Green infrastructure
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…
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,…
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,…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
What happened to Chinese FDI in eastern Europe’s renewables sector?
The quiet Romanian village of Ratesti lies not far from the banks of the Arges river, 91km north-west of the…