How much does saving a kWh cost a customer who supports energy efficiency initiatives, such as financial incentives, technical assistance, education and energy audits? This thorny question is answered in great detail in “The Cost of Saving Electricity Through Energy Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers 2009-2015,” from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California. Nearly every US state offers energy efficiency programmes. LBNL provides crucial metrics for assessing when not consuming a kWh can reduce overall cost.

The readiness of 114 countries to transition away from fossil fuels to a renewable energy economy is tracked by the World Economic Forum in its “Fostering Effective Energy Transition,” with number crunching by McKinsey. The report is packed with hard facts on different approaches and levels of success. WEF sees the index as a tool to “identify imperatives and align policy and market enablers,” and create energy transition roadmaps. No country can do it alone, says WEF.

Fund managers have a pressing fiduciary duty to re-examine their holdings in a sector that is “freighted with risk” says the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis in “The Financial Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment.” The report systematically details the cumulative risks undermining the fossil fuel sector and meticulously rebuts arguments against divestment, calling them “dangerous” and “a breach of fiduciary standards”. The fossil fuel industry is not too big to fail, says the IEEFA.