Energy Markets
For decades, business growth came from securing funding, attracting skilled workers, and finding customers. A new constraint is now quietly joining that list and, unlike the others, we cannot negotiate it, disrupt it, or hire our way around it.
Energy Markets
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of everyday life, with businesses across industries exploring its potential to improve performance. However, its rapid adoption is also emerging as a major driver of rising electricity demand.
Energy Markets
Our electricity bills are not determined at the point of generation, but by the cost of moving, balancing, and stabilizing electricity across the grid. As the system becomes more complex, the cost of the grid itself is becoming one of the most important drivers of future electricity prices.
Sustainability Consultant
Every time fossil fuels are burned, an indirect cost is created that eventually appears in higher energy bills, insurance, food prices, and the deterioration of infrastructure.
Sustainability Consultant
According to the Investment Intentions Survey in Jan 2026, 38% of investors plan to increase real estate investment over the next two years. However, ShelterBox warns that rising extreme weather could lead to the loss of 8.35 million homes annually until 2040.
Renewable Energy Investment
Over the past few decades, the transition to a greener economy has created many new job opportunities. Still, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) gains momentum and offers immense potential, there is a growing concern that it may lead to unpredictable job losses.
Climate Risk & Economics
War rarely stays confined to the battlefield. When conflict erupts in one of the world’s most strategically important energy regions, the consequences have a domino effect across financial markets, government budgets, and global priorities.
Climate & energy insights covering renewable energy, climate risk, and sustainability economics for business leaders
For more than a decade, natural gas has been promoted as a “bridge fuel” in the energy transition. But the choice comes with both an economic and environmental compromise.
Household bills are rising everywhere. While inflation and geopolitics often take the blame, extreme weather, supply disruptions, and energy market shifts are increasingly shaping the price of everyday essentials.
As we search for cleaner energy sources, natural gas has emerged as an alternative solution to fossil fuels. It is believed to produce about 50-60% less CO2 than coal.
Many sustainable businesses are now monitoring direct emissions from their facilities. Yet, this only captures a small portion of the overall emissions. The huge lump comes from the sources of power, which contain a substantial amount of fossil fuels.
Wind and solar farms are expected to play a crucial role in tripling renewable energy capacity on a global scale by 2030. However, many countries are facing difficulty transitioning to clean energy at present, let alone meeting the net zero target.
The UEFA Euro 2024 football tournament has been the talk of the town. A big tournament like this has an extra responsibility to showcase its commitment to green initiatives, but will the competition live up to its promise?
During COP28, countries agreed to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030. As these goals transform into more concrete plans, investments in renewable energy are anticipated to rise substantially, providing an opportunity for companies to hire for major renewable energy jobs.
Europe still hasn’t fully recovered from the horror of the floods that claimed more than 200 lives across Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands in 2021. Again, in the last few weeks, floods have hit parts of Germany and Italy, but the effects of El Niño may not be the only culprit.
As the global economy continues to expand, there's a growing demand for an increased reliance on renewable sources. However, hot summers make popular renewables such as wind energy less efficient, which is a huge disadvantage.
In 2022, the supply chain disruptions caused by Ukraine’s invasion increased coal production around the world by 8.2%. Over 70% of the coal mining happened in Asia, with China and India leading the production.
In 2022, Germany announced a series of initiatives to transform the focus of the energy landscape into renewable energy. Their highly ambitious goals included achieving an 80% share of renewable sources in electricity generation by 2030 and 100% by 2035.
The digitalization of modern life and innovative technologies has completely transformed the way people shop. However, this significant increase in e-commerce logistics also comes with some hidden environmental costs.