“Adaptation, by building resilience to climate impacts, avoids damaging decreases in income." - Nicholas Stern The Earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to rising GHG emissions. The Global Tipping Points report, led by the University of Exeter warns that warm water coral reefs now face long-term
A super-pollutant gets the cold shoulder
The evolution of carbon credits fits a pattern of financial innovation
The $500 billion Scope 3 opportunity
Investment funds race to stack EUA futures as price breakout looms
"Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair
Economic development coupled with climate policies is the pathway to lower emissions
Is this the next trillion dollar market?
With a little over three months until the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) comes into force on 1st January 2026, commodity traders are still battling to navigate their way through the regulation's last remaining ambiguities. In an attempt to address these concerns the European Commission
Decision to reauthorise Cap-and-Invest Program an inflexion point for carbon markets in North America
Coal-fired power generation capacity accounts for around 40% of Asia's energy mix, well above the global average of 25%. Although the share has dropped by 10 percentage points since 2010 (in part due to the rapid growth of solar generation capacity), continued investment in new coal-fired power plants
Newsletter
We are used to thinking about how movements in oil or natural gas prices can affect the fortunes of our biggest companies. Very few investors and analysts contemplate the impact that a significant change in carbon prices could have on the share price of individual firms. But as carbon prices