Category: Report

September 6 2021

BloombergNEF Launches Its 2022 Net-Zero Technology Innovation Challenges

For 2022, BNEF's New Energy Pioneers program has chosen three climate challenges to focus on and will award the Pioneers prize to applicants whose innovations have the potential to solve the following:

August 26 2021

Carbon Capture Can’t Keep Oil Afloat in a Net-Zero World

Oil consumption is unlikely to return to its 2019 peak if emissions are to hit net-zero by 2050, despite a scale-up of carbon capture and storage technologies, according to BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2021 (NEO).

August 20 2021

Climate-Tech Startups for Understanding and Monitoring our Changing Planet

As climate change increasingly impacts the planet, there are some important and urgent challenges to better understand how the world is reacts to rising greenhouse gas levels, to monitor any changes, and to evaluate the role that natural carbon sinks can play in decarbonization.

August 18 2021

Achieving Net-Zero by 2050, BloombergNEF’s Green Scenario: New Energy Outlook 2021

Net-zero emissions can be reached via many pathways by mid-century, but none are easy, and none are certain.

August 16 2021

BHP to Extend Battery Metals Lead With Its Noront Bid

BHP has made an all-cash offer to acquire Noront Resources for $351 million. This represents a 75% premium on an offer made in May by Wyloo, a metals company owned by Andrew Forrest.

August 11 2021

Big Oil’s $198B Divestment Windfall Outpaces Green Spend

The world's largest international oil companies, or IOCs, sold over $198 billion of assets between 2015 and 2020, over four times the amount they invested into clean energy technologies.

August 9 2021

EVs Bite Into Oil Demand But It Will Take a While to Hurt

As demand for road fuels like gasoline and diesel recovers post-pandemic in markets such as the U.S. and Spain, long-term road fuel demand is set to drop dramatically, according to BloombergNEF.

August 4 2021

Net-Zero Demands Strong Action on Emissions by 2030: New Energy Outlook 2021

Setting net-zero emissions targets is suddenly in vogue. Starting with the U.K. in 2019, we now estimate that around 70% of world emissions are either already covered by net-zero legislation, have net-zero emissions legislation under discussion, or occur where net-zero is the policy position of the government.

July 29 2021

The EV SPAC Boom Could Have Been Even Bigger

Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, are still a hot ticket right now for the electric-vehicle sector.

July 27 2021

Better Batteries Tomorrow Need More Lithium Hydroxide Now

For more high-performance electric vehicle batteries, the market needs to plan for more lithium hydroxide today.