General Energy
The World Needs a Radical Change in Both Supply and Demand to Reach Paris Agreement
The climate agreement reached in Paris was an unprecedented global achievement. Unfortunately, the climate action plans submitted by the signatory countries fall far short of the energy shift the world needs. Recently released reports by the Energy Transitions Commission highlight what needs to be done to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees C and elaborate on pathways for how to go about doing it.
Industrialised Nations Must Lead an Exit Strategy for Fossil Fuels
Energy efficiency and renewables are indispensable weapons in the fight against climate change, but the real challenge is keeping fossil fuel reserves in the ground.
A Small Country Goes Big with Renewables: Denmark’s goal to be fossil fuel free
Denmark is making a big commitment to renewables. In the early 1970s imported oil supplied 92 percent of Denmark’s energy.
Ten Things More Important than the Clean Power Plan in Limiting Carbon Emissions in the U.S.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a stay to halt the Clean Power Plan regulation. Here are ten policies, trends, and market forces that are having a larger substantive impact on the trajectory of CO₂ emissions in the U.S. than the Clean Power Plan will.
As Oil Prices Gyrate, Underlying Trends Are Shifting To Oil’s Disadvantage
Why should equity markets tank when oil prices do? Beats me. Among many sources of jitters, this shouldn’t be a big one (though The Economist demurs). When oil prices fall 70+ percent, oil companies and their lenders and investors suffer, so do oil-dependent communities, but oil users (far more…