After a year marked by rollbacks of existing climate rules – from weakening deforestation regulations and company sustainability reporting obligations, to postponing emissions trading in transport and buildings – the EU will begin looking forward in its climate debates soon. In countries across the union, meanwhile, governments are focussing on the implementation of the transition, with legislation covering topics from renewable energy support to decarbonising household heating.

Clean Energy Wire’s authors in Warsaw, Brussels, Zadar and Milan, as well as those in the CLEW newsroom in Berlin, weigh in on their expectations for the biggest climate and energy stories in 2026.

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