Category: Report

April 4 2011

Green Investing 2011: reducing the cost of financing

Introduction The World Economic Forum is proud to release Green Investing 2011: Reducing the Cost of Financing as part of its Green Investing project. The Green Investing project, which was mandated by the Forum’s Investors community at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, aims to explore ways in which the world’s leading investors can most effectively engage in the global effort to address climate change.

March 29 2011

Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2010 Edition

Executive Summary The clean energy race is on. The investment and finance data presented in this report show that countries are jockeying for a leadership position in this growing and increasingly competitive sector. Countries with clear, consistent and constructive clean energy policies are powering investment forward.

March 3 2011

Bloomberg New Energy Finance League Table Results 2010

Introduction 2010 – Global financial investment in clean energy rebounds to signal recovery from recession.

January 25 2011

Green Investing 2011: a preview

In this preview of 'Green Investing 2011: reducing the cost of financing', the World Economic Forum and Bloomberg New Energy Finance summarise the progress in the clean energy sector (as measured by investment, deployment and levelised costs).

January 19 2011

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) White Paper: Sun sets on oil for Gulf power generation

Executive Summary The Gulf Region has some of the world’s best solar resources. However, governments in the region have historically valued oil and gas at cost and have provided their populations with subsidised electricity, two factors which have impeded the development of renewable energy.

January 14 2011

Energy Smart Technologies Leadership Forum – The Results Book

Foreword Welcome to this special publication documenting the Energy Smart Technologies Leadership Forum, which took place at Glen Cove Mansion outside New York City on 27–28 October 2010.

December 21 2010

Liebreich: Clean Energy 2010 – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

By Michael Liebreich Chief Executive Bloomberg New Energy Finance This is the final Monthly Briefing of 2010, so it’s time to ask ourselves how the year will go down in history, and how that compares with our forecasts from the start of the year.

December 3 2010

Weathering the Storm: Public funding for low-carbon energy in the post financial crisis era

Executive Summary Clean energy technology development has arrived at a crucial juncture.

November 26 2010

Liebreich: How to Conjure Up Progress on the $100bn Climate Challenge

By Michael Liebreich Chief Executive Bloomberg New Energy Finance Starting from Monday, the international Climate Change circus will descend on Cancún for the latest attempt at replacing the Kyoto Protocol, which is due to expire in 2012. Last year’s COP15 meeting in Copenhagen ended after two fractious weeks of protests and negotiations, with a document long on commitments but short on details. At Cancún the challenge facing negotiators is to turn the Copenhagen Accord into a binding agreement.

October 28 2010

Liebreich: Power Struggles – The Growing Geopolitical Role of Electricity Markets

By Michael Liebreich Chief Executive Bloomberg New Energy Finance Between 1929 and 1933, in response to a vicious recession sparked by a credit bubble, European powers embarked on a rivalry which would see world trade collapse to nearly nothing within four years – creating the conditions which ultimately led to the outbreak of the Second World War.