In brief | 12 September '25
Bloomberg: Germany to push EU to extend industry free permits to emit CO2
Germany plans to push the European Union to soften emissions-reduction rules for its most polluting industries as the nation struggles to cope with higher energy costs.
Financial Times: Germany’s industrial heartland braces for AfD wave
Local elections set to cement right-wing shift in North Rhine-Westphalia, a former Social Democrat stronghold.
Guardian: Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with climate crisis disasters
Children as young as three will have lessons on wildfires and flooding under 10-point emergency response plan.
AFP: Carmakers to push EU for 2035 combustion-engine ban rethink
Europe's biggest carmakers are to hold talks with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Friday (12 September).
Boston Consulting Group (BCG): Electricity demand is booming, has entered structural supercycle
Firm, dispatchable power is resurging, with demand trajectory for oil and gas higher than expected, says BCG energy transition report.
In Global Hydrogen Review, agency forecasts "robust expansion" to 2030.
Bloomberg: The future of flood-fighting is being charted in Hong Kong
Intense storms in recent years have pushed the government and businesses to upgrade their responses to rain and flooding, and those efforts are working.
