Can transition finance get us to a greener future?

Helping investors navigate the complexities behind decarbonising hard-to-abate industries will be essential, given the need to attract more capital.
Helping investors navigate the complexities behind decarbonising hard-to-abate industries will be essential, given the need to attract more capital.
As the world races to meet net-zero targets, emissions from all industrial sectors must be reduced more urgently than ever. Agriculture is an important area of focus as it contributes up to 22% of global greenhouse gas emissions – almost as much as the energy sector.
The transport sector is a crucial yet challenging area to decarbonise, given its heavy reliance on fossil fuel usage, carbon-intensive infrastructure and car-centric lifestyles. It remains the largest contributor to local air pollution in cities yet has the potential to improve people’s phy...
The agency added that large global conflicts highlighted the need for investment to speed up the transition to cleaner energy.
Overcoming the barrier of heavy diesel backup generators in data centres will be crucial to reaching net zero targets for operators. Is green hydrogen the answer?
The ESA has been developing satellite technology to convert the Sun’s energy in space and transmit it back to the Earth.
Britain ended more than 140 years of coal power when it closed its last generator in September.
The transition to a greener society will involve huge investments in wind farms, electric cars and trains, new ways to heat homes, and much more. Yet the UK government is sending mixed messages over whether it intends to finance such projects at anything like the rate required.
In this commentary for the Miami Herald, Doyne Farmer, Baillie Gifford Professor of Complex Systems Science at the Oxford Martin School, writes about the rapid cost reductions of solar and wind technologies, and reminds the reader that we are ‘improving and adopting technologies that can we...