NEWS

Join us on Tuesday 14 October @ 14:00 - 15:00 

Each year, we invite leading scientists from around the world to review the most pressing findings in climate change-related research. Summarized into 10 concise insights, the result has always been a rich and valuable synthesis for policy and society at large.

The 10 New Insights in Climate Science responds to clear calls for policy guidance during this climate-critical decade.

Thurs, 15 October @ 11:00 (CEST)

1. The energy transition outside the West is real and measurable: nine of ten countries grew solar and wind faster than fossil fuels over 2013–2024, and six already have solar at 10–30 per cent of installed capacity.

2. It is not one transition but several: Chile leads on deployment and minerals with no manufacturing; Indonesia is the mirror image; India is strong downstream and absent upstream; only China is present at every step.

3. Seven of the ten countries are on a measurable transition path. The data to track it remain thin outside China and India, and this paper is a first stocktake, not a final score.

The governments of Kenya and Norway convened the first high-level event on clean cooking ever held at the United Nations General Assembly, bringing together government leaders, ministers, UN agencies, multilateral development banks and other partners to build further momentum ahead of our second Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa.

Seven breached Planetary Boundaries continue to worsen as record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme heat reveal an Earth system under strain, according to the latest Planetary Health Check. The annual update is authored by more than 60 scientists and produced by the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

GREATER’s Final Conference and Exhibition in Kigali showcased project results, practical solutions and community impact, while looking ahead to continued Rwandan-European cooperation supporting Rwanda’s energy transition, universal access to electricity and the reduction of energy poverty.

2 September 2026 at 15:00 CEST