With COP28 underway in the United Arab Emirates, universities and funders face a dilemma over whether and how to investigate stratospheric aerosol injection, a potential last-ditch resort for climate change

EU blocks effort to remove perverse incentives that are both encouraging deforestation and increasing CO2 emissions

Delays in European legislation relating to green hydrogen have led energy companies to hold back research projects here and look to the US, where the Inflation Reduction Act is providing massive incentives

Without end users for clean hydrogen, Europe risks squandering its innovation advantage, according to a new analysis of patents. Unless technologies to switch from fossil fuel-based hydrogen are widely accessible the market won’t take off

Financing is part of a financing portfolio worth over €15B to encourage companies to invest in climate change-related technologies and end Europe’s dependence on imports of fossil fuel from Russia

Setting a separate target for deployment of novel renewable technologies could open up markets for start-ups, but there are also other barriers that need to be lifted

Upcoming changes to the EU Renewable Energy directive will set new production targets. But with a few additional adjustments, the directive could also drive the development of completely new forms of renewable energy

Leading climate economist warns that two big-money Chinese investment programmes could tip planet into catastrophic global warming

Lack of high quality investment projects could impede drive towards carbon neutrality, while coal-dependent countries are ‘in denial’ over scale of transition, and the commission is accused of ‘creative accounting’ in drawing up the budget