Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP31?
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Print article Share More than 92,000 people have registered to attend the COP31 climate summit in Antalya, Turkey, potentially making it the largest COP in history. Carbon Brief analysis of the provisional lists of delegates, published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), reveals that more than 14,000 delegates have been registered […]
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Analysis: Climate-finance pledges fall 70% as countries meet at COP31
Print article Share The amount of public funding pledged to help developing countries tackle climate change has dropped by more than 70% in 2026, according to Carbon Brief analysis. Developed countries are required under UN climate treaties to provide “climate finance” and have traditionally announced multi-year pledges to feed into their global commitments. Most of […]
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Devia Emerges From Stealth With AI Agents for Pharmaceutical Quality Investigations
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A pharmaceutical quality investigation has to do more than close a ticket. It must explain what went wrong, establish the cause, document the response, and show whether the same problem has happened before. Devia, a Zurich-based Visium spin-out emerging from stealth, is applying AI agents to that chain of work while keeping quality professionals responsible […]
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HKUST Builds AI Agent for Autism Screening and Family Support
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On November 11, 2026, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) announced ASD Super Agent, an AI platform for autism screening and family support, with a preliminary area under the curve score of 0.92, a measure of discriminative precision. Further clinical studies and real-world validation are planned before deployment. The platform combines early […]
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TIER IV Helps Adapt Autoware for Munich Autonomous City Bus
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TIER IV and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) announced on November 11, 2026 that their Autoware research center will support development of an autonomous-driving system for a full-size city bus in Munich’s RISE project, which has up to €20 million in German federal funding. Through the center, TUM will draw on experience from Autoware-based […]
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Harvey Partners with Djøf Forlag to Add Danish Legal Sources
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Harvey announced on November 11, 2026, a partnership with Danish legal publisher Djøf Forlag to add licensed Danish legislation, executive orders and preparatory works to its legal AI platform, giving Jurabibliotek licensees a way to research and draft from those materials alongside their own documents. Jurabibliotek’s legislative content is scheduled to become available in Harvey […]
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Armada Starts Dublin Production of Sovereign AI Data Centers
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Armada announced on November 10, 2026, that continuous production had started at Galleon Forge Two, its 90,000-square-foot manufacturing operation inside a Johnson Controls facility in Dublin, and that the first Dublin-built Leviathan modular data center had been completed for Fossefall in Norway. The site is Armada’s first European manufacturing operation and the second Galleon Forge […]
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£12bn offshore wind investment reaches financial close ahead of COP31
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Scroby Sands offshore wind farm, seen from Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. The newly financed Vanguard East and West projects will be developed further offshore in the North Sea. Two major offshore wind projects off the Norfolk coast have reached financial close, securing around £12 billion in investment, backed by what developer RWE describes as the largest non-recourse […]
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Analysis: Fossil-fuel CO2 emissions set to dip in 2026 as Iran conflict hits oil use
Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close Total emissions edge up as land-use emissions rise Land-use emissions rise in 2026 Fossil emissions fall in most major economies Oil emissions fall as coal emissions slightly increase Land sink in 2025 is highest on record Clean energy is offsetting most emissions from rising energy demand Carbon […]
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MIT Secures Up to $52.9M From ARPA-H for Generative AI Herbicide Design
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MIT announced on November 10, 2026 that it will lead a project backed by up to $52.9 million from ARPA-H, the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, to design safer herbicides with generative AI and develop biological systems that break down agricultural chemicals. Called Precision Learning for On-target Weed control (PLOW), the project belongs […]
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Shanghai Electric Uses AI in Gas Turbine Production and Maintenance
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Shanghai Electric announced on November 10, 2026 that industrial AI is supporting blade manufacturing, weld inspection and lifecycle maintenance in its heavy-duty gas turbine business, with its SIMPLE platform drawing on data from more than 60 turbine units and over 1 million cumulative operating hours. The announcement combines equipment-engineering expertise with production and operating data, […]
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Cloudsmith Puts AI Agent Skills Under Artifact Registry Controls
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Cloudsmith announced an AI Agent Skills registry on November 9, 2026, at KubeCon, extending its artifact-management platform to the instruction files and scripts used by AI coding agents. The release adds controls for skill sources, versions and access alongside existing software packages. Skills and Claude plugins now sit in Cloudsmith’s multi-format repositories, which the company […]
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Quantinuum Upgrades Reimei and Broadens RIKEN Quantum-AI Partnership
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Quantinuum and RIKEN announced an expanded partnership on November 10, 2026, after completing Reimei’s upgrade to the 56-qubit System Model H2. The plans include joint work toward a fault-tolerant “Made with Japan” quantum computer and a separate SoftBank agreement to explore bringing quantum-AI hybrid services to Japanese AI data centers. RIKEN marked the expansion with […]
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Otter.ai Adds 13 Languages and Previews Automatic Language Switching
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Otter.ai announced on November 10, 2026 a 27-language expansion of its meeting transcription service, with 13 additions available immediately and 14 more marked as coming soon. The company also previewed a multilingual mode designed to transcribe participants as they change supported languages within one meeting, without manual setting changes. The live additions are Mandarin Chinese […]
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Abandoning net zero could backfire on Labour, new research warns
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Electric bus in Manchester at night: Affordable public transport is among the measures identified by researchers as potentially strengthening public support for climate action. Weakening climate commitments to win back voters from Reform UK could cost Labour support elsewhere, according to new research.1 A study from the University of Manchester suggests that Labour risks worsening […]
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Comment: Greater visibility of waste is the key to prisons meeting recycling targets
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The Green Block says its Mobile Segregation Unit (MSU, pictured) could help prisons improve recycling rates by processing mixed waste on site, while reducing vehicle movements through security gates. Prisons will only close the gap on their recycling targets when they can see what is in their waste, where it comes from and where its […]
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Rail plant emissions trial wins environmental award
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Hydrogen-assisted engine cleaning being carried out on a Balfour Beatty railway tamper. (Image credit: Balfour Beatty). An initiative to reduce emissions from diesel-powered railway maintenance equipment has earned Balfour Beatty recognition in the 2026 International Green Apple Environment Awards. The infrastructure group was selected from more than 700 entries worldwide for its partnership with Engine […]
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Q&A: What is the Belém-Antalya mechanism for a ‘just transition’?
Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close How has a ‘just transition’ featured in UN climate talks? Where did the ‘just transition mechanism’ come from? What role could the mechanism play in facilitating ‘just transitions’? What are the financial implications of the mechanism? What is likely to happen in Antalya? One of the key […]