Mark Nicholls

EU carbon prices hit more than €90 a tonne in 2021. Analysts are divided over whether calmer waters await – or yet higher prices are to come.

Agreement on Article 6 at COP 26 sets the stage for a global carbon market - although key questions remained unanswered.

High energy prices have reignited the debate in the UK on green and social levies. As energy transition costs rise, a new approach is needed.

Most companies’ climate impact lies in their supply chains, but tackling upstream emissions poses problems of calculation and influence.

Europe’s energy and climate policy is wracked by crisis but a carbon price collapse looks unlikely, say market watchers.

EU member states have agreed to move the bloc’s carbon border tax forward, but crucial elements remain unresolved.

To show corporate leadership, cheap carbon offsets and climate neutrality claims won’t do, say campaigners.

Dramatic growth in battery storage will be fundamental to the clean energy transition. Rising prices risk crimping that growth.

With the Paris Agreement rules in place, the UN climate talks are switching focus from process to implementation. But geopolitics and disputes over finance cast a pall.

An EU renovation loan could tap into trillions of euros of homeowner equity for building renovations – if the EU can be persuaded to join in.