How might the 2020s unfold? Will we be blighted by COVID-19 for years to come? Or will the 2020s follow the pattern of the post-war, …
An alternative to allocating removal quotas
Over the last few months I have posted a number of articles on carbon dioxide removal (CDR), highlighting the need for this set of practices …
Shining a light on carbon dioxide removal
An important research paper emerged recently from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP), raising the profile of carbon dioxide …
Can renewable deployment be exponential?
In recent months we have all had to learn quickly about exponential rates of change as COVID-19 spread throughout the world, but as has been …
Formulating an Article 6.2 transaction
While Article 6 of the Paris Agreement remains in negotiating limbo, the text that emerged from Madrid for Article 6.2 gives a very strong indication …
A Climate-Neutral EU by 2050
As the EU works to reset its emission reduction goals to align more closely with the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement, a question arises …
Getting going with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
Article 6 was inserted into the Paris Agreement with a view to providing similar compliance flexibility to that offered by the trading mechanisms within the …
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40 years on . . .
Last week I celebrated something of a milestone – 40 years in Shell. Those years have been spread over different areas of the business, starting …
The third runway by the numbers
Last week the project proposal for a third runway at Heathrow in London was put on hold after a successful court challenge based on climate …
Aviation futures
The aviation industry accounts for nearly one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually against a global total in excess of 40 billion tonnes, which means …
Getting to net-zero emissions with the EU ETS
Perhaps the biggest policy development of 2020 (possibly lasting through to 2023 or so as all the legislative requirements are agreed and put in place) …
