💥🔎NEW INVESTIGATION: We reveal how, under now-Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi, Hungarian intelligence spied in Brussels against the EU, attempting to recruit Hungarians working in EU institutions.

@direkt36.bsky.social @papertrailmedia.de @spiegel.de @tijd.be @larsbove.bsky.social @hmnzngr.bsky.social

✨ The European Press Prize 2026 is open for entries!

We’re seeking the best journalism published over the past year — work that informs, inspires, & makes a difference. If you’ve written a piece you’re proud of, we want to see it!

🗓️ Submit before 14 Dec: www.europeanpressprize.com/before-you-e...

⬇️I spoke with Maria Garriga Zamora about her work at @climatewhistles.bsky.social, protecting insiders who dare to blow the whistle on emissions fraud, greenwashing or systemic negligence

Beyond legal frameworks and policy, she said a narrative shift is needed and protection "truly takes a village"

🌳Want to know more about tile taxis, tree nurseries and floating offices?

My colleague @carokyllmann.bsky.social wrote an important article about urban resilience in Europe - the fastest heating continent where 75% of the population live in cities

www.cleanenergywire.org/news/europe-...

The majority of Europe’s population lives in urban areas – where the risks from heatwaves, drought, floods and rising sea levels are growing fast

For my latest deep dive for @cleanenergywire.bsky.social, I looked into what Europe’s cities are doing to increase resilience🧵

Climate activists call EU-US trade deal “disastrous signal for climate action”

- Agreement would massively increase EU imports of US fossil fuels
- Chancellor Merz says deal avoids hardship for German economy

www.cleanenergywire.org/news/climate...

Journalists from the Nordic and Baltic countries: You can now sign up for an #IJP fellowship to join a German newsroom for 2 months

🇩🇰 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 🇮🇸 🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹

Deadline: 15 August
Maybe see you at Clean Energy Wire..? 👀
ijp.org/en/programme...

"The unprecedented case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was the brainchild of a group of young law students from low-lying Pacific islands on the frontlines of climate change, who came up with the idea in 2019."

#ICJ ruling says countries can sue each other over climate harm, also historic emissions

It is non-binding but could have wide implications

➡️ Fossil fuel subsidies and new oil/gas projects could be a breach
➡️Developing nations can seek damages for climate change impacts
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Brazil’s environment minister told @mcivillini.bsky.social she has advocated for a roadmap to end fossil fuels to be agreed at COP30:

“The worst possible thing would be for us to not plan for this transition.”

Journalists from from low- and middle-income countries can now apply for the #COP30 fellowship to cover the conference in Belém, Brazil

🤝Organised by @stanleycenter.org and @earthjournalism.bsky.social
⏰Deadline: 15 July
earthjournalism.net/opportunitie...

A large group of Dutch legal experts is calling on Prime Minister Schoof of the Netherlands to hold Israel accountable for war crimes in Gaza. www.trouw.nl/binnenland/h...

Important piece by @peter-yeung.bsky.social: The EU Just Transition Fund has spent less than 3% of its budget to support regions' shift away from fossil fuels

Part of the reason: "No one has the skills"

Lack of skills is a major bottleneck for the energy transition
www.context.news/just-transit...

💥Breaking: Orbán's government backs off its foreign agent law, delaying it indefinitely (no vote before autumn), citing the need to study feedback.

🇪🇺Sources tell me key ministers—Tibor Navracsics, Gergely Gulyás, and Antal Rogán—oppose it, fearing public backlash and EU retaliation via Article 7.

Happy to be part of the jury for this storytelling prize focusing on just transition

⏳ Make sure to enter your work by 28 July

Heavy rains and floods cost German insurers €2.6 billion last year, one billion above long term average

"The consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly noticeable"

www.cleanenergywire.org/news/heavy-r...

🚨🚨 @ec.europa.eu has told Hungary to scrap its Transparency of Public Life bill or face possible legal consequences.🧵
euobserver.com/rule-of-law/...

Days after immigration reforms threatened the UK's ability to recruit electricians internationally, the electrical sector reports that electrician numbers could drop by a third by 2038.

They have already fallen by over 25% since 2018- and need to rise considerably for construction and energy goals.

Stripping German foreign office of climate responsibility risks weakening international dimension – experts

www.cleanenergywire.org/news/strippi... #COP30

Lekelia Jenkins ist Meereswissenschaftlerin - und Tänzerin. Ihre Kunst setzt sie bewusst als Kommunikationsmittel ein. @carokyllmann.bsky.social und @miloudirkx.bsky.social haben sie gefragt, wie Wissenschaftstanz praktisch aussieht und ob er wirkt
www.klimafakten.de/kommunikatio...

12 Offshore TSOs are striving for integrated offshore grid to strengthen European energy independence

Establishing North Sea as Europe’s ‘green power plant’ will play crucial role in securing independent, affordable and decarbonised energy supply, companies say

www.tennet.eu/de-en/news/1...

AI Data Center Growth Means More Coal and Gas Plants, IEA Says

Growth in artificial intelligence-focused data centers will drive demand for gas- and coal-fired power plants, according to new report

Must-read piece by @miloudirkx.bsky.social on far-right governments seeking migrant workers needed for Europe's move to #ClimateNeutrality

My brain did do a double take when first reading the headline, I must admit... #waitwhatnow?!

I wrote about how despite fuelling anti-immigration sentiments, European far-right leaders are letting in migrant workers needed for the energy transition

🇮🇹 🇭🇺 Including the Meloni & Orbán governments, with workers facing v poor conditions in Hungary
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/closed-...