💚🌊 The GreenWave Podcast By Synergy International 🌊💚 Episode 51 is out and you don't want to miss this one!

Pod 51 Sounds a Warning Call Over 🇪🇺's CBAM Policy in 2026

China's Ramped-Up Electrification Billows Hard-Power Emissions

🇨🇳 Markets love big themes and right now artificial intelligence and China electrification are two of them. The AI story can wait until autocomplete on our phones stops making very basic mistakes. The electrification story in China deserves a closer look today, especially as it drives for a hard-power edge against the US via ramped-up electrification input into AI compute.

⚡ The headlines focus on spectacular new high voltage lines and ultra modern transmission corridors across China. That infrastructure is real and impressive. The core question for sustainability is different. What matters is where the electrons come from. Recent data on China’s electricity mix still shows around 67% from thermal plants that burn fossil fuels. Wind contributes around 9% and solar around 5%. Hydro and nuclear fill most of the remaining gap. The system is certainly electrifying. The generation that feeds it still leans heavily on coal and gas. Read more...

Who Knew Labour's Price to Modernise Energy Could Be So High?

⚡ Ofgem has unlocked an initial £28 billion for gas and high voltage electricity networks, with around two thirds for gas and the rest for transmission, and a total grid buildout that could rise toward £90 billion by the end of the decade. Household network charges are expected to rise by about £180 a year by 2031, with system efficiencies and lower gas imports aiming to narrow the long run impact to roughly thirty pounds a year.

📈 The noisy headline is the headline increase in consumer utility bills, although the deeper story is investment returns. RIIO 3 moves closer to market conditions with a 6.1% real cost of equity at 60% gearing for transmission. That figure shapes whether pension funds, infrastructure investors, and sovereign capital view British networks as investable, especially when they can deploy into unregulated assets in other regions. Undershoot and the £90 billion plan drifts. Overshoot and customers carry the burden. Read more...

The Latest Sustainability Developments

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World Bank + Global Fund partnership on “sustainable health financing”: New MoU aimed at mobilising at least US$2bn over three years to strengthen primary healthcare systems and financing in developing countries. (worldbank.org)

UNEA-7 opens in Nairobi: The UN Environment Assembly convenes (8–12 Dec) with governments and stakeholders to negotiate resolutions under the theme “Advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet.” (UNEP - UN Environment Programme)

Copernicus climate update: Copernicus reports 2025 is on course to be joint-second warmest year, with November the third-warmest on record, reinforcing how little “safe margin” remains on temperature trends. (climate.copernicus.eu)

EU agrees to simplify CSRD/CS3D sustainability reporting + due diligence: EU Council and Parliament reach a provisional deal to reduce reporting burden and limit “trickle-down” obligations on smaller firms. (consilium.europa.eu)

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)