This paper studies the impact of reduced water availability on hydroelectricity generation, a central piece in the low-carbon transition, in Europe and the United States. Read more
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This joint report from the Grantham Research Institute and Systemiq contends that the world has in its hands a new growth and development story driven by investment and innovation in green technology, boosted by artificial intelligence (AI) – and this is a much more attractive and inclusive story than the dirty and destructive paths followed in the past. Read more
Response to the call for evidence made as part of the Independent Review of Net Zero commissioned by the UK's Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Read more
A rumoured plan from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to dramatically restrict solar panels on farmland in the UK will not help food security – which is threatened far more by climate change – let alone energy security, and is at odds with the Government’s Net Zero Strategy. The UK should be seeking to invest and innovate in ‘Agri-PV’ schemes instead, writes Leo Mercer. Read more
Elizabeth Robinson and Esin Serin consider how far we should be relying on technological fixes in the mission to reach net zero. Read more
This report draws attention to some of the important lessons learned from the past few decades regarding the economic pre-conditions for price stability, as contained in the ECB’s 2021 strategy. Read more
The race is on to ‘consign coal power to history’. The end of coal power generation is a climate – and economic – imperative. There can be no healthy economy without a healthy planet, says Danae Kyriakopoulou. Read more
Half (52%) of all carbon offsets awarded to Indian wind farms under the Clean Development Mechanism were given to projects that would very likely have been built anyway, finds new research published today (3 November 2021). Read more
In this paper the authors develop and implement a new method for identifying ‘wasted’ subsidies, and use it to provide systematic evidence on the misallocation of carbon offsets in the Clean Development Mechanism, the world’s largest carbon offset programme. Read more