Gurkirat Singh Johar

If 2024 was the year climate technology proved it could work, and 2025 was the year it proved it could compete on cost, then mid-2026 is shaping up as the year it must prove it can scale. The International Energy Agency's 2026 State of Energy Innovation report, released this quarter, identifies more than 150 notable innovation developments across the energy landscape this year alone — including advances in perovskite solar cells, fusion energy, sodium-ion batteries, and next-generation...

As the world moves through the second half of 2026, the countdown to COP31 in Antalya, Turkey this November has entered its most consequential phase. The conference — scheduled for November 9 to 20 at the Antalya Expo Center — represents what climate diplomacy observers are calling the most important implementation summit since the Paris Agreement itself was adopted in 2015. The difference between Paris and Antalya is fundamental: Paris was about setting targets, COP31 is about delivering...

July 2026 has delivered a sobering set of climate signals that, taken together, paint the picture of a planet whose climate system is accelerating in dangerous directions. Record-shattering heat has swept across North America and Europe simultaneously, the developing El Niño is now forecast to become the strongest in recorded history, global ocean temperatures have hit a new all-time record, and a landmark scientific paper has rebutted a US government report that misrepresented decades of...