Climate change

Procrastination not dismantlement now threatens the European Green Deal

The temptation to water-down the European Green Deal under pressure from the far-right must be avoided to keep the EU's green trajectory

The economic case for climate finance at scale

This policy brief examines the economic case for advanced-country financial support for replacement of coal with renewable energy sources in EMDEs

How Europe Can Get the Green Deal Done

Lessons from the European Union’s inaugural Hydrogen Bank auction

The EU’s first subsidy auction for renewable hydrogen went about as well as could have been hoped

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

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