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Canada is failing to meet its 2030 climate goals due to rising emissions in the oil and gas sector and the weakening of climate policies by federal and provincial governments. The Canadian Climate Institute emphasizes that climate damages now offset approximately half of the country's expected annual GDP growth. To recover, the document recommends modernizing industrial carbon pricing, implementing clean electricity investment tax credits, finalizing oil and gas methane regulations, and establishing a climate investment taxonomy. It also calls for integrating flood and wildfire resilience criteria into federally funded housing to mitigate future economic losses.

Canada is on track to miss its 2030 climate target due to rising oil and gas emissions and weakened policies. The Canadian Climate Institute argues that continuing to reduce emissions is essential for economic competitiveness and reducing climate damages, which currently equal about half of the year's expected GDP growth. Recommended actions include modernizing industrial carbon pricing, enacting the Clean Electricity Investment Tax Credit, finalizing methane regulations, and improving disaster resilience for housing.

The report documents a significant increase in private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) ownership within the U.S. PACE sector, noting that 15% of all programs now have such backing. It highlights the risks of leveraged buyouts and debt-driven strategies, using InnovAge as a case study to illustrate how aggressive growth and investor payouts can lead to financial instability and regulatory sanctions for care deficiencies. The document also examines the use of federal Opportunity Zone tax incentives to attract healthcare investment and calls for stronger oversight to prevent extractive financial practices in publicly funded elder care.

The Changing Markets Foundation identifies a coordinated network of 'mis-influencers'—including scientists, doctors, and journalists—who amplified industry-led hashtags like #Yes2Meat to discredit the EAT-Lancet planetary health diet. The report reveals that a small group of 100 accounts drove nearly 50% of the backlash posts and over 90% of engagement, with some individuals receiving direct industry funding or using the campaign to fundraise. Evidence from leaked documents suggests PR agencies and industry-funded centers, such as the UC Davis CLEAR Center, played key roles in this effort. The report warns that the meat industry is preparing a new communications drive to maintain its 'social licence' and derail action on climate and health science before the launch of EAT-Lancet 2.0.

Moldova faces a critical parliamentary election on 28 September, characterized by a struggle between the pro-European ruling party PAS and various Russian-allied or populist blocs. While PAS aims for EU integration by 2028, it faces challenges from slow judicial reform and extensive Russian hybrid warfare, including the use of troll farms and disinformation to influence undecided voters. The outcome will determine whether Moldova continues its path toward the EU or shifts back toward Russian influence.

The Net Zero Stocktake 2025 finds that while the number of net zero targets continues to rise across companies, cities, and regions, the integrity of these commitments remains low. As of September 2025, 1,935 entities have targets, including 137 national governments and 63% of the Forbes Global 2000. However, only a small fraction of companies, regions, and cities meet all minimum integrity requirements. The report also highlights a gap in planning, with nearly one-third of Forbes Global 2000 companies lacking a clear roadmap, and expresses concern over the lack of dedicated targets for nature-based carbon removals.

The document highlights the critical role of waste characterization in reducing methane emissions, which account for nearly 20% of global totals. It details available global tools for emissions estimation, examines the varied regulatory approaches to waste data in several Latin American countries, and advocates for the integration of field-based assessments with satellite monitoring to identify methane super-emitters.

The paper introduces a residual demand hypersurface to better measure market power in locational pricing markets, specifically by analyzing how output changes at one location impact prices across all locations. This model is applied to the Italian electricity market to explain supplier bidding behavior and the effects of generation capacity divestment.

Reclaim Finance calls on AXA to cease insurance coverage for Venture Global's Calcasieu Pass 2 LNG project after dredging activities caused sediment overflow that damaged public wetlands and fisheries in Cameron, Louisiana, impacting local commercial fishing livelihoods.

The Institute for Policy Integrity disputes a draft U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report titled “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate,” which claims that climate impacts are too small to justify aggressive abatement. The Institute asserts that surveys of economic experts actually show a broad consensus that significant mitigation is warranted and that climate change will cause significant damage, including limited economic growth and increased mortality.

Reclaim Finance asserts that ING's 2025 Climate Update fails to introduce new policies and obscures the bank's ongoing support for fossil fuel developers. The report highlights that ING continues to provide corporate financing for LNG infrastructure and is a major lender to Venture Global. Furthermore, it claims ING misleadingly uses its Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validation while ignoring the July 2025 Net-Zero Standard for Financial Institutions, which requires the exclusion of financing for companies developing new coal, oil, or gas projects by 2030.

The author contends that Africa must move from being a consumer of technology to an architect of its own future by leveraging assets like biodata and critical minerals through science diplomacy. The text critiques the implementation of the STISA-2024 strategy and proposes a shift from traditional Research & Development (R&D) to a 'Deploy and Refine' (D&R) model. It advocates for a BRICS-wide research council and a new economic paradigm based on collective flourishing and environmental regeneration rather than GDP growth.

WWF advocates for locally-led conservation based on the sustainable use of natural resources, arguing that creating economic incentives for communities leads to better wildlife protection. The organization highlights the success of communal conservancies in Namibia, which have contributed to the recovery of black rhinos, elephants, and lions, and supports co-management frameworks for Indigenous subsistence practices in the Arctic to address challenges posed by climate change.

The analysis compares four scenarios for Africa's emissions: Business-as-usual (BAU), Net-zero by 2050 (NZ50), Net-zero by 2070 (NZ70), and Net-zero by 2100 (NZ100). While all net-zero pathways see renewables become the dominant energy source and a sharp fall in fossil fuel reliance, the timing of the transition creates significant trade-offs. The NZ50 scenario achieves the fastest emissions decline, reaching -0.33 GtCO₂/yr by 2050, but incurs the highest marginal abatement cost (averaging $78 per ton of CO₂) and causes the most disruption to food systems, including a 31% contraction in cropland and a near doubling of staple food prices. All net-zero scenarios rely on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), which shifts water demand from agriculture to the energy sector. Regional challenges vary, with Western Africa facing steep decarbonization due to oil and gas reliance, and Southern Africa managing a coal-dependent system.

The report identifies government corruption, the cost of living, and the economy as the primary concerns for the general U.S. population, while global warming is a top priority only for the 'Alarmed' segment. It analyzes these worries across political ideologies and the 'Six Americas' framework, suggesting that climate communicators can broaden their appeal by linking climate action to these more prevalent economic and governance concerns.

Reclaim Finance reports that asset managers are bypassing European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) guidelines on ESG fund naming to continue investing in fossil fuel developers. Analysis of 190 French-domiciled or managed funds shows nearly half changed names to avoid regulatory constraints. The document attributes these loopholes to lobbying by firms like BlackRock and Amundi and warns that similar gaps may be introduced into the revised Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

Reclaim Finance reports that asset managers are using regulatory loopholes in ESMA's fund-naming guidelines to avoid excluding fossil fuel investments while retaining ESG-related names. The organization highlights that major financial firms lobbied for less stringent criteria and warns that similar lobbying regarding the SFDR regulation could institutionalize greenwashing. Reclaim Finance demands a strict ban on investments in new fossil fuel projects for any fund claiming to be sustainable, ESG, or transition-focused.

Between June and August 2025, human-induced climate change significantly increased global temperatures, with at least 22% of the global population experiencing temperatures at Climate Shift Index (CSI) level 2 or higher every day. Nearly 955 million people faced 30 or more 'risky heat days' added by climate change, with the highest impact seen in Asia. The report also documents severe climate-driven events, including record rainfall and flooding in China, India, Pakistan, and the U.S., as well as historic wildfires in Europe and Canada.

The guide offers ten tips for Climate Week NYC 2025 attendees, focusing on time management, attire, networking strategies, and mental well-being. It emphasizes the need for buffer time for security and travel, the importance of prioritizing events to avoid burnout, and the value of authentic connections over corporate jargon and 'spin'. Logistical advice includes using unlimited data for navigation and preparing outfits in advance to reduce mental load.

Climate Central's analysis for June to August 2025 reveals that at least 22% of the global population experienced temperatures made at least twice as likely by climate change daily. In the U.S., over 21 million people in 32 cities faced 30 or more 'risky heat' days added by climate change, with some cities, such as Honolulu, seeing all their risky heat days attributed to human-caused warming.