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At his final UN Climate Summit as Secretary-General, António Guterres urged governments to publish firm fossil-fuel phase-out plans, called on G20 nations to lead, and pressed for climate finance to reach $1.3 trillion a year by 2035.
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Germany unveiled a national roadmap to end its reliance on coal, oil and gas by 2045, becoming the third European country after France and the Netherlands to set a formal fossil-fuel exit timeline.
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A University of Chicago Climate Impact Lab report projects that this year's near-record El Niño, layered on top of human-caused warming, could drive about 451,000 heat-related deaths worldwide, with the Global South hit hardest.
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Ratifications from Germany, Canada, Australia and several other nations during UN General Assembly week pushed the global agreement to protect marine life in international waters past 100 parties ahead of its first Conference of the Parties in 2027.
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New analysis from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air finds that Chinese exports of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and EVs avoided about 374 million metric tons of carbon dioxide last year, with solar shipments to South Asia a major contributor.
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Nepal's request to the UN loss-and-damage fund after August's deadly glacier-triggered floods is a small fraction of its estimated $2.7 billion in losses, and the fund has yet to pay out to any country despite hundreds of millions in pledges.
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With oil above $100 a barrel and AI data centers straining power grids, Climate Week NYC opened with companies such as Ikea's parent Ingka Group making the business case for clean energy, even as organizers warned of a growing trend of "climate hushing."
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Moeve has begun building the first 300-megawatt phase of the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley in Huelva, a project backed by more than €1 billion that aims to supply renewable hydrogen to hard-to-decarbonize industries.
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Global electric-vehicle sales grew only modestly in August as strong double-digit gains in Europe and record Chinese EV exports were offset by a steep year-over-year drop in North America following the end of the U.S. federal tax credit.
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A federal loan will help bring Iowa's shuttered 615-megawatt Duane Arnold nuclear plant back online by 2029, with Google as its main customer as surging data-center demand revives interest in carbon-free baseload power.
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