Climate Finance

With the United States energy transition and clean finance communities flexing their political muscle, and anti-renewables incumbents paying the price in their Congressional primaries, a new report says the high energy bills brought on by Donald Trump’s “energy and AI dominance agenda” may be toxic for Republicans when American voters...

Canada’s biggest oil companies are cashing in on Donald Trump’s war on Iran, with the four biggest oil sands producers reporting a staggering $13.3 billion in profits in the three months ending June 30. And economist Jim Stanford says Canadian households and businesses are paying the price.

A divided federal appeals court says the Trump administration improperly terminated billions of dollars in funds to boost clean energy projects, handing a win to a coalition of nonprofits picked to run the Biden-era effort.

Canada’s sustainable finance sector is at loggerheads over the inclusion of oil and gas in the new net-zero investment framework.

A Montreal start-up says it is close to scaling up a cleaner, cheaper, more efficient process for delivering highly-purified graphite for electric vehicle batteries, drones, and other applications.

The federal government should provide what amounts to bridge financing to help provinces rapidly build out the country’s electricity systems, without today’s ratepayers seeing higher costs to underwrite a project with longer-range benefits, the Canadian Climate Institute concludes in a policy brief co-authored with energy transition analyst and BloombergNEF founder...

Solar installations across Africa hit a record last year, but international lenders are charging African countries far more for capital than borrowers elsewhere—a gap that could stifle the continent's clean energy growth.

Supply concentration, especially in refining, as well as proliferating export controls, declining investment, and supply chain and work force bottlenecks are putting critical mineral security at risk for most countries, the International Energy Agency warns in its latest annual Global Critical Minerals Outlook.

New AI-driven forecasts can tell you when dangerous weather is coming, Prof. Catherine Nakalembe writes for Yale Climate Connections. However, the barrier to saving lives is rarely data accuracy, but the absence of the policy infrastructure required to act on it.

A bill aimed at increasing the number of wood pellet mills in Louisiana sailed through the state’s legislature last month—despite some lawmakers, including the bill’s sponsor, acknowledging they know little about the controversial industry.