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Europe Is Funding the Connections That Make Renewable Energy Cross-Border
The European Commission has approved €125.81 million for three cross-border renewable-energy actions: two German-Polish heating systems and a Latvian-Lithuanian wind project. The awards focus on the physical connections and coordinated works that make shared energy systems operational.
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Latest analysisEurope Is Funding the Connections That Make Renewable Energy Cross-Border
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Mark and Focus Monthly · September 2026
The Rules of Delivery
Five apparently unrelated decisions reveal how governments and institutions are changing the way policy commitments become operating results.
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Brazil’s Urban Nature Strategy Treats Maintenance as National Policy
Brazil’s draft national strategy for urban nature-based solutions sets a 2026–2035 action plan spanning regulation, finance, justice, maintenance and data.
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Japan’s Circular-Economy Review Shows Where Progress Has Flattened
Japan’s first review of its Fifth Fundamental Plan finds final disposal and circular-business growth broadly on track, while resource productivity, circular inputs, circular-use rates and public behavior need more work.
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Scotland Has Made Environmental Evidence Mandatory for Large Data Centers
From 17 September, every proposed Scottish data center above 50 megawatts requires an Environmental Impact Assessment.
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Australia Is Turning AI Compute Into a National Infrastructure Bargain
Australia is consulting on national standards that would tie large data centers and frontier AI training to power, water, security, skills and community obligations.
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Viet Nam Is Funding Trade Corridors as Climate and Livelihood Infrastructure
Three World Bank approvals connect a port city's roads and drainage, climate-resilient highways in the Mekong Delta and modernized fishing ports.
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Australia Is Regulating Home-Energy Devices Across Their Working Lives
Australia's new national framework treats rooftop-solar inverters, home batteries and electric-vehicle chargers as grid equipment with continuing obligations.
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