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Banking, finance and investment

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28/2/2024 Comment / Beverley Gower-Jones

Investing in the future

Net zero should be seen as a field of economic opportunity – so the UK needs to do more, and quickly, to realise the benefits that net zero offers: emission reductions, new jobs and healthier lives. Finance and long-term investment are crucial, with a particular need to increase institutional funding to early-stage climate-tech companies, argues Beverley Gower-Jones OBE FEI, founder and Managing Partner of Clean Growth Fund.

Banking, finance and investment

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27/11/2024 Comment / Michiel de Haan

Putting financial muscle behind renewable energy’s push into 2030

Renewable energy is competitive, but 2030 targets are challenging. Coordinated action, including continuing political support, will be essential if these are to be met, writes Michiel de Haan, Global Head of Energy Sector at Netherlands-based ING bank, which aims to play its part in accelerating the energy transition through financing.

Banking, finance and investment

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20/4/2026 Feature / Kristy Jooste

Debt and equity bankability for renewable energy project financing

The Energy Industries Council’s March 2026 Bankable Energies conference gathered financiers and borrowers to map out how to bridge the gap between net zero targets and the capital deployment required to reach them. With global investment in the energy transition hitting a record $2.3tn in 2025, the day’s conversation focused on risk mitigation and structured finance. Kristy Jooste AMEI, Senior Content Officer, Energy Institute, was there.

Banking, finance and investment

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28/1/2026 Feature / Betty Wang

After Belém: China’s evolving role in global clean energy finance

Once best known for large-scale, state-backed infrastructure loans, Beijing’s overseas energy engagement has been shifting: policy bank lending has slowed, while commercial investment and China’s integration of its clean-energy industries into overseas markets have accelerated, writes Betty Wang, Senior Program Officer of Climate at the Asia Society Policy Institute.

COP

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12/11/2025 Feature / Brian Davis

COP30: Big stage, low expectations

Ten years since signing the Paris Agreement, there are lower expectations for any groundbreaking COP30 initiatives, as high-power discussions start this week at Belém, Brazil. New Energy World Features Editor Brian Davis reports.

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11/12/2024 Feature / Will Dalrymple

Goal setting: Inside the COP29 NCQG

At November 2024’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, countries agreed a new climate finance goal of $1.3tn/y by 2035, including $300bn/y of public finance. Together, these make up the so-called New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG). But what do these numbers mean, where do they come from, and who will have the power to make the money choices? Experts at the Grantham Institute held a webinar late last year to discuss the outcomes of the so-called ‘financial COP’, with an eye toward COP30 in November 2025 in Belem, Brazil. New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple listened in.

Energy transition

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10/7/2024 Feature / Ban Ki-moon,Mary Robinson

Fixing climate change: the world leaders’ perspective

Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and former Ireland President Mary Robinson discussed climate change and related issues in a Chatham House panel discussion on 3 May. Both are now part of global advisory group The Elders, working as, respectively, Deputy Chairman and Chairman. Below is an edited and abridged account of the session, introduced and moderated by Bernice Lee, Chatham House Research Director – Futures.

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