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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said the government will push to revise the EU’s 2035 sales ban on new combustion-engine vehicles, proposing options such as delaying to 2040/2045 or adding flexibility like hybrid allowances. He held a meeting on 09.10.2025 with automakers, the Automotive Industry Association and suppliers in Bratislava and will raise the matter with V4 leaders (requesting Viktor Orbán) and the European Council.

MIT researchers propose colocating blue and green ammonia plants to reuse oxygen from green hydrogen electrolysis, reducing lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions by up to 63% compared with current low-emissions approaches. The study (published in Energy & Fuels) was led by William H. Green and colleagues, supported by IHI Japan and the Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability, and the team has filed for a patent.

The Government of Canada is launching its fifth Canadian-dollar green bond issuance this week, including a new 30-year green bond and a re-opening of the February 2025 7-year green bond. The offering builds on $13 billion of green bonds issued since March 2022 and follows a February 2025 7-year order book of over $3.1 billion.

Google will invest an additional €5 billion in Belgium over the next two years to expand cloud and AI infrastructure, including expansions at its Saint-Ghislain data center campuses and adding 300 full-time jobs. The company also announced agreements with Eneco, Luminus and Renner to support new onshore wind farms and will fund free AI training via non-profits for low-skilled workers.

The UK Space Agency announced £380,000 in funding for six satellite- and drone-based climate projects focused on woodland carbon measurement, seagrass protection, sustainable aviation feedstock tracking, and advanced forest mapping. Projects are led by New Gradient, Data Dynamics (with Fangorn), Treeconomy (QUBIST), Amelia Space Technologies, 2Excel, and Plastic-i and will use satellite data, drones and AI to generate operational climate services.

Belgian group Agfa has opened a plant in Mortsel to produce ZIRFON membranes for alkaline electrolyzers used in green hydrogen production. The facility’s development is supported by €1mn in funding from the European Union’s Innovation Fund (reported as $11.76mn in the article).

Framatome and SN Nuclearelectrica (SNN) signed a cooperation agreement to implement the IRIS Project to produce Lutetium‑177 medical radioisotopes at Cernavoda, with commercial service targeted in 2028. The deal covers implementing and operating production equipment and infrastructure and contemplates further radioisotope projects, with 2025 earmarked for significant project development.

More than 30 ministers and senior government representatives meeting in Geneva under the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) committed to stronger policies and increased financing to address housing affordability and sustainability across UNECE’s 56 member states. They adopted commitments to expand public, cooperative, social and community-led housing, adjust land value taxation, curb short-term tourist rentals, and prioritise retrofitting and climate-resilient, energy-efficient construction.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Environment hosted an international CCS forum with Japanese and domestic experts to firm up CCS strategy, regulation, technologies, and social communication to support Taiwan’s net-zero goal. Taiwan targets a CCS contribution of 6 million tonnes by 2035 while Japan shared its 2030 and 2050 storage targets and referenced its 2024 CCS Business Law.