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Inside the Transition: The outlook for COP 30 and the road ahead

October 6, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Knut Haanaes in Energy • 2 min read • Podcast available

Knut Haanaes and Julia Binder explore the front lines of the energy transition with Paul Watkinson, revealing the politics, tech, and strategies shaping a sustainable world....

How to manage yourself through a transition

September 30, 2025 • by Cindy Wolpert, Francesca Giulia Mereu in Energy • 10 min read

Transitions can test even the strongest leaders. Follow this guide to navigate your way through, focus your energies, and thrive. ...

Why businesses should care about voluntary biodiversity credits

September 25, 2025 • by Adrian Dellecker in Energy • 6 min read

The nascent market of voluntary biodiversity credits offers businesses an innovative way to invest in nature, creating new opportunities to support measurable conservation outcomes....

Climate risk is financial risk

September 18, 2025 • by Mindy Lubber in Energy • 7 min read

As climate shocks escalate and US politics push back, companies must treat climate risk as financial risk and integrate it into governance and long-term strategy....

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The energy trilemma: why it pays to get the balance right

September 2, 2025 • by Ann-Christin Andersen , Karl Schmedders in Energy • 9 min read

Dealing with the conflicting demands of price, sustainability, and security of energy supplies is challenging, but it’s a useful way to assess your firm’s resilience and agility....

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The new limits of growth

September 1, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Energy • 9 min read

In the final article of our series, we explore how businesses face hard planetary and geopolitical limits that make the “business as usual” growth model untenable as climate shocks, biodiversity loss, and...

The Wild West of tech sovereignty

August 27, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Energy • 7 min read

The race for tech sovereignty is intensifying as AI’s growth drives fierce competition for the rare minerals, chips, energy, and talent that underpin advanced computing. Supply chain fragility, geopolitical tensions, and export...

The end of cheap everything?

August 25, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Energy • 7 min read

After decades of cheap everything, a new economic order is emerging where the old world of unquestioned abundance is over. In the third part of our five-article series, we explore how this...

How circularity is becoming your best defense

August 21, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Energy • 9 min read

In this second article of our series on geopolitics and circularity, we examine how the scramble for critical inputs is fueling a new era of resource wars and what it means for...

Power, scarcity, and the new rules of the game

August 18, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Energy • 7 min read

This first article on the intersection of geopolitics and circularity explores what the end of globalization means for trade relations and business strategies, and how circularity can offer a solution to a...

What if Europe’s biggest risk isn’t war – but running out of power?