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Sustainable Transport Policy for Armenia: A Roadmap Policy recommendations and milestones
…innovation and strengthening financial mechanisms for sustainable transport.Complementary Measures: These are additional initiatives that enhance and refine the transition process. They may not be essential on their own, but they increase efficiency and enhance the impact of the other measures.This categorisation ensures a balanced and strategic approach, allowing decision makers to prioritise key investments. Despite significant geopolitical challenges and resource constraints, Armenia continues to press forward in the transition to sustainable transport. This structured roadmap can help guide government efforts to improve regional connectivity, spur economic development and strengthen energy security in Armenia, while significantly reducing CO2 emissions.
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Czechia 2025 Executive summary
…plans and guiding documents, including the State Energy Policy (2015) and the Climate Protection Policy (2017), need to be updated or more clearly defined, with a particular focus on the long-term pathway for renewables and the role of natural gas in the energy transition. Czechia has set laudable goals and updating its strategic framework, filling implementation gaps, strengthening capacity and fostering societal support will help to achieve them.Significant steps are being taken to improve energy security and reduce reliance on Russian imports. To address short-term energy security concerns related to the coal phase-out, legislation now allows…
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Renewables 2022 Transport biofuels
…Finland high fuel prices prompted the government to temporarily lower its renewable distribution obligation for 2022/23. Sweden froze 2023 greenhouse gas targets for transport fuels at 2022 levels. However, 2030 targets remain unchanged. Robust growth over the next five years will help meet climate and energy security goals Total global biofuel demand expands by 35 000 MLPY or 20% over 2022-2027 in the main-case forecast. Growth in renewable diesel and biojet fuel consumption is almost entirely in advanced economies. Here, policies designed to reduce GHG emissions are driving demand because these fuels can be produced with low…
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Sheltering From Oil Shocks Summary
…on 11 March by making 400 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves available to the market, the largest stock release in IEA history. But the demand side is also a crucial part of the energy security equation.In this report, the IEA details 10 demand-side options open to households, businesses and governments to shelter themselves from today’s oil shock and relieve the strains on affordability. These are based on the IEA’s longstanding expertise on energy security and on specific country examples. Governments can take the lead, both by setting an example and by facilitating these actions…
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Global Energy Review 2026 Coal
…use in energy-intensive industry in China also declined as steel and cement output shrank by 4% and 7%, respectively. However, these declines were largely offset by an increase in demand for coal for the production of plastics and the chemical sector.In parallel, the commissioning of coal power plants in China accelerated significantly in 2025, reaching almost 80 gigawatts (GW). This was the result of an elevated number of approvals between 2022 and 2024 following power shortages in 2021. The construction of new plants is primarily intended to meet peak electricity demand and support China’s energy security goals…
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Global Hydrogen Review 2026 Key questions about hydrogen
…long-term contracts, and help to diversify energy sources and trading partners. Hydrogen can also improve the resilience of the system by providing additional assets that could be used to satisfy energy demand during supply disruptions.Hydrogen can be used in multiple applications, which allows governments to adapt its use to their national contexts. In addition, the multiple conversion steps in the hydrogen supply chain mean there is additional flexibility in the degree of domestic production for each of these steps. Nevertheless, the use of hydrogen to enhance energy security also introduces a trade-off with cost, since low-emissions…
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Unlocking Ukraine’s Hydrogen Opportunity: A Roadmap Unlocking the opportunity - A roadmap for action
…will be key. Introduction Hydrogen and its derivatives could offer a valuable opportunity for Ukraine in the long term. Taking advantage of this opportunity will require action outside and within the energy sector to improve the business case for hydrogen projects. Looking at the economy, improving revenues and public finance and debt management will be crucial to balance the public budget and enable the necessary investments in reconstruction. From the perspective of restoring energy supply, the power sector must be a key priority in order to ensure energy security and capacity adequacy. From the lens of decarbonisation, hydrogen has a…
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Gas Market Report, Q2-2025 Executive summary
…update. In contrast with previous years, this relatively strong growth was largely driven by Europe and North America. In Europe, gas consumption increased by nearly 10% y-o-y as lower renewable electricity output supported higher gas burn in the power sector. Periods of low wind power generation highlighted the key role gas-fired power plants can play in ensuring electricity supply security in energy markets increasingly dominated by variable renewables. In North America, a colder winter pushed natural gas consumption to an all-time high, with demand growth largely supported by stronger gas use in buildings. In contrast, gas…
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Global Hydrogen Review 2025 Five key questions about hydrogen
…particularly in steel, shipping, and aviation applications.While challenges remain – including high production costs, demand and regulatory uncertainty, and infrastructure gaps – the positive developments significantly outweigh the setbacks. This is an encouraging sign for a sector that can play an important role in meeting government commitments to address climate change and strengthen energy security, at a moment when geopolitical tensions are rising. How can low-emissions hydrogen demand take off? While investment in low-emissions hydrogen production is gaining momentum, uncertain demand continues to pose a critical challenge to the industry's viability. Cumulative firm offtake agreements account for less…
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Scaling Up Transition Finance Financial institutions and transition finance
…enabling mechanisms that support credible action even without full planning capacity.The role of transition finance could be reaffirmed to enable progress where decarbonisation is most difficult and urgent, engaging with real-world constraints rather than avoiding them. This implies the possibility of moving away from viewing transition finance as a “second tier” of green finance and positioning it as an equal “second pillar” of global financing for emissions reductions. Public and private actors could design supportive frameworks to scale transition investments, including the safeguards that can ensure that they make a lasting contribution to strengthen energy security and deliv...
