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9 min.
11/September/2020

The big role of small companies in the energy transition

 The big names of the corporate world will not achieve the energy transition alone. Companies of all sizes have a part to play
6 min.
29/June/2020

How Covid-19 could supercharge the green bond market

 Work on mobilising the global bond market to finance the low carbon transition has received an unexpected boost at the hands of the Covid-19 pandemic. Green bond issues are vastly oversubscribed as investors show a clear preference for putting their money into shifting society in a new and better direction
11 min.
11/June/2020

Central banks swept up in climate action debate

 Many believe the ECB and other central banks should bring climate considerations into the rulebook governing what they support and how
12 min.
01/June/2020

Development banks struggle with fossil fuel lock-in

 The world’s development banks are funnelling ever-greater volumes of finance into clean energy — but the challenge of shifting entire economies away from climate-wrecking activity and towards actions that align investment goals with those of the Paris Agreement requires a more holistic approach
9 min.
25/May/2020

Staying committed to renewables makes investment sense

 Despite the massive economic downfall as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, there remains strong demand for renewable energy assets, suggesting the sector will not suffer as it did after the 2008 recession
10 min.
04/May/2020

EU ushers in game-changing financial rules

 An EU taxonomy to define green investments is expected to enter into force in 2021, but some experts want it to be used immediately to inform stimulus packages aimed at dealing with the social and economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic
10 min.
27/April/2020

Getting the finance to flow

 To create demand for sustainable finance, governments should integrate climate criteria into their procurement and in how they draft policies and regulations
7 min.
09/April/2020

EU prepares to throw weight behind electric trucks

 Electric cars as the best lower carbon replacement for the internal combustion engine is a done deal for many, but how to decarbonise the haulage sector is an ongoing debate. Increasingly, policy makers and truck manufacturers in Europe seem ready to embrace electric solutions for trucks as well as smaller vehicles
4 min.
26/March/2020

European development bank money at work in Macedonia

 The EBRD is increasingly active across the whole of Southeast Europe, which remains highly reliant on coal, to move it to cleaner energy sources
8 min.
19/March/2020

Biodiversity must not be sacrificed to the energy transition

 With the world facing an energy and a biodiversity emergency, realisation is growing that solutions need to be made compatible with sustainability in both areas
7 min.
12/March/2020

How best to measure the climate impact of methane

 Deciding exactly how powerful methane is as a greenhouse gas relative to carbon dioxide is a complicated business
15 min.
27/February/2020

Where to direct support for hydrogen without wasting money

 As with any technology, the key to cost reduction is the rate at which the technology is deployed, but the hydrogen economy is moving forward slowly
11 min.
20/January/2020

Carbon removal enters mainstream climate debate

 Much as in the energy transition debate, the big question is who pays for carbon removal
6 min.
12/January/2020

Open source software to speed up energy transition

 Open source software can facilitate sector coupling through vehicle-to-grid or building-to-grid technology
7 min.
06/January/2020

Swedish public housing project goes off-grid

 Energy expert Brian Vad Mathiesen from Aalborg University in Denmark describes Vårgårda’s system as a “limousine solution”
13 min.
12/December/2019

Big scope to reduce Chinese cement production emissions

 The overproducing cement sector is a low-hanging fruit that could help China curb its vast carbon emissions
13 min.
04/September/2019

Cities get creative on climate financing

 Energy Cities, a European association of local authorities, estimates a city will need between €1 billion and €3 billion to reach net zero emissions by 2050
6 min.
Research by Siemens shows the way forward to make district heating in Denmark run on clean energy sources26/April/2019

The path to emissions-free district heating in Denmark

 Research by Siemens shows the way forward to make district heating in Denmark run on clean energy sources
14 min.
07/February/2019

The Dutch Energiewende: Goodbye to natural gas

 The Netherlands faces an unprecedented transformation as it aims in the next 30 years to switch off its gas supplies in favour of cleaner fuels
14 min.
Parked electric vehicles plugged into the electricity network with charged batteries could sell stored power back through the network. Nissan is the first to qualify a car battery system to sell its stored power into an existing market for primary regulation services to maintain grid frequency28/January/2019

Real life vehicle-to-grid seeks market opportunities

 Parked electric vehicles plugged into the electricity network with charged batteries could sell stored power back through the network. Nissan is the first to qualify a car battery system to sell its stored power into an existing market for primary regulation services to maintain grid frequency

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