The U.S. and European Union have plans to unleash roughly $1.1 trillion combined in funding through 2027 as part of a clean-energy race to lower carbon emissions, according to a new tally from the BlackRock Investment Institute. That was a big bump up from pledges of about $200 billion each (see chart) in the years before the pandemic, which gave rise to major governmental funding initiatives on both sides of the Atlantic to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.
Some $1.1 trillion is being aimed at transitioning the U.S. and the European Union to clean energy through 2027.
BlackRock Investment Institute, Rocky Mountain Institute and European Commission
A BlackRock Investment team led by Wei Li, global chief investment strategy, said recent policy initiatives, including the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, have opened up investment opportunities that have “so far gone largely under the radar,” in a Monday client note. They called the clean-tech push a “strategic priority for countries,” given the growing fragmentation of the geopolitical backdrop, which has Australia, Canada and the U.K. “set to jump in,” causing the race to accelerate. BlackRock
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