International Agencies & Studies

With global energy supplies and prices roiled by the U.S./Israeli war on Iran and the subsequent disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, renewable energy has “risen to the top of the policy agenda in many countries around the world,” the International Energy Agency reports this morning.

Top securities regulators have undercut Canada’s efforts to diversify its trading relationships and cost the country $44 billion in sustainable foreign investment by putting a pause on mandatory climate disclosures last year, at a time when 13 of the country’s biggest trading partners require disclosure data, concludes a report issued...

Fossil fuel projects already under way will emit seven times more climate pollution than the atmosphere can absorb with even a one-in-two chance of holding average global warming to 1.5°C, according to an analysis released in the lead-up to the COP31 climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye next month.

Four-hour battery storage is now cheaper than the open-cycle gas turbines typically used during peak demand in energy systems across 43 markets worldwide, says a new report by Scotland-based data and analytics firm Wood Mackenzie.

With heat deaths and extreme drought on the rise, and the health effects of climate change growing faster in the decade since the Paris climate agreement was signed, experts are urging governments to declare climate change a global health emergency—and calling for a new climate and health adaptation fund to...

The 'Doomsday Glacier' could drown coastlines around the world. And new studies show how the outlook is getting worse.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Losing more ground in the fight against climate change, humanity is heading for a hotter world than experts projected last year—and the United States is a big reason for that, a new United Nations report says.

Medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle sales grew “considerably” from 2020 to 2025, with global trends favouring trucks, though in Canada buses and coaches dominated that vehicle category.

Global renewable energy investments plateaued in the first half of 2026 amid uncertainty and policy changes, with a bright spot: co-located solar and storage.

Climate finance and clean industrial policy give Canada an opportunity to strengthen its economic competitiveness, build strategic partnerships, and deliver high-integrity climate outcomes, the Canadian Climate Institute writes.

Participants in a role-playing exercise who take on the role of countries facing a fall in global oil demand find that declining need for fossil fuels will cause disorder across international markets unless there is coordinated action towards a stable oil endgame.

Greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are on track to fall this year due to the massive disruption of global oil and gas supplies brought on by the continuing conflict in the Strait of Hormuz, UK-based Carbon Brief reported Sept. 16.

Methane emissions cuts should be treated as a distinct priority alongside carbon dioxide emissions, researchers argue, because valuing methane reductions in terms of “carbon dioxide equivalent” misses some key points.

A leading United Nations agency stands accused of issuing a “call to apathy, not to arms”, with a report that confirms humanity will overshoot the 1.5°C global warming threshold in the 2015 Paris climate agreement but understates the potential to phase out fossil fuels and bring emissions to net-zero by...

The United Nations projects that the amount of emissions spewed into the atmosphere from air conditioning use will rise from 4.5 billion to 7.2 billion tons in the next 25 years or so.