This report sets out a framework of just transition expectations that investors can use in conducting due diligence and assessments of companies, engaging with portfolio holdings and allocating capital. The framework is based on international standards and emerging practice and is applied to five companies in the European electric utilities sector. Read more
Jasmine Tillu explains how China’s new ‘Leading Small Group’ can accelerate China’s environmental and economic goals by focusing on cities and working to peak carbon emissions by 2025 instead of 2030. Read more
This report uses a new data-driven online tool, the Green Transition Navigator, to analyse the green competitiveness of the seven individual G7 member states and invited countries. Read more
Nick Robins explains why the real test for the just transition to net zero will be in the global south. Read more
Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber propose ‘green offsets’ to reduce property taxes in a way that is strictly scaled to energy efficiency, as a simple intervention to address the UK’s urgent need to reduce its residential carbon emissions. Read more
This report sets out core elements of an overarching and integrated strategy for recovery from the COVID-10 pandemic and growth, as a contribution to the preparation for the G7 Summit taking place in Carbis Bay, Cornwall (11 to 13 June 2021). Read more
The world should invest at least $3 trillion more every year in sustainable infrastructure and nature to drive the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the transition to a zero-emissions and climate-resilient global economy over the next decade, according to a new report that was requested by the UK Prime Minister ahead of the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. Read more
Bob Wards highlights errors in a recent article by Steve Baker MP that claims “the poorest will pay the highest price for Net Zero fantasies”, part of an apparent ramp-up in the misinformation campaign by British climate change deniers. Read more
This policy report sets out why central banks in the EU need to adopt net-zero strategies, and provides seven concrete recommendations for how they can. Read more
Following a new landmark report from the IEA which says the global energy system reaching net-zero by 2050 means no new supplies of fossil fuels, Bob Ward assesses the implications for the UK’s oil and gas industry. Read more
