The Top Climate News for Sunday 18 January 2026:

- Sonam Wangchuk in jail: Climate activist's wife reveals 'conditions are dire'; writing book on prison life

- Budget 2026: Tata Motors bats for incentives to keep entry-level electric cars in the race

- China rare-earth product exports fall as Japan spat draws focus

- Electric Boda Bodas Promise Higher Incomes, but Uganda’s Just Transition Test Looms

- From Forests to Markets: Why Ethiopia’s Coffee Needs Urgent Green Financing

- World needs four times more investment in clean fuel to meet climate goals: WEF

- Mars could be a hidden factor behind Earth’s long-term climate cycles, say scientists

- Ursula von der Leyen: Historic Mercosur trade deal will bring real benefits for Europe’s farmers

- Think Bengaluru Is Only About Tech? Meet The City Powering India’s Flower Economy

- Sunderland Council boosts EV chargers at the city's parks

- Big emitters could ‘fall out’ of key climate policy

- Brazil’s soy trap: More land, falling yields and rising climate risk

- Climate activists dump coal, chain themselves to gates as protest delays Tata Steel Chess start

- Carney rattles Canada auto firms in break with U.S. on Chinese EVs

- IIT Kharagpur inaugurates 2-day Impact RISE 2026 Conclave