Author: Anela Dokso

The political and economic stakes surrounding the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) became sharply visible at COP30, as competing visions for global trade, climate ambition, and industrial competitiveness played out in real time.

As Europe accelerates its transition toward low-carbon energy, the inauguration of Greenlyte Carbon Technologies’ LiquidSolar SNG plant in Duisburg represents a key milestone in industrial-scale synthetic fuel deployment.

Global demand for lower-carbon feedstocks is rising as the plastics sector confronts both emissions pressure and supply-chain volatility.

Global EV adoption is accelerating faster than most recycling systems can keep up. Waste from end-of-life batteries, just 500,000 tons in 2019, is projected by researchers to reach eight million tons by 2040, underscoring a widening gap between electrification targets and the infrastructure required to support them.

A new analysis from the University of Sheffield and the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies warns that the UK’s residual municipal waste is becoming a contested climate resource—one that current policy frameworks risk allocating inefficiently.

China’s grid investment is projected to exceed ¥3 trillion this decade as the country works toward its dual-carbon goals, and the latest agreement between Shanghai Electric and Siemens positions both companies to capture a share of that momentum.

Germany’s decision to allocate €273 million to BMW’s Hy2Move program comes at a moment when the European Union is intensifying support for hydrogen technologies, more than €1.4 billion has already been committed through the IPCEI Hydrogen framework.

Global primary energy intensity, the key metric for measuring improvements in energy efficiency, is projected to rise by 1.8% in 2025, according to the IEA’s latest Energy Efficiency 2025 report, an improvement from 1% in 2024 but still far below the 4% annual increase agreed at COP28 for 2030.

EnergyPathways’ newly announced non-binding cooperation agreement with Siemens Energy positions compressed air energy storage (CAES) as a potential tool for absorbing surplus renewable electricity and delivering multi-day, low-carbon power, a capability conventional battery systems cannot economically provide at scale.

Daimler Truck’s second phase of customer trials for the Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck arrives at a moment when heavy-duty decarbonization strategies are increasingly shaped by data from real-world operations rather than controlled test environments.