Category: Opinion

March 11 2019

Bullard: Ask your central banker if climate change is hurting you

By the time financial companies realize just how natural disasters and rising seas will affect their business, it will probably be too late.

February 27 2019

Liebreich: Green New Deal – Trumpism With Climate Characteristics?

Michael Liebreich Senior Contributor BloombergNEF One of the most iconic images from the COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 was the occupation of the conference center by protesters holding signs reading “We won’t leave until you reach a fair, ambitious and legally binding agreement.” Of course no such deal was reached, but the protesters […]

February 18 2019

Bullard: Dispelling the Myths of China’s EV Market

A number of myths and misconceptions still drive much of the perception of China's role in electric transportation.

January 7 2019

Bullard: 10 Charts That Tell Us Where We’re Headed

Climate change, electric vehicles, energy efficiency: What do the 2018 numbers tell us about 2019 and beyond?

December 7 2018

Liebreich: Two Business Cycles to Prepare for A Low-Carbon World

BNEF Senior Contributor Michael Liebreich takes the temperature of climate politics and examines the underlying reasons to be cheerful about the low-carbon transition.

October 29 2018

McCrone: Electric Cars and the Response of Tax-Strapped Governments

By Angus McCrone Chief Editor BloombergNEF Honeymoons are a time of passion. Afterward, the mood may cool just a little as the realities of washing dishes and paying mortgages sink in. Electric vehicles are currently in a honeymoon phase. You can see that in investors’ eyes: according to BNEF’s figures, Chinese EV companies accounted for […]

October 15 2018

Bullard: Tech Investments Are Powering Up Clean Energy

This article first appeared on Bloomberg View and the Bloomberg Terminal. By Nathaniel Bullard This week, my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Shira Ovide took a close look at U.S. tech company capital expenditures. Three years ago, Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. spent $40 billion on big-ticket physical assets; last year, they invested $80 billion, […]

September 24 2018

Bullard: Why Power Companies Love Drones

This article first appeared on Bloomberg View and the Bloomberg Terminal. By Nathaniel Bullard There are already 170,000 small, unmanned aerial vehicles licensed in the U.S., and the Federal Aviation Administration predicts another half-million more of them to be airborne by 2022. Drones are everywhere, doing all sorts of things, including delivering hamburgers and beer to golfers. They’re taking group […]

September 13 2018

Liebreich: Planes, Trains and Automobiles – the Electric Remake

By Michael Liebreich Senior Contributor  Bloomberg NEF In my article this March entitled Beyond Three Thirds, The Road to Deep Decarbonization, I referred to the vast opportunities that beckon in clean energy and transportation beyond the core markets of wind, solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Today I want to take a deep dive into commercial […]

August 29 2018

McKerracher: How City Policies Are Reshaping Auto Markets

Colin McKerracher, Head of Advanced Transport, Bloomberg NEF Automakers are facing a new challenge that’s cropping up from Beijing to Brussels: city regulations pushing them towards cleaner vehicles even faster than national policy goals. In the past, it was all much simpler. Automakers had to juggle various national and regional policy frameworks – fleetwide CO2 […]