Category: Report

June 27 2022

Startup Innovations for Scaling Carbon Removal: BNEF Climate-Technology White Papers

There is an urgent need to scale new climate technology innovations that can deliver equitable, economic and timely decarbonization.

June 24 2022

Decarbonizing Aviation Needs Disruptive Technologies

BloombergNEF expects average fuel efficiency of the global aircraft fleet to continue to improve this decade primarily with existing technologies. In the long term, however, disruptive technologies will be needed.

June 21 2022

Race to Net Zero: The Future of Oil, Gas and Coal in Five Charts

While the world is looking to curb emissions and pivot to cleaner sources of energy, the use of coal, oil and gas won’t disappear overnight.

June 14 2022

Net Zero Could Mean Fewer Cars on Top of Switching to EVs

While adoption of electric vehicles is increasing in markets like Europe and China, consumers will need to dramatically accelerate their shift away from petrol and diesel cars for the global passenger fleet to reach zero tailpipe emissions by 2050.

June 14 2022

Two-Wheelers on a Steeper Path to Zero Emissions by 2050

Two-wheeled vehicles like motorcycles, mopeds and scooters represent the largest segment of road transport, with global sales reaching 82 million in 2021.

June 14 2022

Rising Gas Prices Threaten China’s Gas Power Ambitions

Gas power plants in China are facing negative profit margins under current gas and power prices.

May 26 2022

Utilities Want More Energy Storage But Supply Remains Low

Although developers are rushing to bring more battery projects online – and demand remains strong – high battery pack prices, global shipping bottlenecks and other supply chain constraints are dampening near-term deployments,

May 23 2022

Risk Capital to Fund Net-Zero Industry, Not Asset Managers

Industrial decarbonization will require massive amounts of capital investment over the next 30 years. Decarbonizing steel alone will require $278 billion in additional capital, according to BloombergNEF.

May 18 2022

Zero Emission Vehicle Transition Council: Progress Dashboard

In 2022, BloombergNEF is supporting the work of the Zero Emission Vehicle Transition Council, an international forum that convenes governments representing over half of the world’s car market, to accelerate the pace of the global transition to zero-emission vehicles.

May 16 2022

Reform Needed to Unlock $550 Billion Carbon Offsets Market

A natural side effect of growing net-zero commitments is a higher aggregate dependence on voluntary carbon offsets.