This report reviews the main developments shaping the solar sector across the Middle East and North Africa, combining market trends, investment patterns, technology developments, energy storage progress, and country-by-country solar updates. It presents a region moving beyond early utility-scale growth toward broader adoption across rooftops, commercial and industrial systems, storage, hydrogen, desalination, and more integrated energy planning.
This report examines the role of urban green spaces in improving happiness, health, sustainability, and quality of life in Arab cities. It combines global examples, UAE policy developments, survey findings from residents, and Masdar City case studies to show that public spaces are not decorative extras but essential components of future urban development.
This report examines how digitalisation is reshaping the energy sector through smarter infrastructure, more efficient operations, sustainable mobility, and targeted clean energy investment. It highlights the role of government policy, energy company leadership, Industry 4.0 technologies, and collaborative financing models in accelerating the transition toward a more sustainable energy future.
This report examines how the 2020 US presidential election could affect domestic energy regulation, climate policy, foreign affairs, and trade. It contrasts a second Trump administration with a Democratic administration, showing how each path would create sharply different outcomes for fossil fuel development, emissions regulation, international alliances, trade agreements, and global energy markets.
The UN Conference on the Human Environment 1972 in Stockholm marked the beginning of a global awareness of the interdependence between people, other living species and our planet, as well as the establishment of the UN Environment Programme. Since then, the global movement has rippled across the planet, and the UN General Assembly designated 22 April as International Earth Day through a resolution adopted in 2009.
This report examines how Sweden can achieve its target of 100% renewable power by 2040 while maintaining reliability, affordability, and system stability. It identifies policy, regulatory, and operational challenges linked to higher shares of variable renewable energy and proposes four systemic solutions centered on ancillary services, regional market integration, distributed energy resources, and electrification of end-use sectors.
This report examines the transformation of Bangladesh’s power sector through the interconnected lenses of geopolitics, poverty reduction, and climate change. It reviews the country’s rapid electricity demand growth, governance and affordability challenges, environmental vulnerability, and financing pressures, while evaluating strategic options for a cleaner, more resilient, and more financially sustainable electricity system.
Short Summary: This report examines how artificial intelligence is becoming a foundational technology across sustainability-related sectors. It explores AI’s growing role in water management, energy forecasting and smart grids, waste sorting and collection, and the development of smarter, safer, and more efficient cities, while emphasizing both the economic and environmental value of its adoption.
This report examines how existing power system structures are misaligned with the needs of a renewable-based energy system. It analyzes wholesale pricing, electricity valuation, retail tariffs, and distributed energy integration, and proposes structural changes to support flexibility, fairness, and long-term system efficiency.
