As an acknowledged global thought leader on the transition to a low-carbon economy, Michael is frequently quoted in the press an often asked to comment on TV, Radio or via Podcasts. On this page you will find links to notable media coverage of Michael and his views.
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6 January 2025
Hydrogen has become a beacon of hope; it should make industry free of emissions. But is it all just a big bluff? The documentation asks when hydrogen can be produced competitively and in sufficient quantities. It tur…
21 October 2024
Last week, October 15th, Michael was interviewed by Will Bain of the BBC to discuss Google’s new deal to use small nuclear reactors to generate the vast amounts of energy needed to power its data centres. Michael expl…
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1 December 2023
In November, Michael spoke with Hydrogen Insights about the controversial plans to host a hydrogen for home heating trial in the north English town of Redcar amid severe resident pushback.
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15 November 2023
In October, Michael was invited to Japan to speak about hydrogen and his evaluation of Japan’s “GX Basic Policy” which includes the use of hydrogen energy in various industrial fields and promote decarbonization. Read…
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15 November 2023
Michael sits down with Jesse Pinker from “Follow the Money” to talk about hydrogen and regulatory capture. Read this captivating article on why hydrogen is such a hot political topic and why it is so heavily pushed fo…
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10 July 2023
Last week saw the return of Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), eminent energy economist and thought leader at the heart of the turbulent world of energy to Cleaning Up with Micha…
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10 July 2023
Welcome to the latest Cleaning Up newsletter – thank you for providing your email via cleaningup.live and for joining us in keeping pace with the net-zero transition as it unfolds. Click here or ‘Read Full Article’ be…
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9 June 2023
In May, Michael had the honour of moderating the second annual Net Zero Delivery Summit, convened by the City of London Corporation and a significant stepping stone on the way to this year’s COP28. All the sessions fr…
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6 June 2023
Welcome to the latest Cleaning Up newsletter – thank you for providing your email via cleaningup.live and for joining us in keeping pace with the net-zero transition as it unfolds.
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30 May 2023
Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki and Kawasaki have announced a new research partnership that will consider the development of hydrogen-powered motorcycles that use internal combustion engines.
On May 17, 2023, the four manufa…
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11 May 2023
VC companies jostle to prove their green credentials. How much should venture capitalists worry about ESG scores and net zero goals when deciding which start-ups to take a punt on? Not much, according to Michael Liebr…
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9 May 2023
Entire isolation sub-networks can be decommissioned and made safe, and all the costs associated with them removed from the utility’s books.
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8 June 2022
London/New York/Palo Alto, 8th June 2022 – Capricorn Investment Group, one of the largest mission-aligned investment firms in the world has become a supporter of Cleaning Up – a podcast and YouTube series on leadershi…
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14 April 2021
London, 14 April 2021: Season 3 of Michael Liebreich’s YouTube Channel and Podcast, Cleaning Up, will kick off on Wednesday 14 April at 6pm BST (7pm CET, 1pm EST, 10am Pacific time) with a conversation with Tony Blair…
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28 October 2020
Could the future of nuclear power be the mass production of cheap small modular reactors? Justin Rowlatt visits a UK-based consortium led by Rolls Royce that is trying to develop these factory-produced miniature power…
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9 July 2020
Calgary, AB, Canada – July 9, 2020 – Eavor Technologies Inc. (“Eavor”), a global leader in the development of closed-loop geothermal power generation technology, has appointed Michael Liebreich to chair a ne…
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6 May 2020
The Pandemic has devastated public transport. Here’s how cities could get moving.
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5 May 2020
As Londoners start to look forward to the end of the lockdown, TfL is in need of a bailout. Otherwise, according to Sadiq Khan, it will run out of cash. On the face of it, there’s nothing remarkable about TfL needing …
18 March 2020
This episode is part two of the three-hour conversation. Part one was featured in Episode #116. Together, these two episodes make Part 12 of The Energy Transition Show’s mini-series on climate science.
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4 March 2020
This episode is part one of a THREE-hour conversation. Part two will be featured in Episode 117. Together, those two episodes make Part 12 of The Energy Transition Show’s mini-series on climate science.
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9 January 2020
In this episode: how a forward-looking energy expert, Michael Liebreich, saw the macrotrends in cleantech before most utilities, oil companies and investors — and then convinced them it would transform their business.
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27 November 2019
In this fascinating interview, Michael Liebreich discusses Australia’s huge opportunity and wonders why it is not already leading the world. It may be in rooftop solar, but in overall system change Liebriech says it i…
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21 November 2019
Never mind the climate, it’s the antipathy between clean energy believers and non-believers that is really heating up. But the world we inherit will be the world we have made, so instead of arguing about it Michael Li…
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21 November 2019
First, you get Atlassian boss Mike Cannon-Brookes on stage at his Sydney headquarters, plus Michael Liebreich who founded Bloomberg New Energy Finance, plus outfits like Ikea and Unilever. You draw in audience members…
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12 July 2019
If, as David Wallace-Wells so memorably put it, climate change is worse, much worse, than you think, then the net zero transition is big, much bigger, than you think.
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10 July 2019
The former freestyle champion turned golden boy is now concerned about the fate of the Diablerets. As an expert in sustainable development, he runs the Ecovillages forum every year in the Vaud resort.
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17 March 2019
On July 17th Michael was invited to create a podcast for DNV GL Talks Energy – Face the Facts series entitled ‘The Road to Resilience’.
In this latest episode of Face the Facts, Michael shares his opinion and insight…
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15 March 2019
If anyone can pull off a green home renovation with the minimum of fuss, it should be Michael Liebreich.
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15 March 2019
An Interview with ABC.es The big Spanish companies are very well placed in the face of the energy transition…
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1 March 2019
Exclusive: Students issue an open letter ahead of global day of action on 15 March, when young people are expected to strike across 50 nations
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21 February 2019
As we head into another cycle of climate change politics beware the economic doomsayers.
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15 February 2019
James Murray reflects on school strikes, theories of change, and vegan sausage rolls.
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4 February 2019
Climate Change: Can the world economy continue to grow without burning fossil fuels? Or do we all need to cut back on our consumption in order to save the planet?
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31 January 2019
It is easy to feel deflated after another UN Climate Summit failed to deliver the ambitious pledges that are required, but read between the lines and the signals for business leaders are hugely encouraging
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22 January 2019
Will global climate co-operation survive pressure on the liberal democratic order?
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10 January 2019
Will we all abandon our cars in favour of self-driving taxi apps by the year 2030, or is this pure fantasy?
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10 January 2019
A couple of months ago I wrote a wildly optimistic piece about how we’ve all probably bought our last cars.
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8 January 2019
The most popular climate paper of 2018 called for “collective human action” to keep global warming from turning Earth into a “hothouse,” according to media tracking data.
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17 December 2018
It is easy to feel deflated after another UN Climate Summit failed to deliver the ambitious pledges that are required, but read between the lines and the signals for business leaders are hugely encouraging
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13 December 2018
As 1982 drew to a close, Men at Work were midway through a 15-week stretch atop the Billboard album charts with “Business as Usual.” So they’ve got today’s intro tune…
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12 December 2018
Renewable Energy, Climate Change and Technology: Michael Liebreich and Azeem Azhar in Conversation
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26 November 2018
Germany will have to buy out utilities if it wants to speed up the pace of coal plant closures, RWE CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz told an energy conference in Berlin on Monday
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19 November 2018
Zach interviewed Michael Liebreich, the founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, right after that projection. Lieberich highlighted that it was completely insane that they would project that the same price decrease we…
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13 November 2018
One to watch: Michael Liebreich’s keynote address at the OECD Centre on Green Finance & Investment 2018 Forum.
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12 November 2018
Fossil fuel producers may need $90 billion a year or more to spread carbon capture technology
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5 November 2018
Secondly, one of the key talking points automakers have long used to push back on cleaner car regulations is the claim that “consumers don’t want these cars.”
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26 October 2018
Sustainable Development Capital LLP (SDCL) is delighted to announce that Michael Liebreich has joined SDCL as a Senior Advisor, effective immediately.
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26 October 2018
No.10. Project Bo comes online…
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26 October 2018
There are certain topics we at CleanTechnica find so important that we cover them from multiple angles. It’s like putting the pieces of a puzzle together to show the full picture.
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26 September 2018
In 2040, one third of the world’s energy consumption will come from the sun and wind, according to renewed bishop Michael Liebreich. But it is not enough. – It will take 332 years before electricity is responsible for…
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26 September 2018
In 2040, one third of the world’s energy consumption will come from the sun and wind, according to renewed bishop Michael Liebreich. But it is not enough. – It will take 332 years before electricity is responsible for…
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26 September 2018
Electric vehicles continue to gain market share at an accelerating rate, but electrification could go even further, expanding into the realm of commercial trucking, marine travel and even to airplanes.
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26 September 2018
Video: Michael Liebreich talks to Fatih Birol sharing insights on the future of clean energy.
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26 September 2018
Hydrogen economy offers big opportunities to decarbonise the UK but coordinated leadership from government and industry is needed, Policy Exchange report finds
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26 July 2018
One of the most difficult people I ever worked with was a very clever newspaper journalist with a stunning knack for getting scoops.One of the most difficult people I ever worked with was a very clever newspaper journ…
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26 June 2018
The UK’s fast expanding electric vehicle (EV) market could be about to receive a major boost, in the form of an ambitious £1.6bn plan to drastically extend the country’s fast charging network
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26 June 2018
With 1,177 exhibitors, 86,000 square meters of exhibition space and around 47,000 visitors from 155 countries, the launch of The smarter E Europe was a resounding success.
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26 June 2018
One of the highlights took place on the eve of the exhibition — the Conference Opening keynote speech by Michael Liebreich, founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, UK, which offered the large audience an in-depth and…
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26 May 2018
LISBON/BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – After learning that three babies died in a government hospital in the Sierra Leone city of Bo last November when a power cut switched off machinery keeping them alive, L…
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26 May 2018
Hydrogen is making headlines again, but is the excitement justified? Policy Exchange’s Joshua Burke investigates
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15 May 2018
One to watch: Michael Liebreich’s keynote address at the Energy Disruptors Unite 2018 Conference in Calgary.
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26 April 2018
The founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Michael Liebreich, recently launched the Project Bo crowdsourcing campaign, triggered when he saw a tweet last year from Dr Niall Conroy of University College Dublin, who w…
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26 April 2018
For the past hundred years, fossil fuels have dominated the energy industry creating a juggernaut in Big Oil. However, the increased popularity of renewable energy indicates that if fossil fuel companies want to keep …
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26 April 2018
For the past hundred years, fossil fuels have dominated the energy industry creating a juggernaut in Big Oil. However, the increased popularity of renewable energy indicates that if fossil fuel companies want to keep …
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26 March 2018
Renewable energy is now indisputably part of the mainstream electricity sector – part of what Michael Liebreich, the founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, calls “the new orthodoxy of the Three-Third World”.
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13 February 2018
On November 19, 2017 three babies at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Government Hospital in the city of Bo, Sierra Leone, died when a power shortage stopped their oxygen supply. Project Bo was established to e…
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13 February 2018
Charitable fund-raising drive aims to save babies lives by delivering solar and storage system to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Bo, Sierra Leone
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6 February 2018
Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has some front. On Monday, in the first Question Time of the parliamentary year, Turnbull was asked about the Greens’ proposal to buy back the grid and put a cap on returns to reduce pr…
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2 February 2018
Solar power prices have been dropping faster than people expected, even faster than experts expected, and even faster than bullish experts expected.
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26 January 2018
LONDON: When Saudi Arabia announced its plan to embark on a program of renewable energy construction last year, the largest renewable energy project in the Kingdom was Saudi Aramco’s solar car park, according to Micha…
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19 January 2018
A combination of digitisation, ever faster WiFi, and more advanced self-driving EVs could revolutionise green urban spaces – but how soon will this smart city vision be realised?
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19 January 2018
Ignite is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Liebreich to its advisory board to further strengthen the company’s strategic growth and scale up.
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16 January 2018
Bloomberg New Energy Finance founder and Transport for London board member Michael Liebreich has told tahawultech.com why he believes a world of autonomous cars is currently a distant reality that must overcome urban …
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22 December 2017
Opec’s influence, bringing back coal and responses to climate change
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14 December 2017
The solar, wind, battery, and electric car “miracles” have gone mainstream.
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13 December 2017
Michael Liebreich is a really smart guy…
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11 December 2017
Ahead of the One Planet Summit the EU has sent an admirable message to those communities that risk losing out as a result of decarbonisation
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23 November 2017
Bloomberg New Energy Futures predicted last year that electric cars would spur growth in food and retail developments around charging stations.
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23 November 2017
International and Irish energy experts are today exploring how Ireland can reduce its carbon emissions over the next decade, at a landmark Take Charge conference hosted by ESB and IIEA.
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11 November 2017
Speaking in September, the founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Michael Liebreich said “many hundreds of billions” of investors’ dollars have been squandered due to investment decisions led by poor energy forecast…
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8 November 2017
Until recently the battle to avert catastrophic climate change – floods, droughts, famine, mass migrations – seemed to be lost. But with the tipping point just years away, the tide is finally turning, thanks to innova…
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27 October 2017
On October 17, Australia’s federal government announced the bones of a new energy policy – the National Energy Guarantee – which seeks to (i) ensure reliability in the National Electricity Market and (ii) provide a cr…
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20 October 2017
Prices for new solar power projects are falling so fast that the cheapest prices from 2016 have become the ceiling price for solar today.
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17 October 2017
Amazon wants its drones to charge your electric car. Here’s why you won’t need them.
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17 October 2017
Computermodelle sind nur so gut wie die Zahlen, mit denen man sie füttert. Beim Basisszenario der Internationalen Energieagentur IEA sind die Zahlen schlecht. Die IEA unterschätzt seit Jahren systematisch das Wachstum…
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9 October 2017
Remember Gollum from Lord of the Rings? The Australian federal government is doing a pretty good impersonation of the twisted fictional character, as it wrestles with its own internal demons in trying to put together …
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5 October 2017
The world’s renewable electricity capacity is set to rise sharply over the next five years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says, expanding 43% on today’s levels.
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4 October 2017
A new International Energy Agency forecast this morning projects that worldwide renewable energy capacity will grow by another 43 percent over the next five years amid surging solar increases in China and other factors.
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1 October 2017
Michael Liebreich’s slidedeck for the recent BNEF Summit was, to use Zachary’s words, epic. I love his presentations too, and not just because the first girl I asked to marry me was a Liebreich. (No relation to Michae…
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29 September 2017
Banking giant says its $12.6bn environmental business programme supports almost 40,000 jobs and has avoided 2.37 million metric tonnes of CO2 being emitted in 2016 alone
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29 September 2017
Faulty energy forecasts are costing investors ‘hundreds of billions’Since September 2011, “many hundreds of billions” of investors’ dollars have been squandered due to investment decisions led by poor forecasts, an en…
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26 September 2017
It’s been said before, but it bears repeating, particularly given what former coal chief Ian Dunlop describes as the extraordinary stupidity of Australia’s energy debate:
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21 September 2017
With new technologies hitting the markets every day, renewables are becoming cheaper far faster than anyone anticipated. This trend puts clean energy in investors’ cross-hairs and spells the end of coal as the mainsta…
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20 September 2017
The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market.
That’s the conclusion of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, who…
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20 September 2017
‘This is going to happen. Nobody is going to make coal great again,’ says expert Michael Liebreich as green tech predicted to reap 86% of $10.2 trillion dollar power generation market by 2040
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19 September 2017
Banking giant says its $12.6bn environmental business programme supports almost 40,000 jobs and has avoided 2.37 million metric tonnes of CO2 being emitted in 2016 alone
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18 September 2017
“Bank of America has shown leadership with its long-term commitment to environmental finance,” said Michael Liebreich, chairman of the Advisory Board, Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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22 August 2017
In 1911, Winston Churchill, the new First Lord of the Admiralty, began to switch the navy’s most powerful battleships from coal to oil power.
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9 August 2017
Tesla recently announced delivery of the first 30 production units of its Model 3 electric vehicle (EV). EV technology has generated plenty of buzz in the electric utility industry over the past decade and, with last …
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2 August 2017
So there you have it: first Norway and the Netherlands, then France and now the U.K. have all stated their intent to phase out conventional petrol and diesel cars once and for all. For those who have been following th…
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26 July 2017
Electric cars will soon be as cheap as gas ones, “signaling economic turmoil for oil-exporting countries.”
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6 July 2017
Interview: Michael Liebreich gave Citywire his take on what the president’s Warsaw trip signals ahead of G20 talks this week.
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6 July 2017
Influential analyst firm BNEF upgrades EV adoption forecasts, tipping them to make up 54 per cent of new car sales by 2040
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28 June 2017
In the last 10 days, I have been travelling around North America presenting to senior executives from energy companies, policy-makers and investors a long-term forecast for the world’s electricity system that would ha…
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19 June 2017
Liebreich is the founder of Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance, and his analysis of the clean energy industry is the most accurate you can find. So every year, when the latest New Energy Finance “New Energy Outlook” is re…
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16 June 2017
But they still need a lot more investment if we’re going to make a dent in climate change.
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25 April 2017
Talking to Tom Heap at his ‘power station’ in Notting Hill, Michael Liebreich thinks we should think big: renovating all our homes could mean that we don’t need big new power stations like Hinkley.
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24 February 2017
Michael Liebreich talks to Simon Evans about the UK energy policy’s series of failures, in a new report from the House of Lordas economic affairs committee.
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15 December 2016
2016 has set the scene for what Michael Liebreich, founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, has termed a new ‘green revolution’ in efficiency and appliances.
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22 November 2016
An Article written by Bloomberg Journalist, Iain Wilson – Quoting Michael Liebreich’s Energy Outlook from the Bloomberg New Energy Finance APAC Summit, Nov 2016.
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22 November 2016
Michael Liebreich talks to Tom Heap about New US President elect Donald Trump being a climate change denier, and so what does his rise to power mean for the environment?
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18 October 2016
Michael Liebreich talks about visions for the future of the British countryside after Brexit.
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16 September 2016
Interview: Green Entrepreneur and London Conservative supporter, Michael Liebreich, analyses the situation in the UK and discusses the European Summit which opens today in Bratislana.
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2 September 2016
Power for All caught up with Michael Liebreich to ask his predictions for the future of decentralised renewables and energy access.
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15 June 2016
The international community must show Trump, and any other leaders that may follow suit, that other core diplomatic goals – such as Nato funding – will depend on honouring their climate commitments
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14 June 2016
UK power of the future increasingly looks green as the renewable energy sector gains backing from businesses signing up to sustainable electricity generation.
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10 April 2016
For the makers of solar, wind and other forms of clean energy, the future looks bright, with all-time-high investments and expanding markets throughout the world.
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5 April 2016
Michael Liebreich, chairman of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance advisory board, speaks about energy technologies and markets at the BNEF “Future of Energy” Summit in New York.
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20 January 2016
It’s the time of year for 2016 predictions, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Chairman of the Advisory Board, Michael Liebreich, anticipates corporations will continue their trend toward directly sourcing renewable e…
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5 December 2015
As the world gathers in Paris (COP21) to hammer out measures which all hope will slow the rise in global temperatures, In the Balance is in the city to debate the role of big business and big finance in what happens.
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10 November 2015
IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2015 acknowledges the increasing importance of non-hydro renewable energy, but retains unrealistically pessimistic estimates of cost reduction and future market growth.
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4 August 2015
This progress is not going to stop. Solar power is now seeing costs in the 6 to 8 cents/kWh range for good projects, before any subsidies. The cheapest we have seen is 5.84 cents/kWh on a project announced this year i…
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19 June 2015
Michael Liebreich was awarded the most prestigious accolade, the British Renewable Energy Judges Award 2015, an award specifically created by the judging panel to recognise outstanding contribution to renewables.
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24 April 2015
The Energy Gang talks with clean energy investment guru Michael Liebreich.
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17 January 2015
4th and final part of a four-part interview.
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5 July 2012
4th and final part of a four-part interview.
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2 July 2012
Part 2 of a four-part interview.
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1 July 2012
Part 1 of a four-part interview.
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1 June 2012
“Big wind farms in breezy locations such as the Great Plains in the US are now completely competitive with new coal-fired power stations.” By 2016, “the average wind farm in the US won’t need a subsidy at all”.
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17 April 2012
If this interview seems extraordinarily frank, it’s because I thought it was a background briefing and the journo didn’t tell me he was recording. It is basically a transcript of what I said in a long telephone conver…
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11 April 2011
Can you save the planet and make money at the same time? Meet the new generation of entrepreneurs making millions – even billions – from ‘clean tech’.
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8 May 2008
In a new study, New Energy Finance, an energy consultancy in London, shows that biofuels do have an effect on food prices but that this effect may not be quite as significant as some people think.
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27 September 2007
A version of the “prisoner’s dilemma” may suggest ways to break through the Kyoto impasse. The Economist Magazine devotes a whole page to my white paper on game theory and climate change.
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