Transforming Economies through Green Investment: Needs, Progress, and Policies

Authors from the Ecologic Institute lay out a roadmap for the United States and European Union to transition to a clean energy economy and protect the climate. The roadmap calls for policymaking that drives investment in clean energy technologies at an annual level of $1 trillion by 2026, much of which will come from the private sector.

The report, by the Ecologic Institute, with GMF support under the Transatlantic Climate Bridge initiative, reinforces a central message in President Obama's 2010 State of the Union address. The President emphasized that 'providing incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future-because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.'

Addressing this sentiment, the report provides guidance on a range of important questions that U.S. and European policymakers will face in coming months as they debate energy legislation.