💚🌊 The GreenWave Podcast By Synergy International 🌊💚 Episode 48 is out and you don't want to miss this one!

Living over Confidently in a Wetter World with Bad COPs

COP30 Shifts from Warm Up Laps to Full Political Overdrive

🔥 Brazil’s environment minister Marina Silva has pushed the spotlight onto a voluntary roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels. It is not on the formal agenda but it is rapidly becoming the gravitational centre of the summit. Sixty two countries now support the concept. More than forty remain uneasy. That tension is exactly what makes this moment consequential.

🌱 A voluntary roadmap sounds soft but everyone in climate finance knows the real story. Voluntary frameworks have a habit of becoming de facto market signals. If ministers leave Belém with even a sketch of a pathway that resembles a phase out, investors will start recalibrating risk models, term sheets and capital allocation overnight. Read more...

IEA Electrifies Global Energy Outlook with Multi-Scenario Future

📊 The IEA now frames this with three scenarios. Current Policies shows a world that adds no new policies and drifts toward roughly 2.9 degrees of warming. Stated Policies reflects measures already announced and moves the dial only to around 2.5 degrees. Only the Net Zero pathway holds a narrow line on 1.5 degrees and it demands much faster electrification, efficiency and grid build out than we currently see.

🛢 In that context the return of the Current Policies Scenario matters. It shows oil and gas demand rising to 2050, with coal easing back before 2030. In the more optimistic Stated Policies case, coal and oil peak this decade while gas demand continues to rise into the 2030s. The gap between these pathways is widening, not closing, which is a clear signal of deep policy divergence globally.

🔌 Across all scenarios electricity demand climbs sharply as vehicles, heating, cooling, data centres and industry plug in. Grids become the pinch point. Investment in generation is racing ahead while permitting, flexibility and networks drag behind, which creates congestion, curtailment risk and volatile prices. Read more...

The Latest Sustainability Developments

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EU proposes major overhaul of SFDR to simplify ESG disclosures The European Commission put forward a redesign of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation aimed at clarifying product labels and cutting reporting costs, a big deal for asset managers and sustainable funds across the EU.

California climate-risk disclosure law blocked, but emissions rule moves ahead A court temporarily blocked California’s wide-ranging corporate climate-risk reporting law even as a separate emissions-reporting rule continued to advance, underlining how climate disclosure is becoming a legal battleground.

SBTi opens pilot for updated timber and wood-fiber climate pathway The Science Based Targets initiative invited companies to pilot-test its updated pathway for timber and wood-fiber, tightening expectations on land-use sectors that are central to deforestation and nature-positive supply chains.

CITES CoP20 – Date: November 24–December 5, 2025 Location: Samarkand, Uzbekistan (#ThinkLandscape)

UNCCD CRIC23 (Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention) – Date: December 1–5, 2025 Location: Panama City, Panama (#ThinkLandscape)

7th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) – Date: December 8–12, 2025 Location: UNEP Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya (#ThinkLandscape)

Earth Summit 2025–26 (NABARD & IAMAI) – Date: December 5–6, 2025; February 2026 (exact dates TBC) Location: Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar; New Delhi, India (The Times of India)

World Future Energy Summit - Date: Jan 13–15, 2026, ADNEC Centre, Abu Dhabi.

Sustainability Week 2026 (Economist Impact) – Date: March 2–4, 2026 Location: Intercontinental London – The O2, London, United Kingdom (events.economist.com)

Climate Week New Orleans 2026 – Date: March 15–22, 2026 Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (Climate Week)

Climate Week Hawaii 2026 – Date: March 22–29, 2026 Location: Hawaii, United States (Climate Week)

Climate Week Atlanta 2026 – Date: March 29–April 4, 2026 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Climate Week)

ChangeNOW - Date: Mar 30–Apr 1, 2026, Grand Palais, Paris.

DC Climate Week 2026 – Date: April 20–26, 2026 Location: Washington, DC, USA (DC Climate Week)

Climate Week Zurich 2026 – Date: May 4–9, 2026 Location: Zurich, Switzerland (climateweekzurich.org)

Climate Week 2026 (Climate Change & Sustainability Conference) – Date: June 18–19, 2026 Location: London, United Kingdom (climateweek.thepeopleevents.com)

2nd International Conference on Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability – Date: October 8–9, 2026 Location: ART Hotel Narita, Tokyo (Narita, Chiba), Japan (climatechange.c2pforum.com)

Greenbuild - Date: Oct 19–22, 2026, Javits Center, New York City.

UN 2026 Climate Change Conference (COP31) – Date: November 2026 (exact dates TBC) Location: Host country/city TBC (Australia–Turkey bid under discussion) (esgdive.com)