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China's infrastructure investments contain green and gray

More than a trillion dollars' worth of green bonds have found buyers around the world, but standards for defining what makes a bond green remain watery. How fast and how far can this technique extend before standards make it more reliably predictive of carbon savings- or before an investor loses...

The United States, under its Paris Agreement commitments, must become carbon-free by 2050. Its Congress appears nowhere close to passing laws that would spark an energy transition, though. So the government's executive branch should craft a green industrial policy that mixes incentives, procurement, tax credits and other tools to bring...

Indonesia's far-flung communities need power for a host of purposes, including rice production — Sumba Sustainable Solutions, a member company in the New Energy Nexus, produces solar-powered rice mills.

Though renewable energy startups have begun to find their way in Indonesia, they are not yet widely known. However, with support from stakeholders and with efforts from those stakeholders to improve regulatory clarity, startups can gain traction. One international team has set out to offer advice, advocacy, and capital to...

Solar panels being installed — This professional had to climb to get to this spot: community solar investors and innovators have to climb over hurdles, too.

For those coming with fresh eyes to this series, please read the previous two articles about community solar. In the first article of the series, I explored the economic and energy equity opportunity of the community solar sector. The subsequent article investigated challenges within the market from a policy and...

Climate attitudes in Colorado, courtesy the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication — With the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications showing this range of climate concern, should Colorado operate under one electricity provider?

Participants in CBEY's Financing and Deploying Clean Energy certificate program learn technology, finance, policy and climate science. Policy savvy locks in when they write real memos to real players. In this example, a professional in Colorado's community-solar industry encourages a state Senator to work on fostering competition in the state's...

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