Climate change

How do Europe and the US compare on clean tech?

Ben McWilliams

Defence and climate: is a common agenda possible?

How Europe’s defence sector can align to climate goals without compromising security needs

Rebecca Christie, Kädi Ristkok and Simone Tagliapietra

Sovereigns on thinning ice: debt sustainability, climate impacts and adaptation

Matteo Calcaterra, Andrea Consiglio, Vincenzo Martorana, Massimo Tavoni and Stavros Zenios

Preventing future electricity blackouts requires thorough analysis

There is still no clear picture of what led to the Iberian blackout; a comprehensive, evidence-based investigation is essential

Georg Zachmann

Defence and climate: seven points for a common agenda

Beyond the debated public spending trade-off between defence and climate goals lie converging interests

Simone Tagliapietra

Climate change could trigger debt crises, with adaptation providing only partial relief

Climate change is likely to significantly undermine sovereign debt sustainability, especially from the mid-2040s

Matteo Calcaterra, Andrea Consiglio, Vincenzo Martorana, Massimo Tavoni and Stavros Zenios

Green intersections: the global embedding of climate change in policy

Ketan Ahuja, Rim Berahab, Margherita Bianchi, Jason Bordoff, Mauricio Cárdenas, Ruud De Mooij, Karim El Aynaoui, Vitor Gaspar, Heather Grabbe, Ricardo Hausmann, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Wensheng Peng, Avinash Persaud, Simone Tagliapietra, Nathalie Tocci and Xiaochuan Zhou

Making the best of the new EU Social Climate Fund

Governments should employ good practices in tackling building and transport emissions whilst protecting the most vulnerable

Eva Jüngling, Giovanni Sgaravatti, Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann

Europe urgently needs a common strategy on Russian gas

An uncoordinated approach threatens EU energy security and the green transition

Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann

A European climate bond

Irene Monasterolo, Antonia Pacelli, Marco Pagano and Carmine Russo

Climate expenditure for survival

A coalition of willing wealthy countries should provide financing for the net-zero transitions of developing countries

Patrick Bolton, Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Why coalitions of wealthy nations should fund others to decarbonize

Failure to agree on global grants to help low- and middle-income countries to achieve net-zero emissions cannot be the end of the story

Patrick Bolton, Ottmar Edenhofer, Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis, Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Johan Rockström

Streamlining or hollowing out? The implications of the Omnibus package for sustainable finance

EU reporting simplification will result in less information and introduce distortions in the sustainable finance market

Silvia Merler