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
A Catch 22 for the EU
The EU Spring Council 2007 set out its stall for a new international agreement, committing the EU to a 20% reduction by 2020 compared to …
The price is right
Over the past few months the price of allowances in the EU-ETS has fallen quite sharply, down from €25 per tonne of CO2 in the …
It begins with energy
So said President Barack Obama in his pre-budget speech on Tuesday night as he unveiled the core elements of the budget that he will present …
The much maligned EU-ETS
The EU Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) started up successfully in 2005 and its critics haven’t stopped finding fault since. Unfortunately, these critics rarely tell the …
A bit of focus please
Amongst the continuing gloomly financial news this week, we were reminded that the impact of climate change is unaffected by the short term prospects of the …
The big picture
This week in the “Green Room” on the BBC News website the opinion article discusses the role of population and the environment. Not surprisingly a furious debate …
What about the recession?
Another area of active debate at the moment is the extent to which we should be respondong to climate change whilst in the depths of …
More focus on Antarctica
Whilst we hear much about the rapidly vanishing sea ice in the Artic, Antarctica seems to go relatively unnoticed. Until recently that is. The following …
Can Emissions Trading Deliver?
From Whitehall to the Whitehouse (http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/energy_and_environment) energy is on the agenda. With the recent high cost of energy still on policy makers minds, difficulties with …
A Blueprint for the Future
The US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) has now released its Blueprint for Legislative Action, a weighty weighty 24 page document which gives a complete overview …
