The world’s climate fight will reach a key milestone at this year’s COP28 summit in the UAE with the unveiling of the Global Stocktake, the first major update on progress – or lack of it – towards meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement ratified in 2016.

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 propelling energy security to the forefront of political priorities, in some cases sparking a renewed focus on oil and gas activity, the decarbonisation agenda has never been so complex.

With COP28 and the Global Stocktake just weeks away, Recharge, the leading global source of news and analysis for the energy transition, and its sister title Upstream, which provides exclusive news and insight about transition strategies of the world’s oil and gas industry, will in October bring leading figures from business, technology, policy and finance together to give their verdicts on progress since Paris and what needs to happen next.