A New IMF Facility to Support the Green Transition? | Center For Global Development

Climate change poses extraordinary threats to macroeconomic stability and global prosperity, and since the IMF’s purpose is to foster both objectives, its help in addressing these threats is central to its mandate. Central banks will face difficult policy choices on the extent to which monetary policy should become an instrument for accelerating the transition to […]

Norwegian Green Ammonia Plant Will Contribute to Decarbonizing Arctic

Following the news that the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee approved a ban on the transportation and use of heavy fuel oil in Arctic waters, joint venture partners Aker Clean Hydrogen and Varanger Kraft announced that they are exploring doubling the production capacities for their planned green ammonia and hydrogen production project. The planned plant […]

Port of Rotterdam Sees Potential to Import Green Hydrogen from Iceland

Iceland’s national electrical utility, Landsvirkjun, has partnered with the Port of Rotterdam to study the manufacture and export of green hydrogen from the energy-rich island nation to customers in Northern Europe. The two companies mapped the components of the chain from renewable power generation and hydrogen production in Iceland and then shipping to the port […]

From European Green Cities to the proposed Carbon Zero Digital Platform

And as a follow up on this a new European Ecobuilding initiative was realised also involving Solarplan in 1996 by joining 9 European cities into the European Green Cities cooperation, which realised local solar low energy demonstration projects until year 2000. In Denmark it was the city of Copenhagen that was the partner city working […]