Occorre aumentare gli investimenti per la transizione verso energie green. Gli alti prezzi delle fonti fossili dimostrano che non c'è tempo da perdere.
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For more than a decade, governments and businesses progressively issued conventional green and sustainable fixed income securities to address social and environmental issues. According to the Climate Bond Initiative, their issuance is on track to reach $1 trillion in issuance by 2023. However, there is growing scepticism regarding the market's integrity. Is it making a meaningful contribution to reducing sustainability and climate risks? Unfortunately, green labels do not seem to be an effective signal for identifying sustainable improvers.
While the outcomes and legacy of COP26 are still up to debate, the lead up to the climate summit—co-hosted by the UK and Italy—marked an unmistakeable shift in global climate ambitions. Numerous countries pledged long-term targets to reach net zero emissions and put forth a patchwork of near-term commitments to get emissions on the right track.
Contemporary energy dynamics suggest we are heading towards years of likely price volatility, with a strong necessity for governmental support schemes to channel the investments required to achieve the green transition. The final destination of this journey, as well as the travelling speed, will ultimately depend on available resources, technology, and consensus. This consensus, in turn, relies on the capability to distribute in a non-regressive way the costs of the transition.
The severe power outages that plagued China since September 2021 have highlighted the clash between efforts to limit environmental degradation and short-term economic realities. Lower supplies of coal—due to tighter environmental and safety inspections—combined with soaring power demand on the back of an infrastructure-heavy economic recovery, led to severe power cuts in over 20 Chinese provinces. The power rationing has weighed on the country’s economic growth and impacted global supply chains.
The pandemic has exposed and accelerated inequalities. Addressing the social gap must be part of the post-pandemic recovery.
Ten years of democratic transition left a majority of Tunisians unhappy about their country’s fate. Over the decade, growing anger occasionally spilled over onto the streets, but politicians always contained it through consensual deals and short-term remedies. A number of political and economic reforms came as top-down policies, often perceived as neo-imperialist measures imposed by the West.
La strada vero la neutralità climatica è ancora lunga. E passa inevitabilmente attraverso l'uso dei fossili nel breve periodo.
Catapulted to the front row in the urge to heighten climate action ambition, the otherwise obscure and academic notion of border carbon adjustment (BCA) came of age in 2021.[1] After months of careful study and much anticipation among the policy literati, the European Commission (EC) unveiled by mid-year a proposal to establish a first iteration of what it has called a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an underbelly around the lack of preparedness to disasters, pandemics, or climate change globally, and Africa is no exception to this. As everybody journeys towards COP-26, there are both the acknowledgment and realization that we need to look at adaptation and mitigation as two sides of the same coin in order to amplify the level of preparedness and action needed to tackle the impacts of climate change.