Global energy investment will reach a record €3.04 trillion in 2025, driven by clean technologies, despite geopolitical and economic uncertainties, according to the latest IEA report.
Increase in electricity consumption through 2027 expected to average around 4% annually, driven by growing use for industry, air conditioning, electrification and data centres.
IEA's latest monitor shows wide variations in clean energy deployment among regions and technologies amid increased manufacturing capacity and declining costs.
With solar leading their rapid deployment, renewables are on course to meet almost half of global electricity demand by the end of this decade, a new IEA report says.
Wind and solar power have reached a share of 30% of European Union (EU) electricity generation, overtaking fossil fuels for the first time.
The world has added 50% more renewable capacity in 2023 than in 2022 and the next 5 years will see the fastest growth yet.
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions hit a record high last year, even as more clean technologies such as solar power and electric vehicles helped limit the impact of increased coal and oil consumption, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Scientists warn that energy users around the world must dramatically reduce emissions to slow the ill effects of global warming.
Conducted in autumn 2025, the RICS Sustainable Real Estate Survey Europe gathered 112 responses from valuers, developers, investors and other professionals across 30 countries. The findings confirm that ESG has moved from a peripheral concern to a core driver of real estate value, risk and decision-making across Europe.
ProCredit Bank Romania has launched a CO2 Emissions Calculator to help microenterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises quantify and understand their carbon footprint. This initiative reflects the Procredit Group's commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, with client engagement at the core of its Climate Action Strategy.
DSV – Global Transport and Logistics, the world's largest logistics operator, has launched a solar installation at its warehouse in Łozienica, Poland, in partnership with commercial real estate investor Accolade. The installation will meet the energy needs of Poland's first multi-client warehouse equipped with an AutoStore system.
Etem Gestamp, the Sofia-based joint venture between Viohalco Group and Spain's Gestamp Group focused on aluminium extrusion and processing for the automotive industry, and Rezolv Energy, the Actis-backed independent power producer, have signed a 10-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) in Bulgaria. The VPPA will see Etem Gestamp buy electricity from Rezolv Energy's 461MW 'Vifor' wind farm, which is about to come onstream in Buzău County, Romania. It is the first cross-border wind PPA that has been publicly announced in Bulgaria.
DP World has launched a five-year coastal restoration programme to create underwater "forests" of native seaweed to boost marine life near the Constanța South Container Terminal on the Black Sea.
