For sectors such as grids and energy storage, managing the complex risks of financing projects and assets is now a significant barrier to growth, writes Reiner Boehning of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners in an article on the Recharge website. The financing gap threatening to slow trillions in clean energy investment Capital is not the primary … Continue reading Clean energy has the capital — but can it underwrite the risk?
Category: energy transition
When it comes to micro-enterprises and energy statistics, invisibility is no superpower
The Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy Foundation (IEECP) has published a new report on micro-enterprises and data deficiencies. Micro-enterprises represent major share of EU firms and account for almost 19.8% of EU value added, yet they remain invisible in energy statistics and energy efficiency policy evaluation. This invisibility is not only a matter … Continue reading When it comes to micro-enterprises and energy statistics, invisibility is no superpower
Americans want data centres to pay their energy way
The Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University has announced a new climate note on what Americans think about data centres. What are your views? New analysis: What do the Six Americas think about data centers? We are pleased to announce the publication of a new Climate Note, “What do Global Warming’s Six … Continue reading Americans want data centres to pay their energy way
The political backlash against climate disclosure reaches the Big Four
Jorja Siemons writes on the Bloomberg Law website on the politicisation of climate-related financial disclosure in the US. Support for international climate-reporting standards is now being portrayed by Republican state officials as potentially incompatible with auditors’ independence. Big Four’s Past Climate Reporting Support Draws State Scrutiny More than a dozen Republican state attorneys general … Continue reading The political backlash against climate disclosure reaches the Big Four
Don’t trust the green claim — check the data
In an article on The Conversation website, Lala Rukh, PhD Candidate, Energy, University of Galway; Atlantic Technological University, discusses how consumers in the EU already have a powerful tool for seeing through greenwashing, but remarkably few know it exists. The free EU database that tells you if an appliance is actually green When something breaks … Continue reading Don’t trust the green claim — check the data
Energy in Demand News, August 23-24, 2026
The Trump administration is doing everything possible to crush California’s environmental policies that have been respected world-wide, New York Times reports. “Mr. Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have blocked California from setting its own limits on automobile pollution, which federal law has permitted since the 1970s. The Energy Department has announced $75 million … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 23-24, 2026
Europe’s wildfire future: prevention helps, but climate action is essential
Tim Schauenberg writes on the Deutsche Welle website that Europe can reduce the growing wildfire threat through prevention and better management, but ultimately cannot manage its way out of continued climate warming. In another summer of European wildfires that have even seen wetlands burning, scientists say the situation is set to worsen in the future. … Continue reading Europe’s wildfire future: prevention helps, but climate action is essential
Cooling AI in the ocean — solution or new environmental problem?
In an article on The Conversation website, Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro, discusses the tension between AI’s enormous infrastructure needs and the environmental consequences of moving that infrastructure into the sea. AI companies look to the ocean as a place to put more data centers The artificial intelligence … Continue reading Cooling AI in the ocean — solution or new environmental problem?
Net zero needs standards — will ISO 14060 deliver?
The International Organization for Standardization opened a public consultation on the draft version of its Net Zero Standard in June 2026. The draft includes requirements for transition planning, emissions-reduction targets and pathway-setting, net-zero action, and counterbalancing residual emissions. Eve Fraser and Thomas Day write on the New Climate Institute website review the draft and provide … Continue reading Net zero needs standards — will ISO 14060 deliver?
The ‘forever chemicals’ hidden in the clean energy transition
In an article on the Deutsche Welle website, Stuart Braun questions whether the technologies intended to solve one environmental crisis depend on chemicals that create another. As nations globally move to ban forever chemicals, should renewable energy technologies be exempt for the sake of saving the climate? Can we go green without forever chemicals? … Continue reading The ‘forever chemicals’ hidden in the clean energy transition
