Two incidents at the start of the week highlighted the difficulty of finding global consensus on how to tackle the threat of climate change, or even agreeing what the threat …
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Going Green is not That Easy for Electric Vehicles
To quote a battery engineer: “For the European auto companies to change over to electric vehicles is like turning a battleship. And it’s a battleship with a mutinous crew.” As …
Read More »The Week in Energy: Capturing Carbon
In addressing the threat of global warming, capturing and storing the carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel power plants is widely seen as a necessity. Back in 2009, John Ashton, …
Read More »New Technologies, Not Paris Climate Agreement, Will Do the Job
Since climate change began to gain political traction in 1990, very little has been achieved. The concentration of carbon in the atmosphere has kept going up. Lots of money has …
Read More »Renewables Offer G20 Countries the Best Opportunity to Achieve Climate Goals
The IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C, released in October 2018, was unequivocal: urgent global action at an unprecedented scale and speed are needed if the …
Read More »Why Natural Gas Prices Are Breaking Out?
Major disconnects between prices and fundamentals don’t last forever. And when these disconnects revert back to the fundamentals, prices can move quickly and investors can make a lot of money. …
Read More »Blockchain: A New Tool to Accelerate the Global Energy Transformation
Blockchain was one of the big topics of conversation in September 2018 at IRENA Innovation Week, where more than 400 corporate leaders, government officials and experts at the forefront of energy …
Read More »Can Green Bonds Help Us Manage Climate Risk?
This autumn, Affirmative Investment Management (AIM) participated in the annual Ny-Ålesund Symposium, which focused on climate risks. It was timed just ahead of the release of the 2018 UN Intergovernmental …
Read More »Now Near 100 Million bpd, When Will Oil Demand Peak?
Sometime in the next few weeks, global oil consumption will reach 100 million barrels per day (bpd) – more than twice what it was 50 years ago – and it …
Read More »The Week in Energy: Climate Shock
The difference between 1.5C and 2C of global warming might not sound like much, but according to the scientists who work on the reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
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