Climate change

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

Europe’s Clean Industrial Deal: four priorities to fulfil its promise

The Clean Industrial Deal presents an opportunity for Europe, but quick action is needed on four priorities to deliver its goals

Ben McWilliams and Simone Tagliapietra

A Strawman Proposal to Use International Flexibility in Achieving Developed Countries Climate Targets to Catalyse Global Decarbonisation

Georg Zachmann

Coffee and chocolate lovers should want EU deforestation rules in force without delay

A new pause in implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation is regrettable and should not lead to weakening of the law

Heather Grabbe

China’s race to electrification

Is China turning into an “electrostate” — and how will that change the balance of global energy?

Alicia García-Herrero, Ben McWilliams and Yuyun Zhan