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The Philippines is making it easier for households and businesses to install small-scale solar as America’s war on Iran drives up energy prices across Southeast Asia.

Chinese automakers are increasingly shifting from exporting vehicles to building them in Africa, betting that rapid urbanization and supportive policies will make the continent a major growth market.

"The kindest-looking land is growing the sharpest teeth," writes India's Theresa Ronnie on The Climate Desk. "We have not updated the story we tell about these places, but the map has changed. That gap, for now, is where people are dying."

Supply concentration, especially in refining, as well as proliferating export controls, declining investment, and supply chain and work force bottlenecks are putting critical mineral security at risk for most countries, the International Energy Agency warns in its latest annual Global Critical Minerals Outlook.

Global oil demand and natural gas trading are both set to decline this year, international analysts say, less than two weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged to triple Canada’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and Energy Minister Tim Hodgson declared a $43.7-billion oil pipeline a “good investment” for taxpayers.

Global electric vehicle sales are set to reach 23 million in 2026, an increase of 11% from last year, accounting for just over a quarter of passenger car sales overall, BloombergNEF predicts. Just over half of all car sales will be EVs by 2035, BNEF says, with growth sustained by...

Pakistan installed 27 gigawatts of distributed solar between 2023 and 2025, heralding a consumer-led energy revolution that exceeded the capacity of all the operating coal-, gas-, and oil-fired power plants the country has ever built and saved billions of dollars in fossil fuel imports, Islamabad-based Renewables First and UK energy...

Chinese automaker BYD is planting its flag in Europe, racing to build out a network of flash-charging stations across the continent, with hints that Canada could also be in its sights.

Researchers who found that a single day of extreme heat leads to approximately 3,400 excess deaths in India have analyzed how heatwaves affect mortality at the district level, hoping to bring to light “a profound and troubling environmental injustice.”

A plurilateral alliance built on clean steel and aluminum could reduce reliance on the U.S. and China while accelerating industrial decarbonization.

After seeing nearly 100 countries post record electric vehicle sales in 2025, the International Energy Agency is projecting that global sales will approach 30% of all new vehicles this year, just as Canada posts a 75% surge in EV sales in March compared to the same month last year.

Ship operators rely on a sludgelike substance known as bunker fuel to keep vessels running. The Iran war 's closure of the Strait of Hormuz has choked off the supply of this fuel that powers the global maritime industry and its largest refuelling hub in Asia.

Conflict-driven price volatility, turbine shortages, and currency risk prompt regional leaders to rethink the fossil gas,

“Rapid innovation, decline in cost, and a rise in popularity” are all driving EV sales towards a tipping point “where uptake becomes self-propelling,” and EVs “irreversibly replace internal combustion engine vehicles,” write the authors of a study published in early December in Nature Communications.

As climate diplomacy enters a decisive decade, the focus is no longer only on setting ambitious targets, but on implementing them. In this new phase, the question of where global climate negotiations take place is becoming almost as important as what is negotiated. Location shapes participation, framing, and ultimately, the...