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 …
Category: Net zero emissions
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 …
Why is Article 6 so contentious?
The Parties to the UNFCCC convened in Bonn through the second half of June to continue discussions relating to the Paris Agreement, but particularly to …
Is Direct Air Capture the future?
Almost all scenario thinking that relates to the goal of net-zero emissions during the second half of this century has to consider the role of …
Getting to net-zero emissions in the UK
Last week the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in the UK released its much anticipated report which is recommending that the government revise its emissions goal to …
Encouraging CCS Deployment
Recently I attended a workshop hosted by KAPSARC on the potential for a dedicated mechanism to spur the deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Technology …
Digging deeper into the Sky scenario
About a year ago Shell released the Sky Scenario. Sky is designed to explore a challenging but technically possible pathway to achieving the objectives of …
