Market design
Can EU green manufacturers ever compete with low-cost imports?
Economic security – an idea that encompasses a broad set of interconnected elements including supply chain resilience, research integrity, and…
Weekly data: how captive coal plants are driving global coal growth
At the end of 2021, it seemed that coal was on its way out. The previous year, China's leader Xi…
A heat pump alternative for a quarter of UK homes
Household heating is the source of 17% of the UK’s carbon emissions. Most of the country’s homes are still heated…
“Extraordinary” clean energy growth keeping 1.5°C door ajar – IEA’s Laura Cozzi
During October, the International Energy Agency (IEA), a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, released two key reports analysing global progress in…
UK North Sea oil and gas licences to be set annually, require net-zero checks
Licences for new oil and gas projects in the UK North Sea are set to be awarded annually and require…
Are forest-based carbon offsets worth saving?
More than half of the world’s largest public companies have committed to an emissions reduction target and many plan to…
Data insight: nine sectors beyond IT and heavy industry reach corporate renewable PPA landmark
Corporate renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs) have long been dominated by heavy industry and the IT sector. Amazon, Meta, Google…
European corporate PPA market scores record 7.8GW in 2023
AMSTERDAM – Companies have procured a record-breaking 7.8GW of new corporate renewable power purchase agreements (PPA) in the Europe in…
Data insight: 21 out of 27 EU countries have now registered corporate renewable PPAs
Just six countries out of the EU 27 have yet to host corporate renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs), after four…
Can biodiversity credits stem the extinction cascade?
In all the justifiable panic over climate change, it is easy to forget the world also faces a biodiversity crisis.…