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BP is often derided for vacuous slogan’s like “Beyond Petroleum”. However, the oil major was a pioneer in implementing unconventional ideas that have since been instrumental in cutting emissions. In a speech at Stanford University in May 1997, BP CEO John Browne (now Lord Browne) announced that BP would
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The conventional argument behind the introduction of climate policies (such as carbon pricing, subsidies for renewable energy, and energy efficiency), is that consumers of energy will respond by switching over to lower carbon energy sources and becoming more energy efficient. Meanwhile, producers of fossil fuels, who now expect demand for
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A major compliance deadline in the California carbon market is approaching in November 2024. The race to secure sufficient emission allowances could spark the next big upward move in the state’s carbon price. Normal procedure requires obligated entities to surrender Californian Carbon Allowances (CCA’s) equal to 30% of
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Everything you need to know about carbon credits sourced from the ocean
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Australia’s new carbon market, the revised Safeguard Mechanism, launches this coming Saturday, 1st July. For an in-depth review of how it works, the companies most likely to be affected, and the prospects for decarbonisation of the Australian economy, check out Australia's carbon market reforms get the green
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Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine I published Collateral damage. In the article I discuss the main factors investors need to pay attention to when considering how the crisis could impact the EU carbon market: No market is immune from a crisis, no matter how compelling the underlying
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We don’t demand energy for its own sake, but for what it enables us to do. If energy is life, then we should be careful how we use it. Energy efficiency simply means using less energy to perform the same activity, eliminating waste. The “invisible fuel” as energy efficiency
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Heat is the backbone of any industrial process. Melting the steel that we need to build our bridges and trains, firing the cement kilns that provide the building blocks to construct our houses and offices, and the factories that heat the ceramics and glassware that we eventually eat and drink
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ESG investing promised the opportunity to combat climate change while also earning strong returns for investors. However, over recent years investors and regulators have questioned whether financial products under the ESG umbrella are actually helping the economy decarbonise. Meanwhile, greenwashing claims coupled with a political backlash, particularly in North America,
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Gas supply worries jolt Europe's energy markets
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The battle to supply the "last barrel" in a carbon constrained future