Preparing before the crisis: lessons from Finland

Writing on the Le Monde website, Anne-Françoise Hivert provides us with an important story about resilience and preparedness. Distributed across the country, Finland's reserves – along its 1,340 kilometres of border with Russia – cover nine months of grain consumption and five months of its oil and gas needs. The system has emerged as a … Continue reading Preparing before the crisis: lessons from Finland →

Climate targets without a plan? Canada heads to court

The federal government argues courts should not direct climate policy but, as David Thurton writes on the CBC News website, questions whether Canada’s climate accountability law actually obliges the government to keep its climate plan capable of meeting its own targets—or merely gives ministers discretion to change it. The government’s reliance on the single word … Continue reading Climate targets without a plan? Canada heads to court →

The hidden carbon cost of choosing a home

In an article on The Conversation website, Burak Gunay, Liam O’Brien and Pedram Nojedehi from Carleton University and Brodie Hobson from Natural Resources Canada Associate Professor in Building Engineering, Carleton University discuss how Canadian homebuyers are making major financial and environmental decisions without being given the information needed to understand a home's energy and carbon … Continue reading The hidden carbon cost of choosing a home →

The solar technology South Africa can’t afford to ignore

Writing on The Conversation website, Craig McGregor, Professor in Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University, discusses how South Africa may be undervaluing a technology particularly well suited to its climate because energy planning focuses too heavily on the cost of generation rather than the value of reliable, dispatchable power. South Africa is overlooking solar … Continue reading The solar technology South Africa can’t afford to ignore →

The hidden crisis Britain’s Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary must confront

The new Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary has signalled her support for tackling fuel poverty, but she's inherited a Warm Homes Plan that is yet to be finalised and, as Andrew Warren warns in an article on the Business Green website, energy efficiency jobs are being lost as the wait to fill the policy … Continue reading The hidden crisis Britain’s Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary must confront →

The demand-side blindness at the heart of UK energy policy

The debate over the UK's energy future is still overwhelmingly focused on how to generate more power, while far less attention is paid to the cheapest and fastest energy resource of all: using less. In this commentary, the environmentalist Sir Jonathon Porritt argues that this imbalance is not accidental but reflects decades of political choices … Continue reading The demand-side blindness at the heart of UK energy policy →

Commercial buildings: the UK’s forgotten energy efficiency challenge

Andrew Warren writes on the Business Green website that the issue is not simply weaker MEES regulations, but government has no discernible strategy for reducing energy demand across the vast majority of non-residential buildings in England and Wales. Andrew Warren chairs the British Energy Efficiency Federation, and is a former special advisor to the House … Continue reading Commercial buildings: the UK’s forgotten energy efficiency challenge →

China’s new five-year plan accelerates the energy transition

Anika Patel writes on the Carbon Brief website about China's new five-year energy strategy, which strengthens its commitment to renewable energy while retaining coal as a backup, introduces mandatory clean energy consumption targets, and reinforces its position in global clean-energy competition. China Briefing 25 June 2026: Five-year plans passed | Critical-mineral tensions | Industrial … Continue reading China’s new five-year plan accelerates the energy transition →

Scientists fight back as US climate research faces deep cuts

Jennifer Collins writes on the Deutsche Welle website about the erosion of US climate science capacity and the efforts of scientists to preserve independent, public access to climate information. Fired US federal workers have revived a defunct climate website — pushing back as the Trump administration escalates cuts to publicly funded science and research. … Continue reading Scientists fight back as US climate research faces deep cuts →

Canada’s energy and climate transition: climate credibility is on trial

Natasha Bulowski writes on the National Observer website about government accountability for climate commitments and whether Canada still has a credible plan to meet its emissions targets after rolling back key climate policies. The issue is not simply whether Canada has ambitious climate targets, but whether it still has a credible, legally defensible plan to … Continue reading Canada’s energy and climate transition: climate credibility is on trial →