🌅 A Record Year for Clean Energy Investment

SOURCE

BloombergNEF

WHAT TO KNOW

• Global investment in clean energy technology reached $2.3 trillion in 2025, up 8% from the year prior to mark a new record high. Most investment was poured into electric vehicles ($893 billion), renewable energy ($690 billion), and power grids ($483 billion), with additional funding going to heat pumps, battery storage, nuclear power, and other technologies that could help curb the global demand for fossil fuels.

WHY IT MATTERS

• The new report from BloombergNEF found China is still the global leader in clean energy investment, despite experiencing its first decline in funding for renewable power in more than a decade as new regulations came into effect that slowed the buildout of wind and solar. Investment in Europe also grew 18% to $455 billion, contributing the most to the global increase. Other research shows wind and solar provided more power to the E.U. last year than fossil fuels for the first time ever.

CONNECT THE DOTS

• Clean energy investment grew by just 3.5% in the U.S. amid the Trump administration’s gutting of federal support for renewables and its harmful push to revive the coal industry (including a bizarre new mascot named “Coalie”). Experts say that while the global clean energy transition may be unstoppable, the present analysis shows it can be slowed down in the U.S. as policy clashes with reality. Other data from BloombergNEF shows, prior to Trump returning to office, electric vehicles were expected to represent nearly half of all U.S. car sales by the end of this decade. Now, they’re on course for only a third.