The UN’s next climate chief will come from an island nation: Grenada’s former climate minister Simon Stiell is in line to replace Patricia Espinosa as executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Reuters reports, citing diplomatic sources familiar with the matter. Espinosa completed her second, three-year term in July. The sources are cited as saying that Stiell will take the helm at the UNFCCC a few months ahead of COP27 in November.

Europe gas pipeline could be ready in nine months: A new European gas pipeline connecting Portugal to central Europe could be up and running within nine months, Spain’s energy minister said Friday, according to the Financial Times. This came after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz backed the construction of a new European pipeline to help wean the continent off of Russian energy and stave off an energy crisis.

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