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Europe’s climate strategy is quietly pivoting, with EU environment ministers signalling a shift toward a more transactional and pragmatic approach in global climate negotiations. The closed-door meeting on February 4 emphasized that Europe can no longer rely solely on consensus-driven multilateralism, particularly after COP30 in Belém, Brazil exposed the limits of political coordination.

As hydrogen projects face rising costs and a growing list of cancellations globally, new data from DNV’s Oil and Gas Decarbonisation in the Gulf Region report underscores why the technology remains strategically central in the Middle East.

Global electricity demand is on track to grow 50 percent faster to 2030 than it did over the past decade,…

Cummins Inc. has terminated its electrolyzer operations, abandoning a business segment that executives projected would generate $400 million in annual…

Public support for Europe’s energy transition remains broadly intact, but consumers increasingly see governments as lagging behind stated climate ambitions.

The steel industry has reached a turning point as the first commercial-scale shipment of hydrogen-produced steel leaves the German-Swedish consortium Stegra, signaling the end of the pilot phase and the start of industrial decarbonization.

Africa’s green hydrogen pipeline tells a story of scale without execution: while developers have announced roughly 38 gigawatts of planned clean hydrogen capacity across the continent, only about 17 megawatts are currently operational.

If the global energy transition were as settled as policymakers claim, oil prices would not still be acting as a…

Global renewable energy capacity continued to expand at record pace in 2024, yet employment growth lagged far behind, rising just 2.3 percent year on year to 16.6 million jobs, according to the Renewable Energy and Jobs Annual Review 2025 published by the International Renewable Energy Agency and the International Labour Organization.

U.S. residential electricity bills have been on an upward trajectory for years. According to federal energy statistics, the average retail price of electricity for residential customers in 2024 hovered around 15 cents per kilowatt-hour, up materially from a decade earlier.