Green Energy

China’s decision to invest in a transition to a green economy has also helped buffer it from the Iran War Fall-Out

Why Islamic Finance could provide an ethical Model for funding the green Transition

Islamic finance, with its core values of fairness and social responsibility, could enhance credibility and transparency within green finance

Climate Crisis

How China will Run Rings around Trump’s US on Lucrative Green Energy in 2026

Yale Climate Connections

China exported over $200 billion in clean energy technologies to other countries in 2025, increasing their adoption around the world

Climate Crisis

Despite Trump, Renewable Energy keeps Surging

Yale Climate Connections

Solar and wind adoption are experiencing the sharp upward trajectory that other successful new technologies, experienced

China

As Trump commits Climate Suicide with Dirty Energy, China Leads world in Renewables, EVs

Tom Engelhardt

China installed more wind turbines and solar panels than any other country, indeed more than the rest of the planet combined

Climate Crisis

Global South is now 1/3 of major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust

Juan Cole

The adoption of electric vehicles has spread to the Global South and is no longer only a Chinese, European and American phenomenon.

Climate Crisis

A Path Away from Fossil Fuels already Exists, COP30 or No

Foreign Policy in Focus

Existing plans to triple renewable energy, double efficiency, and slash methane — coupled with real regulations like the EU’s — offer a way forward. By Daphne Wysham, Trina Chiemi | November 28, 2025 ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – It appeared to be a grim déjà vu when the final gavel dropped in Belem, […]

Climate Crisis

Have we Reached Peak Fossil Fuels? Wind & Solar met all New Energy Demand in Q1-Q3 ’25

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Richard Black and other analysts at the Ember energy consultancy find that all new electricity demand in the first three quarters of 2025 was met by solar and wind, mainly solar. That statistic requires us to conclude that there was no growth in fossil fuels globally during that period. Ember […]

Donald Trump

Ozymandias on the Potomac: Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline

Alfred W. McCoy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the inevitable decline of all empires, whether in ancient Egypt or then-modern Britain. In Shelly’s stanzas, a traveler in Egypt comes across the ruins of a once-monumental statue, […]