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
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) …
The future of carbon pricing
At this time of the year I usually review the progress in implementing carbon pricing around the world, but it seems timely to look more …
What to make of Article 6 at COP25?
I spent a week at COP25 in Madrid, with great hope that the negotiators would land the Article 6 text and complete the so-called Paris …
Article 6: A job to do at COP25
As the Parties and representatives of the many UNFCCC observer organisations gather in Madrid, there is talk of increased mitigation ambition and the need to …
An Article 6 Case Study: Brazil
In a recent post I illustrated how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement might work in practice, using a small set of archetype countries as …
Carbon budgets, CCS and the energy transition
One of the key talking points of the recent Climate Summit in New York was the carbon budget available for a transition that could limit …
How might Article 6 work in practice?
This is a critical year for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. The ‘rule book’ wasn’t agreed at COP24 in Katowice, so the focus of …
Looking again at carbon pricing
It is Climate Week in New York and among the police barricades at the UN, the protests and traffic there is still the opportunity for …
