Green technology adoption and diffusion

CEP discussion paper

The Economics of climate innovation: technology, climate policy, and the clean energy transition

We examine the economics of climate innovation and its role in the clean technology transition. It outlines the incentives, market failures, and policy levers that shape the development and diffusion of clean technologie...Read more...

Eugenie Dugoua and Jacob Moscona

24 November 2025

CEP discussion paper

Cleaner energy, higher risk? Firm-level exposure to critical minerals

To what extent has the rise of clean energy technologies created new vulnerabilities in global supply chains? In this paper, I study the role of a new type of 'input uncertainty' associated with critical minerals that un...Read more...

Viet Nguyen-Tien

3 November 2025

CEP discussion paper

Nice work if you can get it? The distribution of employment and earnings during the early years of the clean energy transition

The transition to clean energy represents a fundamental and important shift in economic activity. We present new facts about workers in clean and legacy energy sectors between 2005 and 2019 using linked, administrative e...Read more...

Jonathan Colmer, Eva Lyubich and John Voorheis

9 October 2025

External report

Innovation in Green Technologies

Demand for cleaner, more efficient technologies is transforming global markets and with it, the geography of innovation. Over the last 15 years, markets for new energy technologies and climate resilience have outpaced gr...Read more...

Samuel Asuquo Edet, Chiara Criscuolo, Ejona Fuli, Selin Gonca Ozyurt, Ralf Martin, Chhavi Rastogi, Samuel Rosenow, Fabian Scheifele, Trang Thu Tran, Verena Wiedemann, Nadege Yameogo and Golvine de Rochambeau

15 July 2025

CEP report

The innovation race on geological carbon removal: who is best placed to lead?

This report analyses innovation activity represented by patenting data for two carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies - bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and direct air carbon capture and storage (DACC...Read more...

Josh Burke, Siyu Feng, Maxwell Read, Esin Serin and Ram Smaran Suresh Kumar

9 July 2025

Blog

Grantham Research Institute commentary:

Sustainable investment is good macroeconomics and fiscally prudent for the UK

In the global race for supremacy in 21st century markets, the UK must create expertise in building and deploying new energy technologies, and access the opportunities for stronger and more resilient growth that will brin...Read more...

Anna Valero and Dimitri Zenghelis

9 February 2024

Blog

Vox EU:

Fostering innovation for climate neutrality

Achieving climate neutrality will require cost reductions and the rapid diffusion of existing technologies, as well as innovation in new technologies. Mario Cervantes, Chiara Criscuolo, Antoine Dechezlepretre and Dirk Pi...Read more...

Mario Cervantes, Chiara Criscuolo, Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Dirk Pilat

1 June 2023