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Clean Investment Monitor: Global H1 2026 Update
In the first half of 2026, global clean investment was 17% below the same period in 2025 and roughly in line with levels recorded in the first half of 2024.
Hannah Pitt
Director
Hannah is a Director in Rhodium’s Energy & Climate practice and manages the firm’s international energy research and global modeling tools.
Energy & ClimateHannah’s research focuses on the impact of policy and investment on clean technology deployment and greenhouse gas emissions. She leads the development of Rhodium’s Global Energy Model, an integrated modeling platform that captures uncertainty in the pace of economic and population growth, fossil fuel prices, and clean energy technology costs to provide probabilistic energy, emissions, and global temperature rise projections through the end of the century.
Before joining Rhodium, Hannah analyzed international climate finance mechanisms at the Center for Clean Air Policy, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. Hannah has a Master’s degree in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Research by Hannah Pitt
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Solar Manufacturing in Asia at a Crossroads
We dig into what’s been happening in Southeast Asia and India—regions that have absorbed the most solar manufacturing investment outside of the US, Europe, and China since 2018—and explore what these trends mean for broader diversification.
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Worlds Apart: Contrasting US-China Approaches to Scaling Clean Technology Manufacturing
Global clean tech manufacturing investment has moderated after a decade of extraordinary growth. China and the US were the primary drivers of that rise and the subsequent pullback—though the nature of each country's decline differs significantly.
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Forging a Global Clean Steel Economy: Leveraging Trade to Reduce the Green Premium
In steel production, fossil fuels are consumed primarily in the initial ironmaking step. We examine the major cost drivers of clean iron production and assess which countries are best positioned to produce it at low cost.