Updated EU guidance shows why paper certification alone may not prove origin or deforestation claims that procurement teams still need to verify.

Bioeconomy strategies are expanding in 76 countries, but new research finds governance gaps around land, genetic resources, data and benefit sharing.

AI growth is forcing data centers to rethink power, cooling, and water. Energy Concepts says Plato5X could move more infrastructure on site to ease grid delays.

RMS traded 57,000 Southern acres for 36,000 in Washington in a like-kind exchange with Rayonier, gaining Douglas-fir exposure and Port of Longview access.

Costa Rica's experience illustrates what happens when environmental protection is treated as an economic design problem rather than a compliance obligation

Connecticut DEEP opened two urban and community forestry grant programs totaling $1.23 million, with August 2026 application deadlines and a note that future federal funding is not expected soon.

Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand have enacted mandatory sustainability disclosure. Third-party assurance lags years behind, leaving a gap between what is filed and what can be trusted.

Research finds most carbon offset programs fail to deliver real emissions reductions. As net-zero strategies depend on offsets, the credibility of those claims faces widening scrutiny.

A New York FOIL lawsuit challenges wildlife data redactions in a nearly 2,000-acre solar project siting file, testing how far renewable energy agencies can shield environmental records.

Two Adirondack Park towns passed battery storage moratoriums in March, bringing New York's total to 98. More than 1 GW of planned capacity is delayed as state fire codes and permitting legislation advance.

Wildfire smoke and ash degrade Alberta and BC transmission infrastructure far beyond fire proximity. Industrial operators in western Canada face a reliability risk window that starts earlier each year.

FEMA approved $1.2 billion across seven southeastern states for COVID-19 pandemic reimbursements and disaster recovery work tied to Hurricane Helene.

The voluntary carbon market has a credibility problem that is no longer contained to specialized environmental circles.

The disclosure system was built to capture what companies believed about themselves — their goals, their trajectories, their commitments. It was not built to verify them.

In agriculture, materials, transport, and heavy manufacturing, absolute emissions haven't fallen at the required pace. The gap isn't about ambition — it's about structural constraints

The environmental constraints reshaping industrial timelines across Latin America are less visible than tariffs but just as costly to underestimate.

A Louisiana project is turning wood waste into steady electricity. By pairing biomass with carbon capture, it aims to remove more carbon than it emits.

According to the World Bank, land access, environmental liability tied to site conditions, and the growing intersection of both with water availability are becoming material constraints for international operations.

Deforestation is no longer just about palm oil and beef. Staple crops like rice and maize are driving a larger, more complex share of global forest loss.

At WSDS 2026, India's leading researchers and policymakers laid out exactly how dependent the global clean energy transition is on minerals no one has secured yet.