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António Guterres again urges all nations to step up to the plate with more climate finance and ambitious decarbonisation plans ahead of the COP30 Climate Summit in Brazil

BloombergNEF predicts the EU's secondary emissions trading system - known as ETS2 - could see the price of CO2 surge to almost €150 a tonne by the end of the decade

Businesses face fresh uncertainty as European Commission seeks to renegotiate raft of previously agreed corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence rules

Plus Northvolt sells heavy industry battery business to Scania, China’s clean energy and fossil fuel funding gap narrows, and EU to loosen state aid rules to boost green projects, in our round up of the world's top green business news this week

Leading green trade bodies join forces to call on Commission to deliver a robust framework that supports efforts to improve resilience of global supply chains

More than 160 Investors representing approximately €6.6trn in assets warn EU against weakening sustainability disclosure requirements

Scientists say climate change made Spanish floods worse, philanthropists pledge $51.7m for protection of the high seas, and Microsoft builds a wooden data centre

Ferrero, Hershey, Nestlé, Tony’s Chocolonely, and Unilever among firms voicing opposition to proposals to delay EUDR by 12 months

Velux Group CEO Lars Petersson welcomes recent efforts from EU and UK policymakers to advance a healthier, lower-carbon built environment

So-called third party assurance is an additional safeguard check for companies in complying with the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive