The hidden cost of keeping cool

Everyone should have access to cooling, but its vital we purge this superpollutant

Tackling carbon wealth inequality

Welcome to Carbon Risk — helping investors navigate 'The Currency of Decarbonisation'! 🏭. Polluters impose costs on everyone else – a 'negative externality' in the economic jargon. The symptoms of climate change are expected to intensify as the Earth continues to warm: extreme heat, wildfires, flooding, etc. The health

Repost: Blue sky thinking

As climate policy splutters, governments should sell the benefits of clean air

Strings attached

The European Commission's proposals fail to counter systemic issues deterring investment in industrial decarbonisation

Curb your enthusiasm

Investment funds step back as EU ETS review nears

Scorchio!

The hot take on Europe's extreme heatwaves, why the ECB is worried but knows how to fix it, and why decarbonisation requires deeper Single Market integration

No such thing as a free allowance

Welcome to Carbon Risk — helping investors navigate 'The Currency of Decarbonisation'! 🏭. The European Commission is set to publish its EU ETS review on Friday (17th July). While there have been a few notable leaks to the media, the contents of the review remains speculation. Whatever emerges, it'

Putting a price on superpollutants

Welcome to Carbon Risk — helping investors navigate 'The Currency of Decarbonisation'! 🏭. In contrast to carbon dioxide, governments have been reluctant to enact policies to curb the release of methane into the atmosphere. Only 13% of global methane emissions are covered by any government policy, and even where they

The Polluter Pays (in) Principle

Or, one rule for me, another for thee

United states of net zero

Welcome to Carbon Risk — helping investors navigate 'The Currency of Decarbonisation'! 🏭. It is now almost 16 years since a proposal to limit America's greenhouse gas emissions using a nationwide cap-and-trade scheme was dealt a fatal blow. The legislation was supported by most Democrats and

How to survive CDR's "Death Valley"

Welcome to Carbon Risk — helping investors navigate 'The Currency of Decarbonisation'! 🏭. Read this article and more with a 30-day free trial Grab your free trial now On 17th June Frontier, the advanced market commitment (AMC) designed to accelerate CDR technological development, announced that it was pledging an

Britain's green credibility gap

Welcome to Carbon Risk — helping investors navigate 'The Currency of Decarbonisation'! 🏭. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced his resignation. Although nominations for the next leader are due by 9th July, the absence of any meaningful competition means that former mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, is

Losing steam

Europe's carbon capture and storage ambitions are starting to flag

Under-rated

Should we be pricing the compliance carbon risk curve?

Wall Street has not turned its back on climate change

Welcome to Carbon Risk — helping investors navigate 'The Currency of Decarbonisation'! 🏭. In January 2025 the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, the flagship coalition setup in 2020 to align the asset management industry with global climate goals, announced that it was suspending its activities. Days earlier, the worlds

The decarbonisation bargain

Welcome to Carbon Risk — helping investors navigate 'The Currency of Decarbonisation'! 🏭. A broad spectrum of viewpoints has emerged as EU ETS reform discussions begin to heat up. While some carbon-intensive industries want to continue with the blocs ambitious emission reduction targets, others are pushing for carbon compliance

Repost: California's 'energy transition' will not be linear

Welcome to Carbon Risk — helping investors navigate 'The Currency of Decarbonisation'! 🏭. Gasoline prices in California have surged by around 30% since the start of the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, and now stand at more than $6 per gallon, almost 40% above the US national average. In recent

EUAs reaching critical turning point

Despite the noise, EU ETS reform discussions are yet to start in earnest

Article 6 and the EU ETS, lessons from Japan

Welcome to Carbon Risk — helping investors navigate 'The Currency of Decarbonisation'! 🏭. Europe's policymakers are now reckoning with how to reform the EU ETS: to ensure that it remains politically viable, economically sustainable, and most importantly, retain its social license to operate. The EU ETS imposes a

CORSIA-correction required

UN carbon offset scheme likely to be superseded in Europe by the EU ETS

Setting the standard

A market-led approach to pricing methane emissions

What constitutes an “effectively paid” carbon price?

Welcome to Carbon Risk — helping investors navigate 'The Currency of Decarbonisation'! 🏭. Since the beginning of 2026, EU importers of carbon intensive products (iron & steel, cement, aluminium, fertilisers, hydrogen, and electricity) must factor in the cost of the embedded emissions. Importers can begin purchasing CBAM certificates (to cover

Hammer time

Financial institutions are bidding for a role in how permits are allocated

Low hanging plumes

Methane abatement suffers from opportunity costs and misaligned incentives