Sustainability

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

Climate, data and complacency

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

Rebecca Christie, Heather Grabbe and Guntram B. Wolff

What are the trials ahead for EU sustainable finance and climate insurance?

Silvia Merler

European Green Industrial Policy at a Crossroads? A Pilot Set of Conjoint Experiments Among Policy Experts

Francesco Nicoli and Marie-Sophie Lappe

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

China can decarbonise the world – but even that won’t fix its overcapacity problem

China is on track to meet global green-tech demand but needs to pivot from manufacturing to infrastructure

Alicia García-Herrero and Haoxin Mu

Measuring GDP at risk in the low-carbon transition

Our model provides a bird’s eye view of a country’s exposure to transition

Dirk Schoenmaker and Willem Schramade

No green growth without innovation

This Policy Brief is a reissue of a Policy Brief published by Bruegel in November 2009

Philippe Aghion, David Hémous and Reinhilde Veugelers

Are Europe’s clean industrial goals at odds with those of the Global South?

Simone Tagliapietra

Building coalitions for climate transition and nature restoration

A four-pillar strategy could align key climate and economic goals into global trade

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Jeromin Zettelmeyer