In brief | 12 November '25

Carbon Brief: IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned

The world’s fossil-fuel use is still on track to peak before 2030, despite a surge in political support for coal, oil and gas, according to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Find the IEA report and a press release here.

IKI: Jobs and skills for the new economy – an action agenda for a people-centred climate transition

Report with new analysis on how adaptation to the realities of climate change, technological innovation, demographics and geopolitics affects people, skills and labour markets.

Germanwatch: Ranking shows how extreme weather events hit many poor countries particularly hard

2025 edition of Climate Risk Index by Germanwatch.

E3G: The End of Addition: Clean energy’s economic and political takeover 

There is political momentum behind a full-scale transformation of energy systems rather than just a greening of its margins.

Bloomberg: Germany’s SEFE to end long-term LNG deal with Russia by 2027

Germany’s SEFE — the former Gazprom unit nationalised by the German government after the invasion of Ukraine — plans to end a gas-import deal with Russia by January 2027.

ETH Zürich: How electric cars and heat pumps can help Switzerland implement its Energy Strategy

In future, flexibly operated heat pumps and electric cars could reduce both electricity imports and electricity prices.

ECFR: From climate to defence, inertia could be the EU’s undoing – commentary

Europe’s strategic reports are filled with urgent calls for speed and agility. But amid fierce global competition, Europe is still lecturing while other major players deliver results.

Bloomberg: Germany must ensure return to sound finances, Bundesbank says

The central bank, which advises the government on economic policy, proposed a three-stage plan to lower debt, and repeated a call to better focus hundreds of billions of euros of spending on defence and infrastructure.