I work for Shell International Ltd. and I am the Chief Climate Change Adviser for Shell, working in the Shell scenarios team. I joined Shell in 1980 after graduating as a Chemical Engineer from the University of Adelaide in Australia. I have worked in refinery technology, oil trading and shipping areas for Shell.
I am a board member of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), was Chairman of IETA from 2011-2013 and I am also a board member of C2ES in Washington.
Author: dchone
Drawdown, or not?
A recent book and associated website discusses the steps necessary to address and even reverse the current warming of the climate system. The project, known …
Can the Paris Agreement survive?
There is an element of déjà vu to the events in the White House Rose Garden last week. Just days into my new job as …
Saving the CDM
Throughout the middle of May, the Parties to the Paris Agreement met in Bonn to continue negotiations relating to its implementation. Of particular interest to …
Invoking uncertainty can be perilous
The past couple of weeks have seen something of a storm of protest directed at Bret Stephens of the New York Times, following the publication of his first …
The USA and the Paris Agreement
On April 26th the Washington DC based Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) sent a letter to US President Donald Trump urging continued US participation …
A firm proposal for Article 6
Next month negotiators will convene under the auspices of the UNFCCC to start in earnest the process of putting flesh on the bones of the …
Not all roadmaps follow viable roads
There is certainly concern in the academic community that the world is following an emissions pathway which will result in overshoot in comparison with the …
