About a year ago the Shell Scenario Team released the Energy Transformation Scenarios, which looked in detail at possible pathways the world might take in …
Category: Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
Article 6 at COP26
My home country, Australia, seems to reside permanently in the international climate doghouse, but a closer look reveals that they have made steady progress on …
The simple climate maths the IPCC didn’t fully explain
When I first started delving into the issue of climate change about 20 years ago, the clarion call of the day was to reduce emissions …
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Pathways to 1.5°C
In 2018 when the IPCC released their Special Report on 1.5°C, they presented four archetype scenarios to help readers understand that there were fundamentally different …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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