Sharon Gaffney

A French court ordered TotalEnergies to account for its clients' emissions in its climate plan, marking the first application of France's Corporate Duty of Vigilance law to climate change. The ruling was initiated by the NGO Notre Affaire à Tous.

Models and physical arguments suggest the 2026 El Niño event could have an amplitude as high or higher than any in the last century. This assessment comes from Paul Roundy, a professor at the State University of New York at Albany, who cited tracking warm water progress as evidence.