The UK Climate Change Committee said the government must cut power costs to meet a mid-century net‑zero target, including removing 'green levies' from energy bills. The committee reported 2025 greenhouse gas emissions fell 1.8% YoY and are 50% below 1990 levels. Chair Nigel Topping warned the shift to clean power is not progressing fast enough and said stronger government support to accelerate EV and heat‑pump adoption is essential to meet climate goals and save costs, adding that political unce

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in prepared remarks to the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday that U.S. economic national-security policy will be guided in part by the need to reduce vulnerability to potential adversaries cutting off critical supplies. "We will build resilience before crises occur," he said, urging supply-chain reviews to assess vulnerabilities in the military, hospitals, energy systems and the financial system. Bessent said the U.S. should develop sufficient domestic production capacity to ensure Americans are not subject to critical overseas bottlenecks.

June 23 — At the Kremlin, President Putin accused Western states of inflating the Russian military threat, saying they openly discuss preparing to go to war with Russia and are boosting military budgets and offensive capabilities to justify large defense spending and aggressive militarization. He said Russia is prepared to respond rapidly and appropriately to any external or internal threat, and warned that while Western states have not yet launched actions from their territories against Russia, they understand such moves would trigger retaliatory strikes.