Climate Economics Monthly Tusk tasked with decarbonising Poland; IEA optimism Donald Tusk and his pro-EU coalition are making the right noises about phasing out coal usage in Poland, although it remains to be seen how his plans will survive contact with politically powerful... 31st October 2023 · 6 mins read
Climate Economics Monthly UK “green jobs”; lessons from COP28 warm-up acts We were hoping that the recent publication of an experimental dataset on the number of “green jobs” in the UK by the Office for National Statistics would be a welcome distraction from the politics of... 29th September 2023 · 6 mins read
Climate Economics Monthly UK government scores a climate own goal While the Women’s World Cup ultimately ended in disappointment for English supporters, it’s somewhat fitting that climate policy is increasingly being made into a political football. The failure in... 31st August 2023 · 6 mins read
Climate Economics Monthly El Niño + global warming = long-term EM headache “The Boy” is back Much ink has been spilled – not least by ourselves – on the potential impacts of the return of El Niño conditions on commodities and economies. It’s fair to say that some of the... 27th July 2023 · 6 mins read
Climate Economics Monthly The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of climate politics Maybe the record-breaking temperatures in the UK in June drew comparisons with the weather typically seen in spaghetti westerns. Or perhaps we’re just bigger Clint Eastwood fans than we care to admit... 30th June 2023 · 7 mins read
Climate Economics Monthly Ajay Banga does not have a silver bullet Ajay Banga appears to be well qualified to lead the World Bank Group and is as well-placed as anyone to “mobilise” Wall Street cash to fund climate-related projects. However, progress on reducing... 31st May 2023 · 7 mins read
Climate Economics Monthly China rebound to boost emissions; EU targets shipping The pick-up in our China Activity Proxy in March suggests that carbon dioxide emissions from the country ended Q1 growing at the fastest year-on-year rate since mid-2021. With the economy now expected... 28th April 2023 · 5 mins read
Climate Economics Monthly IPCC in brief; a nuanced look at renewable rollouts On the face of it, the chunky 9.6% increase in global renewable electricity generating capacity in 2022 is an encouraging sign of things going in the right direction. But some nuance is in order... 31st March 2023 · 6 mins read
Climate Economics Monthly Peak methane on the horizon; IPCC in synthesis mode The release of the 2023 version of the Global Methane Tracker by the International Energy Agency (IEA) last week once again highlighted how carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are far from the only... 28th February 2023 · 6 mins read
Climate Economics Monthly Central banks contemplate climate mission creep Climate change was front and centre of the discussions earlier this month when a host of heavy-hitters from the world of central banking descended on Stockholm for an International Symposium on... 26th January 2023 · 7 mins read
Climate Economics Monthly Oh no, not another COP… International efforts to halt and reverse nature loss dovetail with aims to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by protecting and expanding so-called carbon sinks, such as forests. But this is only... 30th November 2022 · 7 mins read
