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May 10, 2025

Federal Workforce Cuts: A Timeline and Their Threat to Climate Action

Since Donald Trump returned to the presidency in 2025, his administration has aggressively downsized the federal workforce, which has disrupted key agencies, especially those responsible for environmental protection and climate action. Through executive orders and agency actions, tens of thousands of federal employees have been dismissed—some of which has been ruled illegal— posing serious risks […]

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Filed Under: Carbon Markets, Energy Economics, Energy Markets Tagged With: Climate Finance, Energy Markets, Energy Security, Resilience

April 15, 2025

Geoengineering – Climate solution or folly?

It is commonly established among the climate scientific community that there is not a ‘silver bullet’ solution to address climate change and its effects. Instead, many have advocated for a ‘silver buckshot’ that takes a multi-pronged approach to address climate change (although some say a buckshot is not enough either). Does geoengineering serve as one […]

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Filed Under: Climate Change, Energy Access, Global Environments Tagged With: Climate Finance, Energy Markets, Energy Security, Resilience

December 15, 2024

Takeaways from NERC’s 2024 Reliability Assessment

For summer 2024, NERC estimated that much of North America would remain at risk of supply shortfalls, with seven key areas, including portions of Texas, California, New England and the Midwest at particular risk. 

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring the stability of the continent’s grid system. Originally formed as the North American Electric Reliability Council and founded in 1968, its successor, also known as NERC, launched in 2006.  The group’s mission is to “assure the effective and efficient reduction of risks to […]

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Filed Under: Carbon Markets, Energy Economics, Energy Markets Tagged With: Climate Finance, Energy Markets, Energy Security, Resilience

January 15, 2016

Post-Paris Agreement: FREE’S Focus on Subnational Climate Action

By Job Taminiau and Joseph Nyangon Accelerating climate action and finance at subnational level based on the Paris Agreement. The 21st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP 21 (also known as the Paris climate summit) closed in Le Bourget, France after two weeks of intense negotiations, with negotiators agreeing on […]

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Filed Under: Climate Change, Energy and Climate Investment, Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Tagged With: Clean Energy Financing, Climate Change, Climate Finance, Innovation, Paris Agreement, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Investing

September 22, 2015

Two Very Different Perspectives on Carbon Emissions Trading

By Jeongseok Seo In an effort to address climate change, carbon emissions trading schemes (hereafter, ETS) have been widely championed as an instrument for mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Currently there are about 40 countries where a regional or national scheme is in operation, including 31 countries in Europe. Several states in the United States, the […]

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Filed Under: Carbon Markets, Energy and Climate Investment Tagged With: Carbon Markets, Clean Energy Financing, Climate Finance, Decarbonization

April 4, 2015

Mobilizing Public and Private Capital for Clean Energy Financing

By Joseph Nyangon Innovative financing, increased capital investment and technological improvement are catalyzing renewable energy growth. The energy market in the United States is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by technological advancement, market dynamics, and better policies and laws—none of which was a decade ago. Venture capitalists made huge profits from the computing boom of the 1980s, […]

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Filed Under: Energy and Climate Investment, Energy Economics, Energy Markets, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Tagged With: Clean Energy Financing, Climate Finance, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Solar City, Sustainable Investing

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