When will clean energy spending exceed military spending?
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COMMENT: While it had seemed that global clean energy spending was about to overtake military spending, the advent of a more conflict-ridden era is causing the most rapid growth in global military spending since at least the Cold War.
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Germany misses climate targets as emissions barely fall in 2025
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Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany have again missed targets set by the Climate Protection Act and barely fell at all in 2025.
How the meat industry is quietly keeping its emissions off the climate agenda
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Meat and dairy giants have been accused of halting climate progress by cosying up to policymakers to justify the soaring growth of animal agriculture.
Trump administration sues California over the state’s nation-leading vehicle-emission rules
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The Trump administration ramped up a battle with California over the state’s nation-leading vehicle-emission standards Thursday, suing air regulators over rules aimed at curbing pollution from cars.
The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?
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Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein.
World faces largest-ever oil supply disruption on Middle East war, IEA says
Mon 16 Mar 2026
The war in the Middle East is creating the biggest oil supply disruption in history, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday, a day after it agreed to release a record volume from strategic stockpiles to offset shortages and a spike in prices.
‘We make a lot of money’: Trump downplays rise in gas prices during Iran war
Mon 16 Mar 2026
Donald Trump on Thursday shrugged off the economic toll the war in Iran is taking on gas prices across the United States, writing on social media that “when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money”.
Eight countries warn EU not to weaken carbon market
Mon 16 Mar 2026
Spain, the Netherlands and six other governments have urged the European Union not to dismantle or suspend the bloc's emissions trading system, its main climate change policy, as Brussels hunts for ways to curb energy prices.
'The situation is dire': War on Iran squeezes India's cooking-gas supplies
Mon 16 Mar 2026
The shockwaves of a war being fought nearly 3,000km away are now reaching India's kitchens.
The future of geothermal energy may depend on fossil fuel workers
Mon 16 Mar 2026
The next generation of geothermal energy is drawing on decades of talent and technical expertise developed in the oil and gas industries.
