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Also relevant to note: the Indonesian government is accelerating the use of hydrogen as a substitute for diesel fuel, particularly for power generation in remote areas business-indonesia.org/news/governm...

World's first hydrogen drone sent into a combat zone Ukraine has, for the first time, sent into combat a hybrid drone powered by hydrogen fuel. According to the builder Skyeton, a variant of its Raybird was deployed for full-scale combat duty with the U...

Meanwhile,Ukraine has, for the first time, sent into combat a hybrid drone powered by hydrogen fuel. According to the builder Skyeton, a variant of its Raybird was deployed for full-scale combat duty with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in an active war zone newatlas.com/military/wor...

While research into extracting hydrogen from underground continues in Canada, Advait Greenergy has signed three MoU. The company is not the only Indian entity to strengthen its international network: IEL entered into a partnership with US company Versogen www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/06/t...

France and Canada deepen Arctic ties with Greenland consulates France and Canada will open consulates in Greenland's capital Nuuk on Friday, deepening Arctic ties amid rising geopolitical tensions after U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his interest in acquiring the strategically located island.

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Нафтогаз забезпечив першу поставку американського LNG в Україну в 2026 році – майже 100 млн куб. м | Нафтогаз України НАК «Нафтогаз України» у партнерстві з ORLEN забезпечив постачання першої партії американського зрідженого природного газу (LNG) для України у 2026 році. Обсяг поставки становить майже 100 млн куб. м.

The first batch of US LNG in 2026 is already in Ukraine: almost 100 million cubic meters of gas have been delivered via the Polish terminal in Świnoujście, says Ukraine’s Naftogaz on Telegram cutt.ly/Utv9eKKr

The Hydrogen Stream: Repsol, Sunfire advance 200 MW of green H2 in Spain Repsol and Sunfire are advancing 200 MW of renewable hydrogen projects in Spain, while new collaborations and funding across Europe and India aim to accelerate electrolyzer development and hydrogen in...

Germany's hydrogen collaboration with Spain and India takes shape. As Sunfires secures 200 MW electrolyzer orders from Repsol projects in Spain, thyssenkrupp nucera and Germany development agency GIZ collaborate to accelerate green hydrogen development in India www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/30/t...

Speech by President von der Leyen on the signature of the EU-Mercosur partnership agreement “Check against delivery” \n \nPresident Peña,\nPresident Milei,\nPresident Orsi,\nPresident Paz,\nPresident Mulino,\nPresident Costa, dear António,\nMinister Vieira, dear Mauro,\nHonourable Members of...

The EU and Mercosur signed a free trade agreement on Saturday in Paraguay covering 700,000 million citizens. The deal, which took 25 years in the making, faced opposition from France and Poland. According to EU sources it is the largest deal it has ever concluded ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

The hidden ocean cost of carbon: Why climate damage is nearly twice as high as we thought An international study, featuring CMCC scientists, reveals that the true economic damage of climate change has been vastly underestimated – because the ocean has been left out of the equation. By inte...

International research reveals that the real economic damage caused by climate change has been greatly underestimated because the ocean has so far been excluded from calculations. CMCC, which contributed to the research, explains that the impacts on oceans almost double the social cost of carbon.

EPA will no longer consider health-related monetary benefits of reducing air pollution | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The EPA will scrap its longstanding practice of calculating the economic benefits related to human health when it sets air pollution limits. Pulmonologist Mary Rice is worried about the health impacts...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will abandon its established practice of calculating the economic benefits related to human health in the process of setting air pollution limits. Only the economic costs to industry will be taken into account.

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Climate change, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social data show that 2025 was the third warmest year on record, only marginally (0.01°C) cooler than 2023, and 0.13°C cooler than 2024, the warmest year on record. The past 11 years have been the 11 warmest on record.

A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics

Ethiopia last year banned the import of new gasoline-powered cars. Nepal reduced import duties on EVs so much that they are now cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines. Brazil raised tariffs on car imports to compel Chinese automakers to set up plants inside Brazil. Etc

Around 5,800 deaths per year in Spain between 2012 and 2021 can be attributed to heat—twice as many as during the 1990s—according to a report published in The Lancet sciencemediacentre.es/en/22000-dea...

As DOE Cancels $7.5B in Green Tech And Freezes $100B in Loans, EU Accelerates: Energy Experts Reveals Buildings Sector Will Be Impacted Most, writes Exergio.

Surging power demand and mounting geopolitical tensions have made 2050 net zero goals unattainable, with the world now on track for 2.6°C of global warming, according to Wood Mackenzie's 'Energy Transition Outlook 2025-2026' report.

CCUS/#CCS - Climeworks, owner of the world’s largest direct air capture station, said it was still far from meeting cost-cutting targets that it wanted to achieve two years ago, showing how complex it is to scale up the process and make it less energy intensive. Writes @financialtimes.com

The IEA released a new interactive mapping tool that allows users to visualize the potential of #biogases. India, Indonesia, Eastern Chinese provinces, Brazil and Egypt seem the regions with more potential. In Europe: Benelux region and northern Italy www.iea.org/data-and-sta...

The trend is there to remain: after making headlines on May 1, once more wholesale electricity prices go down to zero in Italy for six consecutive hours, suggesting that the trend is now becoming "normal" also in Italy gme.mercatoelettrico.org/it-it/Home/E...

A line of BYD’s Dolphin Surf electric vehicles at a launch event in Paris

Chinese car group BYD has sold more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla for the first time www.ft.com/content/53ec...

China's BYD outsells Tesla in Europe for first time, report says Chinese automaker BYD sold more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla for the first time, according to a report by JATO Dynamics, as an aging model lineup and CEO Elon Musk's politics hurt demand for the U.S. EV maker's cars.

China’s BYD has outsold Tesla in Europe for the first time ever in April. According to data from Jato Dynamics, BYD registered 7,231 new battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), a YoY 169% surge, while Tesla’s registrations decreased by 49% www.reuters.com/business/aut...

According to local activists, the new anti-LGBTQI+ laws are also undermining the unity of the protesters, fragmenting the anti-government front. The laws also put the gay community at risk. According to Paata Sabelashvili, 25% of Georgian gays have HIV and the new laws discourage access to treatment

La piazza georgiana non molla. Anche grazie alla comunità Lgbt Da oltre 140 giorni la società civile protesta a Tbilisi contro il governo e il nuovo presidente Kavelashvili. Tra i manifestanti anche molti attivisti che, in questi anni, hanno dovuto affrontare leg...

LGBTQI+ issues are representative of a society divided down the middle, where ultra-progressive pro-EU youth clash with their super-conservative parents. And they are often forced to leave. My article for Domani www.editorialedomani.it/politica/mon...

Wave of new biogas plants confirmed for southern Europe New biogas projects are moving forward in Italy, Portugal and Spain, in further evidence of the scale-up of biomethane production.

Madrid-based investment company Plenium Partners has secured €25m ($28.6m) in public funding to build by 2026 a new anaerobic digestion plant in Pavia, northwestern Italy, writes gasworld www.gasworld.com/story/wave-o...

EU gas storage levels: 37% full in the EU, with some internal variability. Portugal (88%) and Spain (58%) lead the pack. Austria and Italy stand both at 45%, whereas Germany and the Netherlands are scoring poorly (31%, 24%). The UK, second gas market in Europe, stands at 27%

The price for Europe’s packing paper boom The rapid rise of e-commerce and food delivery services has transformed consumption patterns worldwide. In an effort to reduce plastic waste, the European Union introduced policies such as the Packagi...

Our investigation that connects land grabbing in #Mozambique, #wildfire in Portugal, and online shopping. It was amazing to see how many stories unfolded by going all the way through the supply chain.

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Even if demand for oil and gas remains robust for decades, Trump’s “US energy dominance” is challenging long-term, says Wood Mackenzie, adding that US production is set to decline in the 2030s and the rise of low-carbon energies across the globe, particularly in China, could leave the US exposed

Quarterly reports confirm continued electricity and gas market resilience EU gas and electricity markets in the fourth quarter of 2024 proved their resilience further by ensuring stable and secure energy supplies, strengthening market integration and continuing the increase...

And adding to this. In the October-December period, the decline in EU gas consumption halted and there was an 8% quarterly increase year-on-year, the first such increase since the second quarter of 2021, says @ec.europa.eu energy.ec.europa.eu/news/quarter...

Gas, Russia secondo fornitore dell'UE nel 2024 | Staffetta Quotidiana Con una quota pari al 18,8% dei 273 miliardi di metri cubi di gas naturale importati nel 2024, l'anno scorso la Russia è stato il secondo fornitore di metano dei 27 Stati membri dell'Unione europea, s...

Background - Accounting for 18.8% of the 273 bcm of natural gas imported in 2024, Russia was the second largest supplier of methane to the 27 EU member states last year, surpassing the United States (16.7%) and North Africa (14.1%) but below Norway (33.6%) www.staffettaonline.com/articolo.asp...

How 5 EU countries are fast-tracking onshore wind to boost their energy independence Germany, Poland and the Baltic States have suffered big economic damage from rising fossil fuel prices. They are now rushing to reduce their dependence on fossil imports. They see wind as the key solu...

Germany is expected to add around 8 GW new wind energy capacity annually between 2025 and 2030, whereas the Baltics should reach a total wind capacity of 10.5 GW by 2030, up from 2.5 GW today, says @windeurope.bsky.social windeurope.org/newsroom/new...

Gazprom increases gas supplies to Slovakia via TurkStream Gazprom increases gas supplies to Slovakia via TurkStream Read all the news on Agenzia Nova

While the world looks at Trump, Russia's Gazprom gets back to the energy table: it increased gas supplies to Slovakia via TurkStream, a few weeks after the Power of Siberia gas pipeline from Russia to China reached full export capacity of 38 bcm/year www.agenzianova.com/en/news/gazp...

Australians seem more aware of the costs of climate catastrophes. We shall all learn from them. Interesting initiative from @zalisteggall.bsky.social