New Zealand has moved to protect its businesses from protracted climate related litigation.

The daily global average sea surface temperature (SST) has reached its highest level on record, exceeding the previous record set in March 2024.

Data from MCS shows a record start to the year for certified installations, with 210,000 in the UK between January and June 2026, up 17 per cent on the previous highest start to a year in 2025 and equivalent to one installation every 74 seconds.

The Onward think tank has proposed that electricity is too expensive and so discouraging inbound investment and people’s appetite to switch to electrify. Claire Coutinho (pictured), the Shadow Energy Secretary, has backed a report that argues the case for lower prices even at the cost of emissions for faster action.

Spanning 106 feet, measuring 76 feet nose to tail, and weighing more than 25,000 pounds at take-off, the X1 is the largest fully battery-electric aircraft ever flown.

Work has begun on Wales’s first Climate and Nature Action Plan, which will set out a programme to tackle the climate and nature emergency as one connected challenge.

A group of over 100 leading climate scientists, legal experts, and environmental campaigners have sent a letter to the Government urging them to impose a strict "carbon storage obligation" if they decide to re-approve the Rosebank oil field and Jackdaw gas field.

Very few sound minds do not believe that there is climate change. Pretty much anyone knows that pumping carbon and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is increasing temperatures. One can dispute the degree the latter affects climate, but perhaps it’s not such a great idea to put too many more up there.

The Ultra-Long Duration Energy Storage Challenge has been launched, offering grants which support the development of new tech focused on energy storage, including advanced batteries and underground hydrogen storage.

After the eclipse, Octopus energy has decided to adopt the idea of energy shifts over a longer timeframe.

Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has announced a $70bn project to build one of the largest electricity projects in North America.

US Ambassador to the EU, Andrew Puzder’s recent description of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) as protectionism, has met with annoyance in Brussels.