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Thank you so much for reading TME!

Today’s edition is a bit different! I am enjoying some much-needed holiday and precious time with friends and family. 🫶🏼

But don’t worry! The 25th issue of TME is available right here! 🗞🗞🗞

Below are the week's key headlines, plus a gorgeous picture of a perfect vacation day. ☀

Next Monday we will be back with the usual format. See you then! 🎈

🎯 UNEP's 2026 Emissions Gap Report calls 1.5°C overshoot unavoidable and sets steep cuts of 18 per cent by 2030, 45 per cent by 2035 and 69 per cent by 2040 to return by 2100

🗓 EFRAG's fatal-flaw review window on the 2026 Draft List of Datapoints for the revised ESRS closed on 23 October, with the final resource expected end-2026 and a draft XBRL taxonomy consultation to follow

🚨 AI-assisted researchers uncover two critical PHP remote code execution flaws, triggering emergency patches on the language behind roughly 70 per cent of websites and reframing digital-infrastructure resilience as a sustainability issue

🌳 CBD COP17 opens in Yerevan with the Yerevan Declaration adopted 16 October, Astrid Schomaker calling for “accountability, alignment and acceleration” and Armenia's Hambardzum Matevosyan elected president