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Climate change

Head and shoulders pic of Frédéric Godemel

6/10/2026 Comment / Frédéric Godemel

Why extreme weather is driving the business case for climate adaptation

It has been another exceptionally hot summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Heatwaves and wildfires have disrupted daily life and forced businesses to confront a growing operational reality. And as colder months approach, the risks continue to evolve. From record-breaking heat to freezing temperatures, severe storms and other climate-driven disruptions, extreme weather is no longer an occasional event. It is the new normal, writes Frédéric Godemel, Executive Vice President – Energy Management, Schneider Electric.

Climate change

11/3/2026 News

Middle East’s ambitious climate goals don’t match current investment trajectory, says market analyst

The Middle East’s energy transition is progressing unevenly, with ambitious 2050 and 2060 climate targets increasingly at odds with current trends in the exploitation of oil and gas resources in the region, according to Wood Mackenzie's latest energy transition outlook for the region.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

Wind turbines and solar panels in a city

4/5/2022 News

Global energy markets face unprecedented uncertainty and a 1.5°C pathway remains increasingly challenging

The latest Global Energy Perspective report from McKinsey & Company finds that global energy markets ‘face unprecedented uncertainty’ as the economic rebound after the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered price spikes for multiple commodities, and the conflict in Ukraine has led to further increasing energy prices and security of supply concerns. As a result, a 1.5°C pathway remains ‘increasingly challenging’.

E&P

12/10/2022 News

UK launches new offshore licencing round while new report says North Sea oil and gas development is at odds with climate goals

The UK’s North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has launched a new offshore licensing round as part of government plans to boost security of energy supplies. However, a new report from Global Energy Monitor claims that emissions from new oil and gas development in the North Sea could contribute to the UK exceeding its carbon budget for 2023–2037 by a factor of two.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

Head and shoulders photo of Steve Hodgson, standing in front of blue door

25/2/2026 Comment / Steve Hodgson

Renewables and efficiency, yes, but fossil fuel use has to fall

What have 30 years observing the energy industry taught Steve Hodgson FEI, Editor-at-Large at New Energy World? That increasing green energy is not enough; the world also has to begin an exit from fossil fuels to prevent a climate catastrophe that has already started.

Emissions

Three firefighters tackling a forest fire

30/10/2024 News

As global emissions hit record high, world enters climate crunch time, warns UNEP report

Continuing current climate policies could ‘lead to a catastrophic temperature rise of up to 3.1°C’, warns the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in its latest annual Emissions Gap Report. However, it adds that the 1.5°C goal set out in the Paris Agreement is ‘still technically possible to meet’, but ‘only with a G20-led massive global mobilisation to cut all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, starting today’.

Oil and gas

30/7/2025 Comment / David Watson

Deeper waters, shallower gains – why Rosebank and Jackdaw will not secure Britain’s energy future

The UK’s North Sea oil and gas reserves are in rapid decline and the opening of new fields will make hardly any difference to UK energy supplies or bills, or industry jobs. Their weak economic case is outweighed by the potential climate impact, argues David Watson, Principal at energy and utilities advisor the BFY Group.

Energy transition

Head and shoulders photo of man standing in front of bright blue door

13/8/2025 Comment / Steve Hodgson

Where are you on the energy transition spectrum?

We live in strange times, with dissent over how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and whether this is important at all – breaking out in the US and elsewhere. While others see an inevitable clean energy future arriving very soon. Steve Hodgson FEI, Editor-at-Large at New Energy World ponders.

Climate change

Group of Fossil Free London activists protesting with banners and smoke bombs outside International Energy Week 2023 venue

5/4/2023 Comment / Fossil Free London

Why activists disrupted International Energy Week

Last month, activist group Fossil Free London disrupted the Energy Institute’s (EI) annual International Energy Week conference. Over the three-day event, they blockaded the venue’s entrance, protested outside and infiltrated the conference itself to demand no new oil and gas, and an end to the industry's ‘obscene’ profiteering. The EI wants to include all voices in the energy transition discussion, so we asked them to outline their views for New Energy World.

Climate change

AI generated image of power lines across a lit up city at night

5/3/2025 News

CCC calls for an 87% cut in UK GHG emissions by 2040

The UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) has published its Seventh Carbon Budget, advising an 87% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040, compared to 1990 levels, if the UK government is to achieve its net zero by 2050 ambition. Reactions from trade associations and Greenpeace are also included in this round-up.

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Why extreme weather is driving the business case for climate adaptation

Middle East’s ambitious climate goals don’t match current investment trajectory, says market analyst

Global energy markets face unprecedented uncertainty and a 1.5°C pathway remains increasingly challenging

UK launches new offshore licencing round while new report says North Sea oil and gas development is at odds with climate goals

Renewables and efficiency, yes, but fossil fuel use has to fall

As global emissions hit record high, world enters climate crunch time, warns UNEP report

Deeper waters, shallower gains – why Rosebank and Jackdaw will not secure Britain’s energy future

Where are you on the energy transition spectrum?

Why activists disrupted International Energy Week

CCC calls for an 87% cut in UK GHG emissions by 2040