More than 3.5TW of global wind and solar capacity is currently operational, but all good things come to an end, and 2.5 TW of projects will face being degraded by the 2040s, leaving owners with the choice of abandoning the sites, investing to extend its life, or renew.

The latest figures for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) up to the end of August have been published by DESNZ.

Extreme heat is a business risk as much as a human one, shaping operational continuity, productivity and long-term resilience. However, according to the WEF, around half of companies globally have yet to make any assessment and just 28 per cent have piloted or scaled up interventions.

Farmers have complained of missing out on vital Government funding for sustainable agriculture after online applications for a £233m green scheme closed down in under six hours.

COP31 president-designate Murat Kurum has unveiled the Presidency’s flagship electrification pledge to increase electricity’s share of global final energy consumption to 35 per cent by 2035, as well as initiatives to electrify buildings, transport and industry, supported by modern grids.

Independent Distribution Network Operator (IDNO) customers can now access UK Power Networks’ Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS), allowing users to use the intelligent platform managing renewable and flexible energy assets in real time.

New Look, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Oxfam and Circle-8 have created The Circuit, a new collaborative model bringing together retailers, textile recovery partners, automated sorting, recyclers, digital innovators and manufacturers to help build new circular textile value chains.

Insurer Aon has launched of its Global Onshore Renewables Facility, an insurance solution for the growing investment in renewable energy infrastructure.

New research on global electricity systems shows that whilst emissions are being lowered and electric generation is now more diversified, it is also increasingly expensive.

This is a bit of a tangent from our usual areas, but people should be sustainable too, and therefore it is interesting that new research from Zurich Insurance Group and Oxford Research and Development Partners have highlighted how resilient people are to change, and how this affects both individual and organisational performance.

An Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report notes that continuing to push for rapid decarbonisation does risk further increasing high electricity costs, but the dramatic fall in the cost of renewables has made the effect of decarbonisation on long-run energy costs difficult to predict.

Despite a record 5.15TW of renewable power capacity installed at the end of 2025, the world must still build more renewable power capacity in 2026-2030 than in all previous years combined, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), tracking finds.