In an article on The Conversation website, Styliani Panetsidou, Assistant Professor of Finance, Coventry University and Angelos Synapis, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance, Centre for Resilient Business and Society, Coventry University help us understand how banks operate, what they finance and how transparent they are intersect with climate realities. How banks affect the … Continue reading “Behind every transaction lies a financial system that quietly shapes not only our economy but also – less visibly – our planet”
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New UNEP report updates the cost of adaptation finance needed in developing countries
Amid rising global temperatures and intensifying climate impacts, UNEP’s 2025 Adaptation Gap Report: Running on Empty finds that a yawning gap in adaptation finance for developing countries is putting lives, livelihoods and entire economies at risk. In 2021, rich countries vowed to spend more to help poor countries adapt to warming. That goal is unlikely … Continue reading New UNEP report updates the cost of adaptation finance needed in developing countries
Energy in Demand News, October 26-27, 2025
The EU's national leaders spent their summit venting frustration about the bloc's green transition — and ultimately agreed on language that demands no specific changes to climate legislation. Politico wrote that leaders ultimately refrained from bulldozing the EU’s climate targets, agreeing to a vaguely worded commitment to a green transition, though without committing to a 2040 … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, October 26-27, 2025
EIB Investment Survey 2025 – European Union overview
The European Investment Bank’s EIB Investment Survey is conducted annually and includes data from approximately 13 000 firms in all EU Member States plus a sample from the United States. The survey provides information on firm characteristics and performance, past investment activities and future plans, sources of finance and the financing issues businesses face. Key … Continue reading EIB Investment Survey 2025 – European Union overview
Energy in Demand News, October 5-6, 2025
Extreme weather and climate change caused more financial damage in Europe between 2020 and 2023 than it did in the whole preceding decade, the Financial Times reports. “The average annual economic losses in the EU associated with increasingly intense heat, floods and other extreme weather amounted to €44.5bn between 2020 and 2023, two and a … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, October 5-6, 2025
Another business-led effort from the financial sector to fight climate change is unraveling
In an article on The Conversation website, David L Levy, Professor Emeritus of Management, UMass Boston and Rami Kaplan, Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University discuss how net-zero alliances in the financial sector never made much business sense and were not particularly effective at fighting climate change. Do you agree? … Continue reading Another business-led effort from the financial sector to fight climate change is unraveling
Energy in Demand News, September 28-29, 2025
Trump to World: Green Energy Is a Scam and Climate Science Is From ‘Stupid People’ That was quite a headline for the New York Times account of President Trump berating everyone at the UN General Assembly this week… everyone who fell for “the greatest con job ever perpetrated”, the carbon footprint “hoax” and the “green … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, September 28-29, 2025
Energy in Demand News, September 21-22, 2025
An EU directive, known as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, approved in 2024 is causing problems for American oil companies. The New York Times reports that the Executive Director of Exxon, Darren Woods, is now urging Europe to rescind this directive which makes companies track climate pollution. Woods called the EU regulations one part … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, September 21-22, 2025
EBRD and EU launch green investments in the West Bank
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Union (EU) launched the Green Economy Financing Facility (GEFF) programme in the West Bank in an effort to support the transition to a greener economy. The newly rolled-out GEFF programme will provide up to €25.9 million of senior unsecured loans to four local financial institutions for gender-responsive on-lending to Palestinian micro, … Continue reading EBRD and EU launch green investments in the West Bank
Why would oil companies invest in clean energy at all, especially at a time when many federal clean energy incentives are being eliminated and climate science is being dismantled, at least in the United States?
In an article on The Conversation website, Michael Oxman, Professor of the Practice of Sustainable Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, asks a fundamental question concerning major oil companies? What are your views? Why do big oil companies invest in green energy? Some major oil companies such as Shell and BP that once were touted … Continue reading Why would oil companies invest in clean energy at all, especially at a time when many federal clean energy incentives are being eliminated and climate science is being dismantled, at least in the United States?
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