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AI energy demand is testing corporate net-zero commitments
Clean firm power is now a technology-sector priority
AI is also accelerating materials, grid and climate modelling research

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Climate Pledges Now Add Up to a 6% Emissions Cut by 2035

UN Climate Change synthesised 127 new national pledges covering 71 per cent of global emissions and found they would cut output 6 per cent below 2019 levels by 2035. The same morning the WMO put atmospheric carbon dioxide at a record 426.8 parts per million.

28 October 20263 min read

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Europe's Summer Heat Killed 50,391 in 854 Cities

Researchers at Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine modelled heat-related mortality across 854 European cities for June to August 2026 and found the highest total the method has produced for any European summer, with roughly two-thirds of the deaths attributed to fossil fuel warming.

25 October 20263 min read

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The IPCC Has No Date for AR7 and No Budget for 2027

The IPCC ended a week in Addis Ababa without agreeing when the three Seventh Assessment Report volumes will appear or how to fund them. The split is between delivery in 2028, before the next Global Stocktake, and pushing two reports into 2029.

20 October 20264 min read

Science/ Data Story

Sheltering From Heat Adds 46 Radon Deaths per 10,000

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Italy's National Institute of Health modelled four patterns of behavioural adaptation to heat and found the combined case added 46 lung cancer deaths per 10,000 people in the United States and 42 in a pooled French, German and Italian population, published on 17 October 2026.

18 October 20263 min read

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Berlin and Paris Drop the Offset From the 2035 Car Target

A joint Franco-German position published on 16 October 2026 would let new petrol and diesel cars stay on sale in the EU after 2035 by cutting the fleet target to 90 per cent and removing the obligation to offset the rest, in exchange for stricter Made in Europe rules on subsidies and public contracts.

18 October 20263 min read

Science

Antarctic Ice Cliffs Calve Faster Than Models, Then Stop

A study in Science on 15 October 2026 maps more than 15,000 Antarctic ice cliffs and finds the tall ones collapse faster than models assumed, then restabilise instead of eroding the ice sheet behind them. The authors argue Thwaites Glacier would not retreat immediately even if its shelf failed.

16 October 20263 min read

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California's Emissions Rule Took Effect With 29 Days to File

California's corporate greenhouse gas reporting regulation cleared its final administrative hurdle on 12 October 2026. Companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that do business in the state now have under a month to file, under enforcement terms that let some of them file nothing at all.

14 October 20263 min read

Climate/ Data Story

Models Put 2023-Level Tropical Heat Every Year From 2043

A study in Earth's Future finds that 75 per cent of tropical forests endured simultaneous extreme heat and drought for an average of six months during the 2023-24 El Nino, and projects those conditions as the annual norm in most tropical regions by 2043 under any scenario short of carbon neutrality by 2075. A companion paper in Communications Earth & Environment estimates that fire-derived ozone adds carbon losses equal to 24 per cent of the fires' direct emissions.

8 October 20264 min read

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Twenty-One States Take EPA's Power Plant Repeal to the DC Circuit

Twenty-one states, the District of Columbia and three cities filed a petition for review on 1 October 2026 against the EPA's September repeal of greenhouse gas limits for coal- and gas-fired power plants, arguing the agency never calculated the full cost of the rescission.

2 October 20263 min read

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Climate Technology

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Latest

Climate Pledges Now Add Up to a 6% Emissions Cut by 2035

Europe's Summer Heat Killed 50,391 in 854 Cities

The IPCC Has No Date for AR7 and No Budget for 2027

Sheltering From Heat Adds 46 Radon Deaths per 10,000

Berlin and Paris Drop the Offset From the 2035 Car Target

Antarctic Ice Cliffs Calve Faster Than Models, Then Stop

California's Emissions Rule Took Effect With 29 Days to File

Models Put 2023-Level Tropical Heat Every Year From 2043

Twenty-One States Take EPA's Power Plant Repeal to the DC Circuit

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