Climate change

Climate change, the next big financial threat

A warming planet poses new risks to European sovereign debt. How can the continent protect itself?

Beyond the numbers of EU national energy and climate plans

The authors conduct a simple relative frequency analysis for a series of words mentioned in the NECPs to identify interesting policy insights within

Price stability is all about climate change

The European Central Bank should bring in cheaper greening funding for banks, to offset the impact of high interest rates on the energy transition

EU-China relation and de-risking global decarbonisation

Spend it at home: current account surpluses in the EU

EU leadership needs to identify the factors that hold investment back and the incentives that could persuade investors to stay in Europe

European clean tech tracker

This tracker provides an overview of the main innovation, manufacturing and deployment trends in clean tech in Europe

EU air quality agreement sends a positive signal but leaves loopholes

EU air quality agreement sends a positive signal but leaves loopholes

Implementation of tighter EU air quality standards will need careful monitoring in case of circumvention

Four questions for Germany’s big hydrogen power plan

Germany’s hydrogen strategy will have ripples across Europe and should be discussed more widely

The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation: Implications and Policies

Climate policies carry political costs, but those costs can be mitigated

Climate policies must be calibrated carefully if they are to be accepted by the public and thus not hurt politicians’ electoral chances.