Shell has been a pioneer in developing scenarios to explore the future and deepen its strategic thinking for nearly 50 years. In the 1990s, the …
Category: Scenarios
Invoking uncertainty can be perilous
The past couple of weeks have seen something of a storm of protest directed at Bret Stephens of the New York Times, following the publication of his first …
Carbon storage or use?
Last week I was at a meeting of major industrial emitters and the discussion moved on to the subject of carbon capture. This shouldn’t have …
Carbon pricing in 2016
Given that 2016 marked the first full year of climate policy development after COP21 in Paris and was the year in which leaders lined up …
Materials in a transition
In thinking about the energy transition, it is easy to look at the status quo and compare it with a clean energy future of renewables, …
Doing the energy maths
In a recent Guardian article, columnist George Monbiot takes on the Governments who have signed and are in the process of bringing the Paris Agreement …
A global timeline to net-zero emissions
Last week turned out to be a busy one on the climate calendar, with multiple events across Europe and North America. In the case of …
