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Climate change is increasing the risk and severity of droughts globally and across Canada, leading to significant economic losses in agriculture and hydroelectricity, increased wildfire risk, and public health threats. In Canada, the southern Prairies and interior British Columbia are particularly vulnerable, with 2025 seeing 85% of the country abnormally dry. The document advocates for proactive drought response plans, water conservation, and strengthened agricultural resilience to mitigate these impacts.

The document is a formal statement by a coalition of state attorneys general and local officials opposing federal legislation that would shield fossil fuel companies from state-level lawsuits regarding climate deception and consumer protection violations.

The document details the lived experience of Melissa Fisher, a resident of Elizabeth Vale, South Australia, who suffers from Hidradenitis Suppurativa. She describes how worsening heatwaves, combined with inadequate public housing and financial hardship, create life-threatening conditions. Fisher highlights a January 2026 heatwave where indoor temperatures remained at 35 degrees Celsius at 2am, leading to respiratory distress. She advocates for government responsibility to protect vulnerable populations through the Hard Truths human rights case.

A statement from the We Mean Business Coalition urging governments to establish electrification as a central economic strategy to mitigate the risks of volatile fuel markets and strengthen energy security.

Climate Central's analysis of weather data from 1970 to 2025 shows that all four Grand Slam tennis tournaments have experienced an increase in hot days (defined as $\ge$28°C). The French Open has warmed the fastest, with average temperatures rising by 3.5°C. Climate change is attributed with adding 160 extra hot days across the four events, with the U.S. Open seeing the highest absolute increase. Additionally, the frequency of heavy rain days ($\ge$10mm) has increased for the French Open, Australian Open, and Wimbledon.

The document is a legal communication submitted by ten Australian citizens alleging that the Australian government's fossil fuel export policies violate their rights to life, privacy, family, home, and culture. It argues that Australia's role as a leading exporter of coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG) materially contributes to the climate emergency, causing specific harms to the authors, including extreme heat, bushfires, flooding, and toxic algal blooms. The authors contend that Australia has failed its due diligence obligations under international law and that domestic legal remedies are inadequate, requesting the Committee to declare these actions incompatible with human rights obligations and recommend a phase-out of fossil fuel exports.

The GCF's fifteenth annual report highlights a record year of programming with USD 3.26 billion approved in 2025 and a total portfolio exceeding USD 20 billion. Key institutional shifts include the establishment of regional offices in Panama City, Amman, Nairobi, Abidjan, and Suva to enhance country ownership and access. The Fund reports a near-parity balance between adaptation and mitigation in nominal terms, with 59.24% of the portfolio in grant equivalent terms dedicated to adaptation. Significant progress was made in private sector engagement, reaching a cumulative USD 7.21 billion. The report also details the 'Efficient GCF' initiative to reduce project appraisal times to nine months or less and the operationalization of a revised accreditation framework.

The study concludes that an EU prohibition on deep-sea minerals is legally feasible under Article 192(1) TFEU and potentially justifiable under WTO law via Article XX GATT, provided the measure is comprehensive, non-discriminatory, and grounded in the precautionary principle.

Geelen Counterflow developed an electric industrial dryer using heat pump technology to replace fossil gas burners in the production of pet kibble and fish feed. The technology utilizes a self-cleaning heat exchanger to recover waste heat and moisture. A 2022 installation at a Cargill-Ewos plant in Norway created the world's first zero-emissions fish feed factory, reducing energy use and running costs by 75% and eliminating 3,000 tons of annual CO2 emissions. The company has since expanded installations to China, South Korea, and Thailand, targeting markets where the 'spark ratio' between electricity and gas prices makes electrification financially viable.

SKF Group has fully electrified the heating and cooling systems at its Massa factory in Italy, replacing gas-fired boilers with reversible heat pumps. This transition, integrated with a digital monitoring system, has reduced operational energy demand and lowered costs, despite high electricity prices in Italy. The factory sources 100% of its electricity from renewable sources, utilizing a virtual power purchase agreement for a solar plant in Spain and Guarantees of Origin. This project is part of a broader SKF Group strategy that has seen similar electrification and decarbonization efforts across eleven other global factories.

The document outlines the technical processes of hydraulic fracturing and its associated risks, including greenhouse gas emissions during drilling and the release of carcinogens and radioactive materials in 'produce-water'. It synthesizes literature linking UOGD to adverse birth outcomes, childhood cancers, and increased mortality. Additionally, it criticizes the Nova Scotia government's Subsurface Energy Research and Development Investment Program (SERDIP), managed by Dalhousie University, for lacking a clear health research plan and allowing the government to control the publication of findings.

The Clean Air Task Force asserts that Europe faces an "untenable policy gap" regarding fusion energy despite the 2024 Draghi Report's call for an innovation strategy. While the US, China, Great Britain, and Germany are advancing regulations and public-private partnerships, the EU lacks a cohesive strategy to transition fusion from research to industrial application. The author advocates for a strategy that targets commercialisation in the 2030s, separates fusion from fission regulations, and utilizes public resources to de-risk common technological challenges. This call is supported by a broad ecosystem, including startups and Members of the European Parliament, who demand concrete timelines and funding commitments rather than mere intentions.

The brief contends that the Department of Defense is violating the Administrative Procedure Act and statutory obligations by refusing to conduct reviews for over 100 utility-scale wind projects. It argues this freeze is a pretext for the Trump Administration's animus toward wind energy, which will result in increased electricity prices, higher pollution levels, and greater greenhouse gas emissions.

The document is an open letter from energy systems researchers supporting the modernization of the GHGP scope 2 market-based method (MBM). The authors argue that the current MBM allows companies to claim zero emissions without a physical relationship between generation and demand, thereby failing as a legitimate value chain inventory and providing minimal real-world emissions impact. They advocate for the adoption of hourly matching, deliverability, and incrementality criteria to steer procurement toward new clean energy projects and technologies like energy storage and clean firm generation. While supporting the proposed updates, the signatories suggest strengthening them with an explicit age-based incrementality requirement to close gaps where legacy clean generators operate as merchant participants.

Colombia has become the first rainforest nation to mandate nationwide cattle traceability, requiring meat companies to trace cattle to their origin to prevent deforestation. The author argues that cattle ranching is a significantly larger driver of forest loss in Colombia than coca production and calls for other South American governments and global meat companies to adopt similar traceability measures, noting that the technology is affordable and available.

The United States has established a regulatory path for commercial fusion energy that avoids the frameworks used for nuclear fission reactors, instead adapting regulations for radioactive byproduct materials. Under the 10 CFR Part 30 framework, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and its Agreement State Program share authority, allowing compatible state agencies to license fusion facilities. The NRC is currently finalizing specific regulatory guidance in NUREG-1556, Volume 22, with a final rule expected by December 31, 2027. This proportional approach focuses on the confinement of radioactive materials, such as tritium, rather than fission criticality safety, aiming to provide the regulatory certainty needed for private investment and deployment.

The GCF Secretariat broadly agrees with the Independent Evaluation Unit's findings on the Project Preparation Facility (PPF), acknowledging its role as a strategic de-risking tool. The Secretariat commits to improving coherence between the PPF and the Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme (RPSP), differentiating support pathways for varying entity capacities, and enhancing monitoring and knowledge management. While accepting most recommendations, the Secretariat notes that some findings lacked sufficient contextualization and that the PPF Service modality represents only about 21% of approved requests.

The report analyzes Africa's unique governance trajectory, noting that the territorial state was a late colonial imposition. It details how slavery and the Cold War hindered state formation and discusses the subsequent waves of democratisation, highlighting a significant gap between electoral and liberal democracy on the continent.

The document highlights the growing political and economic opposition to Indonesia's Food and Energy Estates project, which is slated to destroy 4.3 million acres of forest. It specifically details the case of Mama Yasinta Moiwend, an Indigenous activist from Papua who was allegedly forcibly removed from her home by the Jhonlin Group and pressured by government-linked actors to distance herself from the documentary 'Pesta Babi'. The author links the project to broader economic instability, noting a 32 percent decline in Indonesia's stock index, and calls for the project to be redirected toward degraded lands.

The European Central Bank (ECB) is integrating a 'climate factor' into its collateral framework to account for climate transition risks when banks borrow from the ECB. This factor calculates an 'uncertainty score' based on sector exposure, company-specific emissions and disclosures, and asset maturity. Reclaim Finance argues that the current design is flawed due to annual rather than automatic calculations for new assets, a lack of transparency regarding the factor's parameters, and penalties that may be too small to deter the worst polluters. Furthermore, the document notes that the factor currently applies to less than 5% of pledged collateral (non-financial corporations) and urges the ECB to extend it to other asset classes, specifically credit claims, which represent nearly 30% of pledged collateral.