Under the Hood of Emerging Markets’ Energy Transition
Emerging markets have big plans when it comes to the energy transition. Today, 95% of developing economies have a renewable energy target in place, and many of them are seeing massive growth in solar ...
5 Des 202420min
Climate-Tech Finance: India Surges, China Slumps
Climate-tech funding is falling precipitously. During the third quarter of 2024, worldwide investment in the sector reached just $10.3 billion, a far cry from the $22.6 billion raised in the third qua...
27 Nov 202428min
Burning Issue: Peak Coal Close But Demand Lingers
“It looks like coal weather today,” is an unlikely forecast, but it shouldn’t be. Coal production and consumption are linked to weather, and the return of a La Niña weather cycle has the potential to ...
20 Nov 202437min
Gone With the Wind: Turbine Additions Still Fall Short
Wind is key to tripling global clean energy capacity by 2030, but in recent years both onshore and offshore additions have been blowing cold. The landscape improves as we look ahead to 2030, when Bloo...
13 Nov 202440min
Current Investments: Expanding the World’s Power Grids
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” This proverb is just as apt if you swap out “trees” for “grid investment.” Some $326 billion flowed into the world’s powe...
7 Nov 202431min
Catch Me If You Can: EU Trails US On Clean-Tech Policy
Tariffs and subsidies loom large in the energy transition. The US Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, has been of global importance, changing trade relationships and causing some governments to rethink t...
30 Okt 202428min
Heavy Transport Maps Out a Low-Carbon Future
Heavy transport is at a crossroads. There are many possible paths for decarbonizing aviation, maritime shipping and long-haul trucking, including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), ammonia, methanol and...
24 Okt 202441min
Who Gives a COP? UN Biodiversity Summit Expectations
This month, 196 parties are converging in Cali, Colombia for the 16th United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity (COP16). Less famous but no less significant than its climate-focused sibling (w...
16 Okt 202429min
