Climate change

European clean tech tracker

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

Benjamin Bjerkan-Wade, Marie Jugé, Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Ben McWilliams, Roberto Rossini and Simone Tagliapietra

Europeanised energy infrastructure planning is a good idea if done right

A European Commission bid for more central oversight of energy infrastructure planning promises benefits if buy-in of EU countries can be secured

Alexander Roth

Resource Productivity: Europe’s Overlooked Route to Economic Security

Heather Grabbe

The case for delaying the application of the EU’s carbon border levy to electricity

The inclusion of electricity in CBAM creates more problems than it solves; ways should be found to exempt it

Ben McWilliams, Rouven Stubbe and Georg Zachmann

How can carbon credits work better?

New ideas on reaching climate targets as COP30 gets underway

Rebecca Christie, Jos Delbeke and Georg Zachmann

Why are distributional effects an obstacle to a competitive EU energy system?

Georg Zachmann

The solution to Europe’s housing affordability crisis must include building decarbonisation

The EU can help tackle Europe’s housing crisis by reducing energy costs, decarbonising buildings and adhering to climate goals

Ugnė Keliauskaitė

How can the EU show leadership at COP30?

Ugnė Keliauskaitė

Different routes to decarbonisation: EU carbon pricing versus China’s green tech

Alicia García-Herrero

Breaking the economy: How climate tail risk and financial conditions can shape loss persistence and economic recovery

Andrea Mazzocchetti, Irene Monasterolo, Nepomuk Dunz and Arthur Hrast Essenfelder

Climate, data and complacency

Why economists need to take the costs of climate change more seriously

Rebecca Christie, Heather Grabbe and Guntram B. Wolff

Convergence, not alignment: EU-China climate relations ahead of COP30

Trade and other tensions between the European Union and China should not be allowed to derail joint work to cut emissions

Cecilia Trasi

The EU clean industrialisation process: Developments tracking and policy insights

Simone Tagliapietra