Despite welcome rhetoric from world leaders pledging to deliver a ‘green recovery’ from the Covid-19 crisis, fossil fuels remain well placed to benefit from a post-pandemic surge in global energy demand and the lion’s share of recovery funding is still not being directed towards green industries.
Those are the stark findings of two separate report published today, which – less than 100 days ahead of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow – together provide a stark assessment of the potentially carbon intensive nature of the global economic recovery.
According to a new analysis from research firm Vivid Economics and …
