Category: Report

April 24 2024

Oil’s $25 War Premium on Iran-Israel Risk Can Rapidly Fizzle Out

Crude oil prices slipped amid rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, which seems counterintuitive as conflict in the region can lead to major supply risks.

April 19 2024

China Already Makes as Many Batteries as the Entire World Wants

The cell oversupply picture is going to get worse before it gets better.

April 16 2024

Mega Boost for Carbon Offsets Market Seen from SBTi Easing

The role of carbon offsets, or tradeable verified emission reduction credits, has historically been limited with the UN-backed standards body — Science Based Targets Initiative or SBTi — restricting their use to cover a small volume of ‘residual emissions’. Its announcement to allow wider use of offsets means that a high-quality voluntary carbon market is one step closer.

April 9 2024

BloombergNEF Announces 11 Climate Innovators as the Winners of the 2024 BNEF Pioneers Award

BNEF’s annual Pioneers award recognizes game-changing technologies or innovations with the potential to accelerate the transition towards a net-zero economy across three key climate challenges.

April 8 2024

G-20 Members’ Climate Policy Progress Stalls

The world’s largest economies have made limited progress in boosting their decarbonization policies over the past year – a red flag for climate action as the urgency of the crisis ramps up.

April 4 2024

Electrified Transport Market Outlook 1Q 2024: Speed Bumps

With 4.4 million units sold globally in the fourth quarter, and 13.7 million in 2023 as a whole, electric vehicles made up 18% of total passenger vehicle sales in the world last year. However, a likely slowdown in annual growth rates is on the horizon.

April 3 2024

Big Oil Pivots Away From Renewable Power on Low Returns

The oil and gas sector is shifting away from renewables and power in its decarbonization efforts, according to BloombergNEF’s latest analysis of the energy transition investment trends in the industry.

March 28 2024

Citi, JPMorgan First Adopters of Energy Finance Ratio

Citigroup Inc. has joined JPMorgan Chase & Co. in agreeing to disclose to investors their clean energy financing ratios, or the proportions of their low-carbon to fossil-fuel financing activity.

March 27 2024

Lack of Capital Isn’t the Problem in Meeting Net-Zero Bill

Climate change won’t be a cheap problem to solve, with the race to net-zero emissions needing $4.8 trillion to be spent every year between now and 2030 on clean energy technologies.

March 21 2024

No Doubt About It: EVs Really Are Cleaner Than Gas Cars

As electric vehicles become a bigger part of the global car fleet, a contrarian take seems to surface every few months: are electric vehicles really that clean?