Climate flashing red — renewables surge
The WMO warned Earth’s climate is “flashing red” this week as record energy imbalances and greenhouse‑gas concentrations drive extreme risk signals (edunovations.com). A new UN review says planetary warming is outpacing most forecasts, heightening pressure on adaptation and corporate resilience planning (earth.org). At the same time Europe is accelerating its clean transition — Germany awarded a record 12 GW wind tender and Spain has roughly doubled combined wind and solar capacity year‑on‑year, signaling real near‑term shifts in energy supply (acerbolivio.com).
WMO’s State of the Global Climate 2025 finds Earth’s energy imbalance reached its highest level in at least 65 years and that 2015–2025 are the hottest 11 years on record, with 2025 about 1.43°C above the 1850–1900 baseline. (wmo.int) The agency reports the oceans absorbed roughly 90% of excess heat and that greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) hit multi‑hundred‑thousand‑year highs, underscoring heat accumulation deep in the climate system. (news.un.org) UN Environment’s Emissions Gap Report 2025 concludes current government pledges only slightly lower projected end‑of‑century warming and models indicate the world is on track to breach the 1.5°C threshold within the next decade. (unep.org) Germany announced plans to put an additional 12 GW of onshore wind capacity out to tender by 2030 and had a pipeline of record permitting (about 20 GW permitted by end‑2025) as it targets roughly 115 GW onshore by 2030. (renewablesnow.com) Spain’s grid operator reports Spain added roughly 7.3 GW of wind and solar in 2024 and industry tallies show about 8–9 GW added in 2025, lifting total installed generation capacity to about 142.5 GW and renewables to roughly 68.9% of the fleet. (ree.es) Policy and market signals are converging: global new installations approached ~170 GW in 2025 in the wind/solar sectors, Spain’s rapid build‑out has trimmed wholesale price exposure (analysts estimate Spain’s power price was ~32% below the EU average after renewables growth), and grid‑connection bottlenecks are emerging as a constraint as permit approvals fell in late 2025. (windeurope.org)
