Energy
News
Oil and gas industry on brink of major surge in expansion – new drilling plans approved through 2025 could exhaust 17% of the global carbon budget for 1.5°C
A new briefing launched today at COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh by Oil Change International reveals that new oil and gas production approved to date in 2022 and at risk of approval over the
MDBs’ Climate Finance in Low and Middle-Income Countries Reaches $51 Billion in 2021
Climate finance committed by major multilateral development banks (MDBs) rose by more than 24% last year compared to 2020, according to the 2021 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance released
Chen Long: Creating a Digital Circular Economy for Net Zero (podcast)
In the podcast Economics & Beyond, hosted by Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking Rob Johnson, Rob and Chen discuss the results of a new report on
Reports
Talk is Cheap: How G20 Governments are Financing Climate Disaster (Oil Change International)
This report by Oil Change International details public support for energy projects from G20 public finance institutions (such as overseas development aid agencies and export credit agencies) and multilateral development
Sustaining Fuel Subsidy Reform (CFR)
Economists widely agree that the subsidies, which reduce consumer prices for petroleum and natural gas below free-market prices, often strain government budgets, fail to target poverty efficiently, and distribute benefits
Market-Based Instruments for Energy Efficiency (IEA)
This IEA report, commissioned by G7 energy ministers, presents the first global overview of market-based instruments (MBIs) for energy efficiency, such as auctions, energy efficiency obligations on utilities and white
