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
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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
Climate policy has long been relegated to the sidelines in Tanzania. The late President's vision for economic growth can be achieved only if his successor puts Tanzania on a climate-resilient development pathway, argues Timo Leiter. Read more
What is offshore wind energy? Offshore wind power is energy generated by turbines located in the sea. The majority of... Read more
Decarbonising the power sector means reducing its carbon intensity: that is, reducing the emissions per unit of electricity generated (often... Read more
Bob Ward comments on the publication of the Trump Administration’s alternative to President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. Read more
To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, the use of fossil fuels must peak and then rapidly decline. This research investigates the impact of climate change policy on capital invested in fossil fuel power plants, especially coal - so-called ‘dirty’ assets. Read more
We investigate the combined effect of an Emission Trading System (ETS) and renewable energy sources on electricity generation investment in... Read more