Has the energy crisis helped or hindered G20 climate policy progress?

Michael Holder
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Credit: European Union

New analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance finds little backsliding on climate policy across the world's biggest economies over the past year, despite on-going geopolitical and energy security challenges

After Russian tanks rolled over the Ukraine border in February last year, the geopolitics and economics of the energy industry were immediately turned on their head. Exacerbated by lingering supply chain...

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