In the lead up to COP26, Glasgow has become the latest city to install a climate clock. Glasgow City Council and UK youth climate activists will light-project the clock, which will show the rising percentage of the world’s energy generated from renewables, and how fast we need to get to 100% to stay below the 1.5°C warming tipping point, onto the city’s Tolbooth Steeple. More here

Backed by the Global Legal Action Network, six young people in Portugal are taking 33 countries to the European Court of Human Rights for failing to do their part to avert climate catastrophe. The case was filed last September. The six activists and their legal team now have to respond to the 33 governments’ defence. More here

Landor & Fitch industrial design lead Jack Holloway writes in Design Week about the creative opportunities afforded by new legislation aimed at tightening product standards to ensure more of our electrical goods can be fixed rather than thrown on the scrap heap. Story here

The London Design Biennale will run until 27 June with artistic director Es Devlin’s Forest for Change as its centrepiece. Devlin has built an installation featuring over 400 trees in the Somerset House courtyard. References to the UN’s 17 Global Goals are interspersed throughout. Design Week has a round-up of what’s on here

Bloomberg Green reports on Circ, a one-time paper pulp manufacturer, has a process to recycle the polyester-cotton blends currently filling up landfills into new clothes. Previously, blended poly-cotton fabric recycling processes tended to degrade materials too much to make them reusable. Circ says its process can recover 90% of the original materials in a reusable state. Story here

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