An energy transition that fails to engage with fossil fuel-producing countries and their needs could have profound implications for regional and international security and the stability of global energy markets. If oil revenues start to decline before producer countries have successfully diversified their economies, livelihoods will be lost and poverty rates will increase. In a region with one of the youngest and fastest-growing populations in the world, economic hardship and increasing unemployment risk creating broader unrest and instability.

With its current pace, Europe will only reach its 2030 target to reduce 55% GHG emissions by 2051. Closer cooperation between member states on energy transition, adopting a regional approach to boost market integration is needed to speed up the process.

Join IISD, IEA, and the Government of Denmark for a webinar on Tuesday looking at how fossil fuel subsidy reform can support people-centred clean energy transitions! Experts will give practical examples of how to conduct FFSR in a way that supports people by taking into account issues such as gender, health, local community considerations, and broader social impacts.

As the world gets warmer the more we need cooling systems - it's a vicious cycle of climate change.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates in a 2018 report that global demand for space cooling will more than triple by 2050. The growing cooling demand is “one of the most critical energy issues of our time”.

Is there a way to make air conditioning less of an environmental issue?

Together with Partners, EIT Climate-KIC is leading a process aimed at supporting stakeholders in three European lignite regions transition from high economic dependence on lignite to a low-carbon future. Lignite is considered the lowest rank of coal, or ‘brown coal’. It is one of the most polluting forms of coal because its lower density means more needs to be burned to produce a unit of power.

New listings of fossil fuel companies would be immediately banned on the London Stock Exchange as part of a proposal by the Liberal Democrats that the party says could help the UK become a leader in tackling the climate emergency.

Under the plan outlined to the Guardian by the Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, another immediate policy would be to stop new bonds being issued in London to finance oil, coal or gas exploration.

Fossil fuel firms already listed in the UK would then have two years to produce a coherent plan about how they would reach net zero emissions by 2045, or risk being struck off the LSE.

China's provinces are still planning to launch more than 100 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power capacity despite a decline in new approvals in the first half of 2021, environmental group Greenpeace said on Wednesday.

A modern, clean electricity grid is foundational to ensuring the United States is resilient in the face of a changing climate and can achieve a net-zero energy future by 2050. The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684) represents a historic investment of about $550 billion in new spending over five years on the nation’s infrastructure, including in the energy grid.

US local governments bought more renewable energy in 2020 than ever before, according to new data from the Local Government Renewables Action Tracker. Nearly 100 cities and counties across 33 states completed 143 deals, adding 3,683 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy capacity. This is a 23 percent increase from 2019 and represents enough energy to power 811,000 households annually. Here's how it happened.