June 2026 – Week 1
In this week’s live blog, we are taking a broader look across climate and energy, covering the key news, developments and comments.
As part of an expanded focus on real-time coverage, this live blog will continue to track developments across global energy markets, including electricity prices, oil and gas benchmarks, and renewable generation trends. But we will also track key climate news and events, including impacts such as extreme weather events as they happen.
It is updated every day throughout the week with the most significant developments around energy and climate.
Last week’s live blog can be found here.
Key developments we are tracking this week:
- The fallout and the impacts of the unprecedented record heat in Europe and beyond
- How the Middle East crisis drives volatility across oil, gas and electricity markets
- Policy shifts driven by the energy crisis
Latest
Monday 1st of June 2026
12:55 GMT
Extreme heat: More from the Met Office, as our calendars read the 1st of June and meteorological summer begins in Europe and the northern hemisphere, they chronicle how summer has changed in the UK in recent decades.
Their explainer looks at trends such as how the summer of 2025 compares to the record-breaking summer of 1976 and the first measurements of 40 degrees C in 2022.
12:50 GMT
Extreme heat: The UN body, the World Meteorological Organisation, and the UK’s Met Office last week released a report warning that more temperature records are ahead.
The organisation predict that in the next five years we will see the global temperature record broken again.
Earlier updates
Saturday 30th of May 2026
19:45 GMT
Oil price: The oil futures are again reacting to geopolitical news, as Brent Crude and WTI on Friday reached a two month low after another surge in optimism of a US-Iranian peace deal.
Friday 29th of May 2026
19:15 GMT
Heatwave: The record-breaking heatwave in the UK has exposed the country’s infrastructure as one that is not fit to deal with extreme heat events, as some areas in England ran out of water.
01:40 GMT
Temperature records: Portugal has joined the UK and also recorded a new all-time high temperature for May.
The country recorded 40.3°, measured in the central town of Mora, beating the previous record of 40°C set in May 2001.
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