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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
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The United States is set to become a carbon capture superpower later this decade, but it will need a massive expansion in its CO2 pipeline infrastructure if it is to reach its full strength. The US is crisscrossed by ~4.2 million kms of pipelines, predominantly funnelling trillions of cubic
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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