danish development finance institution Impact Fund Denmark has reached the final close of SDG Fund II, securing DKK 5 billion (about $760 million) to invest in private companies driving the green transition and inclusive growth across developing and emerging markets — with the backing of five pension funds, Jyske Bank and an EU guarantee.

Another failed rainy season has deepened one of the world's most neglected emergencies: at least 6.5 million people across Kenya and Somalia now face severe hunger, 2.5 million of them children, in a drought scientists link firmly to a warming climate.

A punishing second heatwave has engulfed Europe, smashing June temperature records from France to the Netherlands and pushing heat-linked deaths past 1,300 — a toll the World Health Organization has called a health emergency.

A Paris court has ruled that TotalEnergies must identify and disclose how it will address the climate risks of the greenhouse gas emissions released when customers burn its oil and gas — bringing Scope 3 emissions squarely within France's duty-of-vigilance law and handing campaigners a closely watched, if partial, win.

The UK Government has announced plans to require businesses to ensure their supply chains are not contributing to illegal deforestation, introducing mandatory due diligence rules aligned with the EU's Deforestation Regulation and a consultation due later this year.

Swedish green iron and steel maker Stegra has closed a €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) financing round, providing a lifeline to complete the world’s first large-scale green steel plant in Boden, Sweden.

The European Banking Authority has finalised draft technical standards that simplify ESG risk disclosure for Europe's largest banks — cutting their reporting datapoints by more than a third — while extending sustainability reporting, in proportionate form, to every bank in the EU for the first time.

Logistics giant DP World has unveiled EcoRoute, a suite of tools designed to help companies cut emissions and build more efficient, resilient supply chains — at a time when freight accounts for roughly a tenth of global energy-related CO₂.

Nestlé is bringing regeneratively farmed British wheat into one of the country's best-loved chocolate bars, partnering with farming brand Wildfarmed to source the grain for the 1.5 billion KitKat bars made every year at its York factory — without changing the taste or signature snap.