Clean Energy Finance Forum

Our partners at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University turn up more evidence that American voters demand forward motion on carbon reduction. Their new voter survey finds two-thirds of respondents convinced that legislators should prioritize investment in fossil-free energy.

Residents in Springfield, Massachusetts question the "green" light for a biomass facility in an area where many live with asthma.

Surveying China's plan to send carbon emissions way down, the IEA forecasts broader uptake of carbon capture, hydrogen and other decarbonization tools on the strength of China's manufacturing.

"States can now accelerate deeper progress toward what we really want: a 100 percent clean electricity grid that is also affordable and reliable. Unfortunately, by failing to allow all carbon-free technologies to compete equally, leading states are on the brink of adopting policies that miss the opportunity to achieve all three objectives simultaneously."

"Policies to foster competition in energy are important especially in states like Michigan with regulated electricity markets. In Michigan, regulated investor-owned utilities are the only providers of electricity in the service territories in which they operate."

As Germany shuttered another of its nuclear power plants on New Year’s Day, the office of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was said to be considering a proposal which would make coal more competitive with renewables in one of the world’s worst polluting nations.

The Rwanda Catalytic Green investment bank will boost the financing of climate projects that the country undertakes.