Sustainability

Future-proofing and creative destruction

How EU sustainable finance can find a way forward

Rebecca Christie, Silvia Merler and Dirk Schoenmaker

Investing for tomorrow: long-term investment, economic scale and the green transition

Climate mitigation investment increases with long horizons, economic scale and investor diversity, underscoring long-term capital and climate clubs

Philip Ushchev and Guntram B. Wolff

Defragmenting European Union climate policy

Simplification without carbon price convergence risks deeper fragmentation, higher costs and weaker credibility for the EU’s climate target

Michael Pahle, Darius Sultani and Georg Zachmann

A new European energy policy paradigm revealed by changes in hydrogen strategies

James Kneebone, Ben McWilliams, Olivia Moor and Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez

Nature as equity

How can public money and financial markets work together to protect the environment?

Estelle Cantillon, Rebecca Christie and Heather Grabbe

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

How can carbon credits work better?

New ideas on reaching climate targets as COP30 gets underway

Rebecca Christie, Jos Delbeke and 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

What are governments buying?

How does the European Union manage public-sector procurement, and is there room for environmental goals?

Rebecca Christie, Karolis Granickas, Francesco Nicoli and Marie-Sophie Lappe