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Climate & Energy
The UN's carbon market finally issues its first credits. The hard questions start now.
The UN's Article 6.4 carbon market has issued its first credits, but questions about legacy projects and political risk in Myanmar are already circling.
Climate & Energy
Europe's green mineral rush is eating into its most protected wild places
More than half of the EU's flagship mineral projects sit on or near its most protected habitats, exposing a fault line at the heart of the green transition.
Climate & Energy
Methane cuts could buy the climate a decade. So why are we still falling short?
The science says a 30% methane cut by 2030 is achievable. The gap between that potential and reality is growing, and the clock is unusually short.
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17 Mar 2026
Colombia's Fossil Fuel Summit Is a Bet That Diplomacy Can Still Outrun Delay
Colombia is hosting the world's first standalone fossil fuel transition summit, and the stakes go well beyond what happens in Bogotá.
17 Mar 2026
Pacific Islands Draw a Hard Line on Shipping Emissions as Trump Eyes IMO Rollback
Pacific island nations say if Trump forces a renegotiation of the IMO's shipping emissions deal, they will push for tougher targets, not weaker ones.
17 Mar 2026
Europe's SAF mandates are wobbling, and investors are already getting cold feet
Investors in sustainable aviation fuel are reading the reassurances from Brussels and London as a warning sign, not a green light.
17 Mar 2026
Uganda is betting its oil future on the IEA's most controversial climate scenario
Uganda is anchoring its oil pipeline ambitions to the IEA's most fossil-fuel-permissive scenario, a choice with consequences far beyond its own borders.
17 Mar 2026
Africa's Critical Minerals Could Rewrite the Energy Transition — If Leaders Hold the Line
Africa holds the minerals the clean energy transition desperately needs — the question is whether its leaders can turn geological luck into lasting industrial power.
17 Mar 2026
The Gulf Crisis Is Making the Case for Renewables That Activists Never Could
A Gulf oil crisis is doing what climate advocates couldn't: making renewable energy feel like a national security imperative rather than an ideological choice.
17 Mar 2026
America Is Leaving the Foundation of Global Climate Law, Not Just the Agreement
The US is set to become the first nation to exit the 1992 UN climate convention, dismantling the legal foundation beneath all global climate diplomacy.
17 Mar 2026
France wants EU carbon credits to bankroll Africa's clean cooking revolution
France wants to link EU carbon market revenues to African cookstove projects, and the scale of what that could unlock is being seriously underestimated.
17 Mar 2026
AI Data Centres Are Rewriting the Rules of the Energy Transition
AI data centres are consuming electricity at a scale grids were never designed to handle, and the choices being made now could shape the energy transition for decades.
17 Mar 2026
How Middle East Instability Is Quietly Locking Southeast Asia Into Coal
Middle East instability is pushing Southeast Asian governments back toward coal, threatening to unravel fragile energy transition commitments just as they were taking shape.
