In a landmark achievement, global investment in the low-carbon energy transition surged to a record $2.1 trillion in 2024, marking an 11% increase from the previous year, according to BloombergNEF’s “Energy Transition Investment Trends 2025” report. Key Drivers of Growth According to BloombergNEF (BNEF), the significant uptick in investment was … [continued]
Fossil fuel funding from wealthy countries continues to exceed their pledges to shrink the amount they give to prop up the industry.
Politics aside, the Southeastern US is emerging as an epicenter of rapid decarbonization, with electric vehicles front and center.
RMI experts Sam Butler-Sloss and Kingsmill Bond distill the energy transition down to five crucial concepts.
How much money will it take to address climate change? McKinsey says it’s a lot less than it will cost if we don’t do it.
Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By Rachel Cleetus, policy director with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. The climate crisis is here, and we know we need to make deep cuts in heat-trapping emissions to limit the worst of future impacts. That … [continued]
Courtesy of Rocky Mountain Institute By Josh Brooks, Dan Cross-Call, & Heather House 2020 did not go according to plan, to say the least. But that did not stall North Carolina’s drive forward on clean energy. Over the past year, state officials, utilities, and a broad set of stakeholders worked … [continued]
Courtesy of RMI. By Mark Dyson & Becky Xilu Li With extreme cold stretching across half the United States, the past week has seen unprecedented power outages in the central part of the country, and particularly in Texas. Millions of people remain without power as the state’s grid operator, ERCOT, struggles … [continued]
Throughout history, there have been times when the introduction of technology met the needs of the public and a fundamental shift was set in motion. This has been the case with the steam engine, the automobile, the telephone, the computer, the internet… just to name a few. While all of … [continued]
It is often argued that natural gas is an important bridge to a completely renewable energy economy. I have bought into that a bit, but some recent studies have really made the case for natural gas questionable, at best. One of those studies is linked above, and another is … [continued]
