Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
Fossil Fuels
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Role of gas in cooking and mobility in the transition to cleaner energy
India’s strategy to cover unmet energy requirements by creating dual connections of gas and electricity requires a balancing act to ward off environmental and capital loss, according to a new report by
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Curtailing methane emissions from fossil fuel operations: pathways to a 75% cut by 2030
Tackling methane emissions from fossil fuel operations represents one of the best near-term opportunities for limiting the worse effects of climate change because of its short-lived nature in the atmosphere
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The role of low-carbon fuels in the clean energy transitions of the power sector
Governments around the world are faced with the challenge of ensuring electricity security and meeting growing electricity uses while simultaneously cutting emissions. The significant increase in renewables
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An energy sector roadmap to carbon neutrality in China
This report, An Energy Sector Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality in China, responds to the Chinese government’s invitation to the IEA to co-operate on long-term strategies by setting out pathways for reaching
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Still not getting energy prices right: a global and country update of fossil fuel subsidies
This paper provides a comprehensive global, regional, and country-level update of: (i) efficient fossil fuel prices to reflect supply and environmental costs; and (ii) subsidies implied by charging below
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Hot spots for renewable heat: decarbonizing low- to medium-temperature industrial heat across the G-20
Demand for industrial products has risen considerably in the past two decades, along with energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Process heat in industry accounts for 29% of global final energy demand,
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The state of global air quality funding 2021
Even as air pollution shaves years off life expectancy, fossil fuel projects get more funding than clean air initiatives, a global report said. An annual survey by the Clean Air Fund, which looks into
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Demanding power: do protests empower citizens to hold governments accountable over energy?
Energy protests are becoming increasingly common and significant around the world. While in the global North concerns tend to centre around climate issues, in the global South the concerns are more often
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Negotiating climate change in crisis
Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, carbon emissions are still rising dramatically. This edited volume, comprising
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Counting carbon or counting coal? Anchoring climate governance in fossil fuel-based accountability frameworks
For decades, the object of international climate governance has been greenhouse gases, standardised to tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent. The ongoing inadequacy of decarbonisation efforts based on this