Since the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Glasgow in November 2021 (COP26) the world has changed dramatically. In February 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine led to a war that is still going on, and no one knows when and how it will end. This war has also implications for the transition of fossil to non-fossil energy, required to achieve the target of the 2015 Paris Agreement. In this third editorial on the (bumpy) road to carbon neutrality in 2050, I will summarize the recent developments in a bird’s eye view.