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Worldwide Highlights

• Investors call for bipartisanship in Australia’s climate policy, ahead of the 2025 federal election, concerns about a potential US-style policy reversal are brewing

• Countries must bolster climate efforts or risk war, Cop30 chief executive warns

• Carbon capture industry tweaks message for the Trump era

• The US military has cared about climate change since the dawn of the Cold War

• Energy infrastructure investment manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has raised more than €12bn for investment in new energy transition projects

• Meet the green policy wonks in Germany’s Christian Democrats

• International Federation of Accountants has updated its International Education Standards to embed sustainability competence in the initial training programs for professional accountants

• UBS blames Credit Suisse acquisition as it delays climate targets by a decade [cached copy]

• Australia's Active Super hit with $6.7 million penalty for false environmental claims

• Zara owner Inditex's transport emissions balloon to record highs

• Toyota introduces trio of all-electric SUVs to energize European market

• “Double materiality” is one of the hallmark new approaches introduced by the EU’s new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), requiring reporting both on the risks and impact of sustainability issues on an enterprise, as well as on the enterprises’ impacts on environment and society - Upright launches 50,000 company Double Materiality Assessment Database

• 6 sustainability tech stack components for greener enterprises

UK Highlights

• Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch says UK target to reach net zero by 2050 'impossible' and that the Conservative Party (who, under Teresa May codified it in law) is going to ditch commitment to net zero by 2050

• Peterborough requires £8.8bn to reach net zero

• North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park secures approval for development

• 'The Great Grid Upgrade': inside the National Grid's revamp

• Premier League publishes Environmental Sustainability Strategy

The Daily Climate Sceptic

• American towns and states don't want green energy