Since #EveryDayIsEarthDay, happy Earth Day! Today’s issue focusses on last week’s bombardment of climate pronouncements:

• Climate summit pledges ‘barely move the carbon needle’. But change is still coming for every part of the energy industry

• Pledges: The good, the bad and the ugly, and what they mean for power

• Final thoughts: 2030 is the new 2050

• Earth Day news round-up

• Transmission lines – Energy transition stories you might’ve missed

• Energised minds – Critical thinking on crucial energy issues

Climate summit pledges ‘barely move the needle’

For all the fanfare around Earth Day, the tighter emissions reductions pledged by the world’s biggest polluters would make only a small dent in the soaring trajectory of the earth’s greenhouse gas inventory. The promises also lack firm actions required to achieve them, which is where progress tends to get bogged down.

Pledges from industrialised nations narrowed the 2030 ‘e…