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 …
Category: Events

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 …
A new report from the IMF
Last week many representatives of the global business community gathered at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris for the Business and Climate Summit, a prequel of sorts …
A huge turnout in New York
I am in New York for Climate Week, which includes the UN Climate Summit on Tuesday. Sunday saw an enormous turnout for the People’s Climate …
A new call for carbon pricing
In the lead up to the UN Climate Summit in September this year, the Abu Dhabi Ascent was held on May 4-5th as the only preparatory …
Betting everything on one colour
In my last post I provided a short review of the IPCC 5th AR, WGIII on Mitigation, with the emphasis on one table which showed how …
What to make of 2013?
It’s difficult to sum up 2013 from a climate standpoint, other than to note that it was a year of contrast and just a little …
What to make of COP 19?
The flight from London to Warsaw this week gave me a chance to flick through the latest World Energy Outlook from the IEA (I couldn’t …
400 ppm and counting
The first full day of 400+ ppm CO2 as recorded at Mauna Loa in Hawaii last week produced an outpouring of sentiment and grief from …
A simple choice – 4°C or a carbon price
As if following on deliberately from the PWC report which I wrote about last week, come two new initiatives announced this Monday. The first is …