Major automotive polluters among top recipients of European green funds
Carmakers, oil and gas companies, and textile manufacturers are among the biggest recipients of European green funds, despite being significant…
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Leading with an invisible hand: what role will private finance play at COP28?
As global leaders spend the next two weeks hammering out decisions relating to the future of our planet at COP28…
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Climate finance surpasses $1trn a year
Six years on from the Paris Agreement, annual climate finance flows across the globe surpassed the $1trn mark in 2021,…
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Beyond the H2ype: why the World Bank should be cautious on green hydrogen
Green hydrogen is being promoted as a fuel that will turn our industry, transport and electricity green. Several Latin American,…
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“Extraordinary” clean energy growth keeping 1.5°C door ajar – IEA’s Laura Cozzi
During October, the International Energy Agency (IEA), a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, released two key reports analysing global progress in…
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Weekly data: Republican states are hoovering up most of Biden’s IIJA clean energy and power funds
November marks the two-year anniversary of Joe Biden’s 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a key feature of the…
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How CBAM threatens Africa’s sustainable development
In pursuit of sustainable development, African nations are on a mission to boost trade. The African Continental Free Trade Area…
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The EU is offering as much green funding as the US IRA. So why aren’t innovators getting it?
This week, the European Commission published a report analysing what needs to be done to promote the development and deployment…
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Weekly data: 2023 is the China Belt and Road Initiative’s greenest year ever
During the first half of 2023, China’s energy-related engagement through the BRI was the greenest of any six-month period since…
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National Grid pays out billions to shareholders while investment in transmission network declines
Britain’s energy network operator National Grid has paid out almost £28bn ($34.3bn) in dividends to shareholders since privatisation, while the…
