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The German government announced this week that it is launching a €50bn Carbon Contract for Differences (CCfDs) scheme aimed at helping heavy emitting industries bridge the decarbonisation investment gap. As I outline in my article below from May 2022, CCfDs give those industries that requiring many decades to recoup an
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The common refrain by critics of the voluntary carbon market is that by doing, or at least appearing to do good for the environment, carbon credits give companies the ‘moral license’ to carry on polluting the atmosphere, warm in the fuzzy glow that they can wave a certificate showing they
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Direct Air Capture (DAC) offers a scalable route to net zero
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I was recently invited to contribute an article on carbon pricing and commodity markets to the inaugural edition of Commodity Insights Digest (CID). The CID is a publication of Bayes Business School - City, University of London, in association with Premia Research LLC. You can find a link to my article
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The outlook for European aviation emissions
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The Indian economy is pivotal to the future direction of global carbon emissions
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“Air conditioning. Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics.” - Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, when asked about the secret to his country’s success.
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EUA investment fund positioning rebounds from record net short
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Aluminium is often referred to as “congealed electricity” One of the most notorious power hungry industries, it takes about 15 MWh of electricity to produce one tonne of aluminium. That’s more than three times as much energy as zinc and about 40 times more than copper or steel. Producing
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Fossil fuel subsidies act like a negative carbon price
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What Pennsylvania’s participation in RGGI means for emission allowance prices
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In an earlier post for Carbon Risk I referenced an article published in the Financial Times called ‘Carbon price: efficient market does its bit for the planet’. Coming just weeks after the EU carbon price reached €100 per tonne the author concludes that, “Finally, carbon has reached a price high