Legal scholars are raising the alarm about the European Union’s (EU) decision to weaken its corporate sustainability disclosure, saying that it could well expose companies to climate-related lawsuits. Thirty-one academics…

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Legal scholars are raising the alarm about the European Union’s (EU) decision to weaken its corporate sustainability disclosure, saying that it could well expose companies to climate-related lawsuits. Thirty-one academics…

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Microsoft, which usually leaves buying construction materials to its contractors, has signed a long-term contract to buy low-carbon cement by startup Sublime Systems. It will use a new form of…

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Monetizing reforestation and other nature-based carbon removal projects is hampered by the difficulty of verifying outcomes such as soil carbon absorption across vast swaths of land and over multiple years.…

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Apple’s motion to dismiss a class-action suit over alleged greenwashing has attracted an unusual ally, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Apple was sued in late February over the carbon neutral…

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The Two Steps Forward podcast is available on Spotify,  Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and other platforms — and, of course, via Trellis. Episodes publish every other Tuesday. For more than 40 years, Paul Hawken has…

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Cotopaxi breaks the backpack status quo, replacing the sober earth tones typical of trail gear with a trippy patchwork of colors stitched together from material that would otherwise go to…

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AstraZeneca has won approval from the U.K. government for a low-carbon version of its Trixeo Aerosphere, a widely used therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The first-of-its-kind device replaces…

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More companies retired carbon credits in the five months since the U.S. presidential election than during the same period a year ago. This indicates that carbon credit buyers are continuing…

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