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©  Nicolas Faramaz
Ocean conservation: entering into force of the High seas Treaty (BBNJ) on 16/01/2026

The High seas Treaty - formally known as the Agreement on “Biodiversity Beyond National Juridiction” (BBNJ) enters into force on 17/01/2026, announced the European Commission. So far, the agreement has been ratified by "81 parties, including the EU and 16 of its Member States, and signed by 145…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, International bodies, Policies & Regulation, …
• Article # 426742
• Published on 16/01/26 at 17:00
Offshore wind: complaint filed against the suspension of Vineyard Wind's (CIP/Avangrid) lease in the USA

Vineyard Wind will file a complaint against the lease suspension issued on 22/12/2025 by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, announced the 50/50 joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Avangrid (a subsidiary of Iberdrola), on…
Domain(s): Energies, Environment
• Category(ies): Producers, Decarbonisation , Justice, …
• Article # 426811
• Published on 16/01/26 at 16:43
©  CC
Natural disasters: "2025 joins a growing list of years with insured losses exceeding $100Bn" (Munich Re)

"Natural disasters caused significant losses worldwide in 2025, which joining a growing list of years with insured losses exceeding the $100 Bn mark. All in all, damage amounting to some $224Bn was incurred, of which insurers covered around $108Bn", said the reinsurance company Munich Re, on…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Service providers, Climate adaptation & resilience, Public health & nutrition, …
• Article # 426749
• Published on 16/01/26 at 16:22
©  CC0
Duty of care: TotalEnergies to be heard on 19 and 20/02/2026 for "an historic trial" (J. Ripoll)

"Faced with TotalEnergies' strategy and their relentless lobbying to prevent or weaken climate regulations, we hope to activate a form of judicial counter-power with this historic trial, in order to impose respect for the law in line with the objectives set by the Paris Agreement". This is what…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): National bodies, Decarbonisation , Justice, …
• Article # 426705
• Published on 16/01/26 at 13:00
©  Académie des sciences - Mathieu Baumer
Académie des sciences: call to "consolidate research capacities in France" and Europe

On 15/01/2026, the Académie des Sciences "calls on scientists in France to take action to consolidate research capacities in our country and throughout Europe", in a context "marked by climate change and environmental crises". On 07/01, the United States announced that it was withdrawing from…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Academic, Research & innovation, Climate / carbon
• Article # 426625
• Published on 15/01/26 at 17:49
©  PIK
"89% of the heat caused by our fossil fuels is in the ocean, only 1% in the atmosphere"(J.Röckstrom, PIK)

"The scientific drama around the need to truly address planetary health comes from recent science, which is that we are currently at a point where we are risking the health of the planet, the very stability, the resilience, and life support on Earth, explains Prof. Johan Röckstrom, Director at…
Domain(s): Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): Academic, Climate adaptation & resilience, Public health & nutrition, …
• Article # 426526
• Published on 15/01/26 at 15:00
©  Gaetano Maccri
Ice Memory Foundation: opening of the first-ever sanctuary storing ice cores in Antarctica

The Ice memory Foundation has officially opened the first-ever sanctuary for mountain ice cores at Concordia Station in Antarctica, on 14/01/2026. These climate archives are "safely stored in an ice cave at a temperature close to -52°C, designed to preserve ice for future generations of…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): International bodies, Research & innovation, Climate / carbon
• Article # 426316
• Published on 15/01/26 at 13:49
©  Cefic
"Simplification can be achieved without opening the REACH legal text" (Cefic)

Simplification, entry into force of the One Substance, One Assessment framework, launch of the Critical Chemicals Alliance, eventual revision of REACH: on 14/01/2025, Cefic (the European Chemical Industry Council) highlighted some of the most important developments at the beginning of the year for…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Trade unions & federations, Policies & Regulation, Chemicals / plastics
• Article # 426437
• Published on 14/01/26 at 18:24
©  ATOSCA
FR / A69 motorway: immediate suspension of work on several sites (Toulouse judicial court)

The Toulouse Magistrates' Court has ordered Atosca, the main contractor for the A69 motorway (linking Castres and Toulouse in the Occitanie region), to "immediately suspend work in progress and planned" on several identified sites along the route of the future motorway, according to an order…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): National bodies, Justice, Policies & Regulation, …
• Article # 426423
• Published on 14/01/26 at 16:38
©  ECMWF
"2025 was the third warmest year on record, with 1.47°C above the pre-industrial level" (GCI/report)

"Copernicus data show that 2025 was the third warmest year on record, after 2023 and 2024. The past 11 years have been the 11 warmest on record. Global temperatures from the past three years averaged more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level (1850-1900). This marks the first time a three-year…
Domain(s): Energies, Environment
• Category(ies): Academic, Carbon capture & mitigation, Climate / carbon
• Article # 426257
• Published on 14/01/26 at 14:31