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COP31 and the $300 Billion Question: Why Climate Finance Pledges Don't Become Projects
Short answer: the money promised at UN climate talks only reaches the ground when there are projects ready to receive it. The world has agreed to mobilise at least $300 billion a year for developing countries by 2035, and to aim for $1.3 trillion from all sources. But most
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Can the Green Transition Make Countries Safer? What Hormuz and Ukraine Teach Energy Investors
The 2026 Strait of Hormuz closure and Ukraine's grid war show that energy security and climate are now the same investment case. Here's what the green transition fixes, the new risks it creates, and how investors can price resilience.
Who Makes the Rules Now? Government Regulation in 2026 and What It Means for Capital
In December 2024 we argued that governments need stricter rules, consistently enforced. Two years on, the bigger question isn't how strict regulation should be. It's who gets to make it. Federal agencies are rolling rules back, courts are narrowing what agencies can do, Congress is overturning
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Can the Green Transition Make Countries Safer? What Hormuz and Ukraine Teach Energy Investors
The 2026 Strait of Hormuz closure and Ukraine's grid war show that energy security and climate are now the same investment case. Here's what the green transition fixes, the new risks it creates, and how investors can price resilience.