23.03.202422.03.2024 Climate change risk to price stability: Higher average temperatures increase inflation Rising temperatures could drive food inflation up by 3.2 percentage points and overall inflation by 1.18 [...]
23.03.202422.03.2024 Danger from China: How Europe’s wind energy sector can protect itself Chinese manufacturers are flooding the global markets with cheap solar technology. Numerous European competitors are on [...]
20.03.202420.03.2024 A better handle on the emissions budget for the Paris climate targets A team of scientists from the University of Exeter, Met Office and Imperial College have found [...]
20.03.202420.03.2024 Not in my backyard? Wind turbines have little effect on US property values The value of houses in the United [...]
20.03.202419.03.2024 Actuaries call for policymakers to consider risk of climate ‘ruin’ Actuaries are calling for more realistic climate risk assessments. This includes the “risk of ruin”: the [...]
20.02.202420.02.2024 UQ start-up to help solar farms power on A tech start-up from The University of Queensland is set to make efficiencies in the renewable [...]
25.01.202425.01.2024 Global Circularity Rate Is Falling Steadily Every Year —Study Pinpoints Key Reforms to Revert This Trend Over the past five years, the number of discussions, debates and articles related to the circular [...]
15.11.202315.11.2023 Land taxation can reduce wealth inequality Taxing land instead of capital could reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in societies, [...]
07.11.202306.11.2023 Food systems account for at least 15% of all fossil fuels burned globally, new research shows; urgent transformation needed Oil companies are manoeuvring to lock in food’s dependence on fossil fuel-based pesticides, fertilizers, and plastic [...]
24.10.202323.10.2023 Development aid to reduce migration: costly and partly ineffective Development aid is largely ineffective in reducing irregular migration. A new comprehensive study led by the [...]
23.10.202323.10.2023 New study proves: Recycling makes a significant contribution to sustainable business The Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT analyzed the environmental effects of recycling [...]
18.10.202318.10.2023 Lack of ambition and attention risks making electricity grids the weak link in clean energy transitions First-of-its-kind global study finds the world must add or replace 80 million km of grids by [...]
04.10.202304.10.2023 Renewables Jobs Nearly Doubled in Past Decade, Soared to 13.7 Million in 2022 Employment expands despite crises and challenges and growing use of industrial policies can create more localised [...]
23.09.202323.09.2023 Plummeting prices for solar power and storage make global climate transition cheaper than expected Almost 90 percent cost reduction within ten years. Other fossil-free solutions also much cheaper. MCC-led study [...]
14.09.202314.09.2023 UN plan promises massive emission cuts in the construction sector … the most polluting and toughest to decarbonise. Rapid urbanisation worldwide means every five days, the [...]
30.08.202330.08.2023 Climate extremes hit stressed economies even harder Economies already under stress respond more strongly to weather events like heat waves, river floods and [...]