World Energy Outlook 2026Study
The IEA releases its comprehensive World Energy Outlook for 2026.
Today · Thursday, November 5
- Direct CO2 emissions at the global level, 2025-2035Study
- Almost all coral reef ecosystems face risk of collapse in 50 years, study warnsStudy
- Turkey’s solar boom shines ahead of a UN climate summit but coal and other fossil fuels loom large
- Warming UK seas could ‘fundamentally reshape marine ecosystems’ – reportStudy
- World’s wettest rainstorms are getting wetter, affecting flood and drought riskStudy
- A third major US offshore wind farm is now fully operational
- Marginal oil and gas wells have outsized pollution impact
- Bay Area Air District Moves Forward with Nation’s Strongest Water Heater Standards
- Electric cars are about to overtake petrol in the UK, data showsStudy
- Ten years of the Paris Agreement: Has the world kept its climate promises?
- Methane Abatement Finance: Current Landscape and Pathways to ScaleStudy
- Europe’s Deadliest Summer of the Century: Heat Claimed Hundreds of Lives in Slovakia
- Across a Fevered Pacific Ocean, Seabirds Are Starving
- Nearly a billion people face heatwaves and wildfire smoke in the same year
- Climate Change Triggered Over 8,800 Additional Preterm Births in India During April 2024 Heatwave: StudyStudyAlso: The Tribune, Philstar.com, Asia News Network, Daily Sun, The Times of India, The Statesman, Muslim Network TV, The Statesman, Dhaka Tribune, Daily Sun and 9 others
- Oregon judge allows Multnomah County climate lawsuit against fossil fuel giants to advance
- $305 billion needed, $28 billion delivered: Developing countries face massive climate adaptation funding gapStudy
- Cyclone Arnab Damage Rose 33% Due to Climate ChangeStudy
- Seychelles' top meteorological official: Sea level at Pointe Larue has risen about 17cm over 3 decades
- EPA Ends Biden’s Costly Methane Mandates
- COP31 in Türkiye tackles fossil fuel exit, AI power use and 1.5°C overshoot
- Cabinet approves INR 14,500 crore viability gap funding scheme for development of 92 GWh grid-scale energy storage systemsAlso: India Today, Urban Acres, KNN India, Sarkaritel.com, The New Indian Express, Vajiram & Ravi, NDTV Profit, The Indian Express, Saur Energy, Moneycontrol.com and 20 others
- Global climate policy progress slows, emissions targets harder to reach
- In a Divided World, COP31 Aims for Agreement on ElectrificationAlso: Bloomberg $
- UK Cabinet in Push to Approve Drilling at Rosebank Oil Field
- Democrats’ Big Statehouse Wins Could Transform Climate and Energy Policy
- Voters Reject Industry-Backed Ballot Measures With Big Environmental Stakes
- Extreme flooding in the Southwest foreshadows a wild El Niño winter
- Environmental Ballot WinsAlso: The Boston Globe $
- Building a grid for the age of power
- Oil companies spent over $2 million on Meta ads in the lead-up to the midterms
- Will PG&E’s $2B grid cutbacks derail California’s clean energy buildout?
- Three charts that prove clean energy progress is really happening
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may now have so much plastic, it’s changing the color of the ocean
- Clean power shields China from oil shock more than any other country
- Ice-age abrupt climate shifts were not as fast as thought, new study findsStudy
- Australia approves seabed site where a Japanese company will store carbon pollutionAlso: Bay News 9
- Latin America EV Sales Report: With Over 200,000 Units Sold in Q3, EVs Now Stand at 12% Market Share!Study
- Here are the seven issues expected to dominate the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference
- Invest now or pay more later: can the EU climate resilience framework break the disaster-relief cycle?
- How Florida became the epicenter of localized U.S. dengue cases and what role climate played
- 2026 Progress Report: NZAOA signatories deliver on climate ambitionStudy
- As Extreme Heat Worsens, Renters Are Gaining a ‘Right to Cooling’
- Maricopa County on pace for deadliest year of heat-related deaths
- More than 1,200 European healthcare experts demand that the EU act now against extreme heatAlso: Mirage News, Demócrata
- California heat wave shows home batteries can power millions during peak demand
- Nepal and Bhutan propose making climate risks in mountain regions a key agenda at COP31
- Swat basin faces over 5°C warming by century’s end
- Will this year’s super El Niño push 2026 to be the warmest year on record?
- New study links shipping emissions to $963 billion in global economic damagesStudyAlso: Marine Insight
- 44 Global South Organisations Demand Climate Accountability, Call On Oil Majors To Pay For DamageAlso: The Climate Watch
- African climate negotiators warn against debt-driven energy transition ahead of COP31
- Climate ambition: High. Climate finance: Error 404 (not found)
- Renewable energy groups boosted by ‘clarity’ of US election results
- PRPA keeps noncarbon energy goal but drops 2030 deadline
- 28.29%! LONGi sets a new world record for crystalline silicon cell efficiencyStudy
- The Amazon in Focus: How to Redirect Public Resources to Support the Region’s Sustainable DevelopmentStudy
- US Democrats sweep midterms as climate concerns reshape US politics
- Review of 120-plus UK transport plans finds big gaps in climate resilience rulesStudy
- Accelerating electrification can unlock the full benefits of Spain’s renewables leadershipStudy
- Making buildings more efficient offers a major opportunity to bring down energy bills and reduce emissionsStudy
Yesterday · Wednesday, November 4
- Rich countries fall far short on climate adaptation funding, UN saysStudy
- Antarctica’s permafrost is emitting worrying amounts of CO2Study
- MEDIA ADVISORY: AGU leadership attending COP31 available for interviews on the state of U.S. science, U.S. withdrawal from the UN climate treaty, and maintaining global scientific collaborationAlso: UC San Diego Today
- EU lawmakers vote to further ease CO2 emissions targets, offering lifeline to automakersAlso: ESG Today, Table.Briefings, Automotive News, Ford Authority, EU Today, Anadolu Ajansı, Yeni Şafak English, EV Powered, PubAffairs Bruxelles, Euronews.com and 6 others
- Five Solomon Islands Disappear Into the Pacific Ocean as a Result of Climate Change
- Human-caused warming drove two-thirds of Europe’s 50,391 summer heat deaths in 854 citiesStudy
- International Coalition of Lawyers and Advocacy Groups Accuses JBS of Money LaunderingAlso: Mongabay
- Federal Plan to Elevate Miami Homes Meets Skepticism
- China accounts for nearly half of clean industry investments, research showsStudy
- Funding to help poorer countries cope with climate crisis has stalled, says UNStudy
- India Pushes to Triple Coal Stockpiles to Avert Summer Blackouts
- Six measures could save 1.6 million lives a year: WHOStudy
- Research reveals accelerating sea-level rise around IrelandStudyAlso: Oceanographic Magazine
- AI Needed to Produce More Gas to Power More AI, Tech Firm Cohere Says
- Sea Level Rise Worsens Coastal Flooding and Storm SurgesStudyAlso: Climate Central
- No catastrophic financial hit required to fight climate change, scientists say in landmark court caseAlso: CBC
- Compound high-temperature and low-chlorophyll extremes in the ocean over the satellite periodStudy
- Germany’s EV share hits record 37% as BEVs beat gas and diesel combinedAlso: Electrek
- COP31 to take place 9-20 November 2026 in Antalya, Türkiye
- India Climate 2026: Five years of daily disasters leave over 16,000 dead from extreme weatherStudy
- Fivefold increase in rate of rising sea levels - studyStudy
- Energy tax and carbon emissions law on chopping block as EU Commission doubles down on ‘simplification’ drive
- WHO: Six climate actions could save 1.6m lives annually, generate $9.3trn in benefitsStudy
- Labour shelves Net Zero contract auctions that subsidise solar and wind projects after finally admitting they might not be good value for money
- India puts food before fuel as El Niño dents ethanol ambitionsAlso: Yale E360
- Democrats Win Control of Georgia’s Energy RegulatorAlso: Heatmap $
- Q&A: What is in the global ‘roadmap’ for transitioning away from fossil fuels?Study
- ECB's Lagarde urges climate resilience drive after scorching summerAlso: Yahoo Finance UK
- Corpus Christi Approves Water Fines for Industrial Giants as Landslide Election Rocks Texas
- Q&A: What is the Brazil-led ‘deforestation roadmap’?StudyAlso: Climate Home News
- China's solar push reshapes traditional ways of life on Tibet's high plateau
- Powering NDC Implementation Electrification and the GST Energy GoalsStudy
- How penguin poo is making Antarctic snow melt fasterStudy
- Ukraine’s energy system faces significant risks this winter as Russian threat evolvesStudy
- COP30 adaptation pledge would meet under a third of poorer nations’ needs, UN warns
- Typhoons batter East Asia as El Niño makes Pacific 'burn with fever'
- Top clean energy wins from the midterm elections
- Microplastics pollute nearly two-thirds of corals in Malaysia’s marine protected area, study findsStudy
- Short supplies of crucial equipment stymie changes to US electricity grid
- A Michigan utility’s iffy plan to trap CO2 from its new gas plants
- The great disaster divide: How the super-rich are profiting from global climate suffering
- Return secures €835 million financing to expand battery storage capacity in GermanyAlso: energynews.pro, EU-Startups
- Is climate change propelling the rise of superbugs?
- Extreme heat days may increase dementia risk, with poorer communities facing greater vulnerabilityStudy
- El Niño link offers early warning of humid heatStudyAlso: Mongabay India
- Colorado methane pollution rules won’t change — even if federal regulations are rolled back; Newly adopted state regulatory framework against potent emissions mirrors the regulations the Trump administration has proposed eased
- WHO’s Trillion-Dollar Climate-Health Case Rests On Taxing Fossil Fuels
- COP30 Presidency Roadmap on Enhancing Efforts Towards Halting and Reversing Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030 PlatformStudy
- Scientists reverse coral bleaching in a lab, offering hope for dying coral reefsAlso: Yahoo News Canada
- A Climatology of Gridded Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature for the Southeastern United StatesStudy
- China Truck Sales Now Majority Electric. What’s Next?
- Six climate and health actions could save 1.6 million lives and deliver trillions in benefits each yearStudy
- Extreme Heat Pushes Pyrenees Glaciers Toward Extinction
- THE Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said the heat index may go beyond 52 degrees Celsius, posing extreme danger from the last week of February until June 2027. FULL STORY: https://www.sunstar.cStudyAlso: Facebook
- WA stalls on heatwave health plans ahead of scorching summerAlso: WAtoday, WA Country Health Service
- COP30 fossil fuel roadmap calls for national transition plans as India rejects COP31 electrification pledge
- MENA has received just 4–6% of $570 bln needed to tackle climate crisis: Greenpeace - Region - Business
- Can DTE build 2 gas plants and still meet Michigan’s 2040 carbon-free goal?
- Portuguese gov't drafts new rules requiring data centers to be powered via renewable energyAlso: EnergyNow.com
- Iron powder could store renewable energy in retrofitted coal plants for seasonal needsAlso: Tech Xplore
- Türkiye to unveil national energy 2040 vision, targeting 70% renewable energy share
Earlier stories, by section
Effects
- State of the climate: 2026 likely to tie with 2024 as the warmest year on recordStudyAlso: MyJoyOnline, MyJoyOnline
- The World’s Oceans Just Hit Their Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded at a Time of Year When They Should Be CoolingStudy
- The world has not had a single cooler-than-normal day since December 2022Study
- Cryosphere faces permanent damage when world overshoots 1.5C, scientists warnStudyAlso: Phys.org, IFLScience, Anadolu Ajansı, INSIGHTS IAS, IFLScience, Greenpeace, NewsCord, Newswav, 香港電台新聞網, Yahoo and 21 others
- Even 1.5°C warming could wipe out over half of world’s glaciers, studies showStudyAlso: Aurora News, Hindustan Times
- Big Lancet Report: Heat-Related Deaths Rise 36% Since Paris Climate Agreement, Global Warming BlamedStudy
- August was world’s joint-hottest month on record, scientists sayStudy
- Drought and wildfire are quietly weakening Earth’s carbon defensesStudy
- Scientists confirm global warming is accelerating faster than ever recordedStudy
- How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy
- 50,000 Dead from Europe’s 2026 HeatAlso: Latin Times
- This October is on track to be the hottest ever recordedStudyAlso: London Daily News
- Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon is weakening as climate change intensifies, UN warnsStudy
- Antarctic Sea Ice Decline Is Triggering Global Ocean ChangesStudy
- The Cost of Lagging Global Climate Action Is Lost Lives and Poor HealthStudy
- The risk of Atlantic current collapse is missing from almost all national climate plans – new studyStudyAlso: Phys.org
- Record heat-related deaths in 2023, WHO-partnered report findsStudy
- Study finds Amazon rainforest now releases more carbon than it absorbsStudyAlso: KU News
- First evidence that climate change fuelled wildfires are changing methane in our atmosphere on a global scaleStudy
- Thwaites is a runaway climate disaster. New studies show how.Study
- The climate crisis is causing hunger in Somalia
- Satellites show some of the strongest evidence the AMOC is weakeningStudy
- The World’s Oceans Just Hit Their Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded at a Time of Year When They Should Be Cooling
- Global Warming Has Nearly Doubled in Speed Since 2010, Major Report FindsStudy
- A UN report warns of a widening emissions reduction gap... Is ocean warming paving the way for more frequent Super Niño events?Study
- Europe's killer heat this summer claims 50,000 lives. Climate change blamed for two-thirds of deathsAlso: CNN, yourweather.co.uk | Meteored, Geomechanics.io, Geomechanics.io, Gizmodo, The Cool Down, Gizmodo, ASIS International, The Cool Down, Chronicle-Tribune and 89 others
- Most of the World’s Shallow Coral Reefs Could Collapse in the Next 50 YearsStudyAlso: Associated Press, Associated Press, The Guardian, Mongabay, Mongabay, Phys.org, The Xylom, China Daily Global Edition, Cayman Compass, INSIGHTS IAS and 68 others
- Europe's killer heat this summer claims 50,000 lives. Climate change blamed for two-thirds of deathsAlso: Inside Climate News, The Guardian, NPR, Grist, CNN, Phys.org, Phys.org, Around Prague, ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos, EurekAlert! and 4 others
- Global temperature set to cross 2°C by mid-centuryStudy
- 42 satellite surveys show 11.3 trillion metric tons of polar ice loss across Greenland and Antarctica since 1979, and 84 percent of it came from glaciers flowing faster into the ocean rather than surface meltStudy
- UN says 1.5°C is over and world is on track for 2.8°C of global warming
- Canada Changing Climate Report 2026 Predicts End Of Glaciers By 2100Study
- The Human Fingerprint on Earth’s Water CycleStudyAlso: NASA
- Global warming is accelerating, leading climate scientist Rockström says
- Giant ‘heat storms’ are scorching the Earth. This is the story of the biggest one on record.Also: Yahoo, The Economic Times
- Hottest temperatures ever recorded on Earth
- Earth now has 7 climate 'vital signs' at record extremes, and warming is accelerating
- Climate Change Has It In for the World’s Best Surfing
- Oceans reach their highest temperature on record and scientists warn: “It could be the highest in 125,000 years”
- Permafrost Thaw Unleashes Toxic Rivers and Potent Greenhouse Gases Across the ArcticAlso: cristinaiglesias.com
- Study says global warming did more than El Niño to turbocharge Hurricane PoloStudy
- NASA Satellites Observe Historic 2026 El NiñoStudyAlso: Phys.org
- Scientists knew the Doomsday Glacier was melting. They didn’t realize how ‘aggressively’Also: CNN, CBS News, Phys.org, Daily Sabah, The Cool Down, Anadolu Ajansı, ECOticias.com, Radar.am, Yeni Şafak English, Inshorts and 66 others
- Nearly half of reef-building coral species face higher risk of extinctionStudyAlso: ThePrint, Echonetdaily, Maui Now, Curaçao Chronicle, Operativ Məlumat Mərkəzi, Menafn, Anadolu Ajansı, Anadolu Ajansı, Operativ Məlumat Mərkəzi, Menafn and 5 others
- Arctic sea ice hits another troubling low in 2026StudyAlso: ScienceDaily
- Effect of climate change at least as large as El Niño in strengthening Hurricane PoloStudy
- Global temperatures remain over 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels during second warmest SeptemberStudy
- Atlantic Ocean currents can recover from severe climate weakening, study findsStudyAlso: The Straits Times
- Fires surge in Brazil's Amazon, fueled by El Niño and climate changeAlso: U.S. News & World Report
- Heat-related urban mortality attributable to human-induced climate change in Europe from 2000 to 2025Study
- 2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its LimitsStudy
- Climate change pushed Earth to its limits in 2026, researchers findStudy
- Human-Caused Warming Now Drives Two-Thirds of Europe’s Urban Heat DeathsStudy
- Super El Niño sets another record as it strengthens to 'unprecedented levels'
- What 2024's record-breaking rainfall says about the next El NiñoStudyAlso: Newsroom | UCLA, Mirage News
- El Niño has strengthened to strongest on record, Japan weather agency says
- Monitoring Global Temperature and Precipitation in September 2026StudyAlso: NOAA
- Populations of wild species fell by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, WWF saysStudy
Solutions
- Brazil wraps up COP30 with fossil fuel, forest roadmaps, urging shift from talks to action
- UNEP Gap Report warns steep emission cuts needed by 2035 to limit global warmingStudy
- Green Climate Fund approves record near $2 billion fundingAlso: EnviroNews Nigeria
- Environmentalists celebrate Lula's reelection in Brazil: 'The Amazon can breathe a sigh of relief'
- Lula’s Win Rules Out U-Turn by Brazil on Climate, DeforestationAlso: Bloomberg $
- Brazil Rejects U-Turn on Environment by Reelecting LulaAlso: Bloomberg $
- Global emissions must fall 45pc by 2035 to restore 1.5 deg C goal, UNEP warnsStudyAlso: cseindia.org, TradeArabia
- Supreme Court sounds wary of state-based climate change suits against oil producers
- Protesters rally as Supreme Court weighs whether Big Oil should pay for climate change
Causes
- EPA Pulls the Plug on Regulating Air Pollution From Giant Livestock and Poultry Operations
- Africa launches long-delayed energy bank to finance fossil fuel projects
- CarbonTracker CT2026 - NOAA Global Monitoring DivisionStudyAlso: NOAA
- Judge strikes down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act
- President Trump Unveils EPA’s New Contradictory Methane Proposal at Campaign Rally
- Facing Climate Lawsuits, Big Oil Again Turns to US Supreme Court
- Trump says he’s ending restrictions on climate-warming methane from oil drillingAlso: Associated Press, NPR, Grist, The Guardian, NPR, Eos, Eos, Phys.org, NBC News, Taxpayers for Common Sense and 69 others
- Revealed: UK relied on £2bn of ‘questionable accounting’ to hit its climate-aid goal
- Greenhouse gases hit record highs, further rise expected with El Niño, UN weather agency saysStudyAlso: Phys.org, Phys.org, CBS News, ScienceDaily, Down To Earth, Facebook, World Meteorological Organization WMO, Daily Sabah, Daily Sabah, Anadolu Ajansı and 17 others
- Richest 0.1 percent emit more carbon than poorest half of humanity combined: reportStudy
- U.N.: Carbon dioxide, other emissions reach record high in 2025StudyAlso: upi, vijesti.me
- release_generation_yearly_global.csv - EmberStudyAlso: Ember
- Global (CSV) - Ember EnergyStudyAlso: Ember
- How Trump gave the worst polluters a free pass
- Global emissions must fall 45% by 2035, suggests UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2026Study
- Canadian government freezes tailpipe emissions rules until 2030
- European Parliament votes to approve three-year delay on EU methane rulesAlso: ESG Today, safety4sea, EnergyWatch, Brussels Signal, Table.Briefings, ЭкоПолитика, edie, Contexte, ESG Today, EnergyWatch and 15 others
- Twenty years after California's landmark climate law, the state is not on track to meet its targets
- Limiting Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Celsius Is No Longer Feasible, UN Report FindsStudyAlso: Carbon Brief, BigMint
- UN warns world is on track to double global warming unless countries change courseStudyAlso: NPR, The Guardian, Climate Home News, Phys.org, NBC News, Union-Bulletin, MyJoyOnline, niagara-gazette.com, MyJoyOnline, KWSN and 3 others
- Emissions Gap Report Identifies U.S. as Outlier Among G20 NationsStudy
- United Nations report highlights significant increase in U.S. climate pollutionStudy
- Meet the researchers leaving the US because of Trump's funding cuts and politicization of scienceAlso: RiverBender.com
- Trump Administration Renews Effort to Block the Nearly Completed Revolution Wind
- FERC Proposes Blanket Authorization of Certain LNG Projects & Drafts Measures to Weaken Air Quality Reviews of Methane Gas Projects
- Oil Market Report - October 2026Study
- “Stunningly short-sighted.” NOAA grant cuts threaten US climate resilience
- NIH banned-word list kills research over climate change, DEI, genderAlso: Gephardt Daily
- Super pollutants drive half of today’s global warming, yet receive only 1 in every 200 dollars of climate mitigation financeStudy
- Trump goes after an offshore wind farm that’s already up and running
- Climate fingerprints reveal stronger evidence of human-caused warming after more than 30 yearsStudy
- US will rescind policy targeting oil and gas industry methane leaksAlso: YubaNet, KANW, Quiver Quantitative, Forth.News, Representative Gabe Vasquez | (.gov), YubaNet, KANW, Quiver Quantitative, CleanTechnica, Kiowa County Press and 18 others