Indonesia is accelerating plans to convert its mounting waste problem into a new source of electricity, with the country’s sovereign wealth fund selecting Chinese companies to help roll out the first phase of a national waste-to-energy program. The initiative highlights Jakarta’s growing ambition to tackle urban pollution while expanding alternative
The escalating Iran war has jolted global energy markets, pushing oil prices above $100 per barrel and sending governments scrambling to contain the economic fallout. What began as a regional military confrontation is rapidly evolving into a defining energy crisis with implications for inflation, global growth, and the pace of
Move signals continued shift by the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund toward large-scale clean energy infrastructure while global energy markets undergo a major transition. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is deepening its presence in global energy markets, making its first major direct investment in North American renewable infrastructure while traditional oil
Infrastructure ownership rarely changes through dramatic announcements. More often, it shifts quietly as operating assets migrate from developer balance sheets into the portfolios of long-duration capital. That transition is now visible across a portfolio of wind and solar projects spanning U.S. electricity markets. British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, Norges Bank
Brazil expects to mobilize more than 250 billion reais, roughly $48 billion, in sustainable investment during President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s current four-year term, according to former international affairs secretary Tatiana Rosito. The target reflects an effort to convert Brazil’s recent climate diplomacy into measurable capital flows tied to
Transparency under the Paris Agreement has largely unfolded through dispersed national submissions followed by remote technical scrutiny. In Kigali this May, that architecture consolidates. Rwanda will host the first centralized group review of Biennial Transparency Reports for African Least Developed Countries (LDCs), bringing together technical expert review teams and reporting
Climate diplomacy rarely begins where climate impacts are most acute. In the lead-up to COP31, it will. Fiji will host the official pre-COP31 meeting in October 2026, while Tuvalu will convene a special leaders’ component under an agreement reached between Australia and Turkey. The Pacific Islands Forum confirmed the arrangement
Peripheral territories are often treated as policy afterthoughts. In Scotland’s new National Islands Plan, they become the proving ground. The document reframes climate action across island communities not as environmental obligation alone, but as a demographic and infrastructure strategy tied to population retention, grid reform, and local wealth generation. The
In Washington, climate capital now waits on a jurisdictional question. More than a year after the Environmental Protection Agency moved to freeze roughly $20 billion in clean energy grants awarded under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, the legal fight has returned to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District
In Havana, adaptation now sits on rooftops. Extended blackouts are reshaping daily life across Cuba as fuel shortages constrain electricity generation and expose the fragility of an import-dependent grid. In response, households, small businesses and informal transport operators are installing solar panels at a pace that signals less an energy
