Two key advantages of fossil fuels are the energy density of the fuel itself and the ease of storing energy that a molecule based fuel …
Are we now range bound on temperature?
In my last post I discussed the recent IEA 1.5°C Scenario that sets out what is required to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and manage …
Pathways to 1.5°C
In 2018 when the IPCC released their Special Report on 1.5°C, they presented four archetype scenarios to help readers understand that there were fundamentally different …
An ambitious step-up on transport
Last week the German government announced a step-up in their ambition to reduce emissions, with a new target date for net-zero emissions of 2045. This …
A ten year reduction challenge for the USA
In April, at the opening of the White House Climate Summit, President Biden announced the United States Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the period up …
A very different pathway forwards for India
As COP 26 approaches, the UK government (as President of the COP) and the UNFCCC are encouraging as many countries as possible, in accordance with …
Growing pressures
The task of getting to net-zero emissions by 2050 has become the rallying cry behind COP 26 and considerable diplomatic effort is now being applied …
The importance of sinks
A review of the 2018 IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C shows that all four archetype scenarios (P1, P2, P3 and P4) make use of sinks …
Exploring the energy future
Three scenarios, Waves, Islands and Sky 1.5 explore the energy landscape out to 2100 and reveal very different possible pathways forward. All three are transformational …
Accelerating the US energy transition
Today a new energy transition is gaining pace in the US, built on the back of the falling costs of wind, solar and batteries. But …
Electric vehicles and 2030
Over a decade ago in one of my very first posts in this blog, I responded to what appeared to be a working assumption in …
