The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has published A Well-Adapted UK. This new report sets out a comprehensive package of solutions to address the growing impacts of climate change affecting every aspect of life in the UK. The country’s independent climate advisors identify better cooling, flood protection and a more secure water supply as the most critical priorities to protect the UK from the three biggest climate risks – heat, flooding and drought.
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Commission: plan to secure Europe’s fertiliser supply and food security
The European Commission has adopted the Fertiliser Action Plan: an initiative to support farmers facing rising fertiliser costs and scarcity, reinforce domestic production and reduce Europe's dependency on imports. The Plan will directly help to ensure food security and reinforce Europe's strategic autonomy, while pursuing high climate and environmental goals.
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The world cannot wait any longer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
The UK, alongside co-hosts South Africa, British International Investment and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, have convened a broad coalitions of partners, from governments, international organisations, business, technology philanthropy and civil society to rethink how to combine strengths in addressing global challenges, such as economic, climate and health shocks.
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Simulation tools from Fraunhofer EMI plan hydrogen infrastructure
Research scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI, are developing a hydraulic simulation tool to assist with the planning of a resilient hydrogen infrastructure designed to safeguard energy supply. Resilient infrastructure is critical for stable hydrogen supply. Simulation tools developed at Fraunhofer EMI analyse network reactions to disruptions and help mitigate risks due to extreme events.
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Mubadala invests in UK offshore wind farm alongside consortium
Abi Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company has made a $325m investment in Ørsted’s Hornsea 3, which, once completed, will be the world’s single largest offshore wind farm, located off the Norfolk coast in the UK. Mubadala is investing alongside a consortium led by Apollo-managed funds, which includes USS and La Caisse. The investment follows Apollo Funds’ acquisition of a 50% stake in the joint venture holding Hornsea 3, with Ørsted retaining the remaining 50% ownership and continuing to lead the development, construction and operation of the project.
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Invinity ‘super battery’ delivered in first installation in Europe
Invinity Energy Systems has completed the delivery of 20.7MWh of Vanadium Flow Batteries to the Copwood VFB Energy Hub in East Sussex. It will be Europe’s largest vanadium flow battery installation when it enters service later this year. The project pairs 90 vanadium flow batteries – a form of long‑duration energy storage – with a 3MW solar array to enable more home-grown, low‑cost solar power to be used when needed.
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EU awards over €1bn to nine European hydrogen projects
The European Commission has selected nine hydrogen production projects under the third auction of the European Hydrogen Bank. Across seven countries in the European Economic Area. The projects are expected to provide almost 1.1 giga-watts of electrolyser capacity and produce over 1.3m tonnes of hydrogen over their first 10 years of operation, with an estimated greenhouse gas emissions avoidance of 9m tonnes of CO2 equivalent. The selected projects will receive a total of around €1.09bn in EU funding from the Innovation Fund, sourced from the EU Emissions Trading System.
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JP Morgan: Energy outlook 2026 – mitigating volatility with a diverse energy mix
The bank's research says volatile oil prices and surging electricity demand highlight the urgent need for a diversified energy mix to safeguard economic and energy security. The need for diversified energy sources is rapidly reshaping global power generation. Renewables and advanced technologies are projected to supply the majority of global electricity by 2100. Overall, increased global investment in renewables, including nuclear, solar and wind, is paving the way for a more stable and resilient future.
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IEA publishes 2026 Energy Crisis Policy Response Tracker
The conflict in the Middle East has triggered an unprecedented disruption to global fuel markets, tightening supply and placing significant pressure on consumers and economies worldwide. In response, the IEA has launched its largest ever release of emergency oil stocks and also published a menu of demand-side measures that governments, businesses and households can take to shelter consumers from oil price pressures and support energy security.
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Octopus Energy Generation makes nearly €600m European wind push
Octopus Energy Generation, one of Europe’s largest specialist renewables investors, is making a major Europe-wide push into the wind energy market, acquiring 321MW onshore wind farms across 17 sites. Its fund management team has invested €584m in wind farms in France, Germany and Poland, on behalf of the Sky fund it manages, accelerating homegrown power across key European markets. These wind farms will generate enough clean power for over 250,000 homes.
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UK Infinity Fusion Consortium to accelerate UK fusion power plant
Type One Energy, Tokamak Energy and AECOM have announced the UK Infinity Fusion Consortium to pursue development of the first private-sector-led fusion power plant project in the United Kingdom. Together, the companies intend to develop a fusion project that is commercially credible, deployable using existing enabling technologies, and capable of attracting private capital.
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Solar surge halts fossil generation rise as renewables overtake coal
Record solar growth meant clean power sources grew fast enough to meet all new electricity demand in 2025, thereby preventing an increase in fossil generation, according to Ember’s seventh annual Global Electricity Review . This was the first year since 2020 without an increase in electricity generation from fossil fuels and only the fifth year without a rise this century.
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Climate progress: from net-zero ambitions to the Paris Agreement goal
Climate targets require strong commitments from countries to be achieved. Using a multi-model analysis, new research shows that current net-zero pledges bring the world closer to a well-below 2 °C pathway, but an emission gap remains. Increasing ambition will be crucial: expanding the global coverage of net-zero pledges and speeding up action increases consistency with the Paris Agreement (1.5–2.0 °C range in model mean).
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Plan to scale hydrogen production from end-of-life oil fields
As demand accelerates for scalable, cost-effective hydrogen, Eclipse Energy and Wood have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the commercialisation and global deployment of subsurface hydrogen production. The partnership comes as Eclipse transitions from technology validation to commercial execution, with multiple projects progressing this year.
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New coalition to set sustainability standards for AI data centres
Clear, credible benchmarks for sustainable data centre are being developed through the Greening AI Data Centres Coalition (GADCC). The coalition brings together nine of the world’s leading built environment, sustainability and finance organisations in response to the rapid global growth of AI-driven data centres and the increasing pressures these facilities place on energy systems and networks, water resources and local communities.