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Breakthrough Agenda Report 2026 Buildings
Buildings
- Executive summary
- Hydrogen
- Road transport
- Steel
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Pledges to Progress 2025 Pledges to Progress Company Assessment
The assessment shown below sets out actions reported by 116 oil and gas companies to achieve the goals set out in the Oil and Gas Decarbonisation Charter, agreed at COP28. It is a baseline assessment, in that the evaluations for each metric are based on public company reporting published in 2024, which often rely on data and progress from 2023, i.e. before the OGDC was launched.This is not an assessment of environmental performance. It tracks 25 specific aspects of target-setting, implementation strategies and disclosure, based on a framework put together by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the…
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Universal Access to Clean Cooking in Africa Implications and policy considerations
A new recipe for success? Progress on clean cooking requires efforts from a wide range of stakeholders. These include efforts to enhance countries’ policy frameworks, address consumer affordability and other barriers to adoption, cultivate a skilled workforce and mobilise additional financing to the sector – themes discussed in this chapter.Access to low-cost debt will be key for companies to grow their customer base quickly. In the ACCESS, the share of debt financing in the sector increases from 35% today to over 50%. This depends on more financiers being able to assess and appropriately price risk clean cooking companies and…
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Paulina Hennig-Kloska
Ministry of Climate and Environment.
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Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025 Demand: Global electricity use to grow strongly in 2025 and 2026
Global electricity demand is forecast to increase by an average annual 3.3% in 2025 and by 3.7% in 2026, a moderation from 4.4% in 2024 but still some of the highest growth rates observed over the last decade. This is a slight downward revision from our previous forecast in February 2025 of 4% growth for this year and 3.8% in 2026. The change is partly due to the IMF's downgrade of the global GDP growth outlook compared with its January 2025 update amid elevated uncertainty surrounding trade tariffs and economic prospects. Despite these downside risks…
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Global EV Outlook 2026 Cutting through the noise
Cutting through the noise
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Cost of living package for New Zealand households
…to give Kiwi families immediate relief through the global energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine, the New Zealand Government will cut NZD 0.25 per litre of fuel for until January 2023. The public transport fares will also be cut in half to provide cheaper transport options over the same period. Moreover, the government will provide $116 per month from August to October (3 months) to 2.1 million households. This cost-of-living support serves to mitigate the impact of global inflation from the war in Ukraine on top of global supply chain disruptions and the pandemic.
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RePowerEU Plan
The REPowerEU Plan was elaborated by the European Commission at EU leaders' request, in response to the energy market disruption and supply disruptions brought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Plan notably aims at rapidly reducing the EU's dependence on Russian fossil fuels by accelerating Member States clean energy transition. It outlines a series of measures to save energy, diversify supplies, accelerate the rollout of renewables, reduce fossil fuel consumption in industry and transport, and induce "smart investments". It also includes policy options to limit electricity and gas price surges, and regulate gas storage filling. It states that…
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Law on Minimum Stocks of Oil and Petroleum Products
The Law on Minimum Stocks of Oil and Petroleum Products implements the European Union’s Directive 2009/119/EC and lays out a specific legal framework concerning the protection of Ukraine's energy supply by stockholding oil and other petroleum products. The volume of minimum reserves of oil and petroleum products is maintained by operators and market entities assigned by the government authority.
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Law n°21 on ozone-depleting substances and fluorinated greenhouse gases
This law aims at setting regulations and norms over the production, import, export, storage and use of ozone depleting substances in Ukraine, complying with its ratification the Montreal Protocol.