How the IMF can transform for net zero
This year, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s 2024 annual Spring meetings fell on the 80th anniversary…
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Nick Ferris
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Nick Ferris is senior data journalist at Energy Monitor. He has previously worked at The New Statesman, The Independent, Greenpeace Unearthed, and The Straits Times. He is a graduate of the prestigious MA in Investigative Journalism at City University. Contact Nick at: nick.ferris [at] ns-mediagroup.com
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How Europe’s energy crisis boosted fracking prospects in the Middle East
A new era of fracking has emerged in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Across the region, countries are…
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Can natural hydrogen play a role in net zero?
In 1987, a crew sent to drill water wells in the village of Bourakébougou, Mali, came across something unexpected. After…
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Weekly data: grid investment in China more than every other country combined
The electricity grid is at the heart of the energy transition. Electricity’s share of final energy consumption is set to…
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How clean cooking has ‘moved to the top of the energy agenda’
In Africa today, four-out-of-five people continue to cook their meals over open fires. Globally, around 2.3 billion people are burning…
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The trailblazing EU policy set to decarbonise the global shipping industry
At the end of January, the largest cruise ship ever built set sail on its maiden voyage from Miami. Longer…
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Weekly data: why scrapping a key UK heat pump target threatens net zero
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has to plan for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 because his predecessor – and…
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Exclusive: Renewables M&A activity falls for the first time in five years
Renewables are booming. Low carbon, cheaper than fossil fuel generation in many markets, and able to be built on both…
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How India electrified 45% of its railway network in just five years
Electric rail transportation was first introduced in India all the way back in 1925, when a 16km section of railway…
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Weekly data: LNG deals boom in 2023 as oversupply concerns also grow
The global LNG industry is booming. After pipeline gas exports from Russia plummeted following the country’s invasion of Ukraine, imports…