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Mapping India's Energy Policy 2022

Looking at how the Government of India has supported different types of energy from FY 2014 to FY 2021, this report aims to improve transparency, create accountability, and encourage a responsible shift in support away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy.
Report May 31, 2022

Industrial Electrification

The Canadian industrial sector uses electricity to power more than 25% of its energy needs. It must ramp this up to 41% by 2050 while simultaneously reducing its total energy consumption.
Brief May 31, 2022

Scaling Up Clean Electricity

We need to leverage Canada's clean and renewable resources and expertise to deploy significant power generation capacity over the coming decades. After many years of next to no growth in demand, the electricity sector now needs to accommodate at least a doubling of current electricity consumption by 2050.
Brief May 31, 2022

Study warns nearly half of fossil fuel sites need to be shut down to avoid climate disaster

A new study published on May 17 has revealed that nearly half of all existing fossil fuel production sites need to be closed down if global warming is to stay below the 1.5C threshold, the internationally agreed-upon target for avoiding a climate disaster. The research indicates that just halting the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure is simply not enough.
IISD in the news May 28, 2022

The evaporating case for gas

If we want a power system dominated by clean, renewable energy, we need lots of natural gas - or so we are told. This drumbeat, which has set up gas as a "critical transition fuel", has been meted out by government ministers, the oil and gas lobby, some serious researchers and everyone of varying degrees of cynicism in between.
IISD in the news May 28, 2022

Why hydrogen is not the answer to petrostates' woes

As the world's energy systems transition from those largely fuelled by hydrocarbons to those largely powered by renewables, there will be a profound shift in where our energy comes from.
IISD in the news May 27, 2022

Ottawa Playbook | Pardon my French

Conservative leadership contenders throw down en français. The U.S. shares its China strategy. Our colleagues in Davos debate: Is globalization over? Plus, national defense wants to hire a company of professional actors.
IISD in the news May 26, 2022