Why the Iran Oil Shock Is Doing What Climate Policy Never Could

This week in sustainability, one story dominated everything else — and it is not the one you would expect.

The Iran War is turbocharging the clean energy transition at a speed no policy ever managed. BYD showrooms in Manila sold a month's worth of EVs in two weeks. VinFast in Hanoi quadrupled customer visits. In San Francisco, petrol hit $6.81 a gallon and used EV dealers are overwhelmed with appointments. Pakistan is saving $6.3 billion this year by using solar instead of oil.

And one fact that stopped me in my tracks: Southeast Asian countries now have EV adoption rates of around 40% — higher than the UK and Europe.

In this week's top 10 sustainability news countdown, we cover all of that, plus:

• Why Qatar's largest LNG plant emitted the equivalent of 20,000 cars' annual CO2 in just three weeks
• How long-duration iron-air batteries are reshaping the data centre energy story
• Why poor countries will face 10 times more heat deaths than rich ones by 2050
• What New York's climate law U-turn tells us about building resilient carbon strategies
• The UK flood insurance scandal that is benefitting the wealthy instead of the vulnerable
• And three mind-blowing environmental facts you will not hear anywhere else this week

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