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Emissions rules, adaptation funds and the treaties that decide how fast the world decarbonises.
From Paris to Milan, urban access zones are getting bigger, smarter and harder to argue with. Here is what is changing, and what it means for anyone who drives in.
Only a quarter of the seafloor is mapped to modern standards. A fleet of autonomous vessels is closing the gap — and rewriting the maps on which everything from cables to conservation depends.
Ninety percent of everything still moves by sea. A new network of green corridors is the industry's biggest bet yet that it can decarbonise without waiting for a miracle fuel.
Five countries have agreed to treat the region's railways as one network: shared signalling, shared standards, and a timetable that finally crosses borders the way trucks always could.
The largest single adaptation disbursement on record goes to defending delta cities — not with seawalls, but with marshes, dunes and drainage that pays for itself.
Trillions have flowed into bonds labelled sustainable. Regulators finally forced the labels to mean something — and the market got bigger, not smaller.
Two demonstration reactors under construction will tell the decade's story. A status report on the machines that must turn physics into power plants.