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 …
Carbon sinks and reform of the EU ETS
On Wednesday morning of this week, POLITICO held a virtual event: “Energy Visions: Carbon removal and natural sinks in reaching climate neutrality by 2050”. I …
Cities and climate action
Cities may well be key to reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement and the Paris Metropole has an opportunity to lead climate action at …
The short term climate ambition
If carbon dioxide emissions are to fall by 50% by 2030, i.e. to 20 Gt, then what might that look like? In just a decade …
A new goal for China
China has set the goal of being carbon neutral by 2060. What might the transition look like and what has to happen in the 2020s …
