The Parties to the Paris Agreement spent the first two weeks of May in Bonn, discussing amongst other things, the so-called rule book of the …
Additionality and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
As negotiators gather in Bonn for another round of discussions on implementation of the Paris Agreement, various detailed issues are surfacing. One, which pertains to …
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Achieving the balance
The Paris Agreement calls for a “balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of the …
Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement
Over the past few months I have been deeply involved with my colleagues in the Shell Scenario team preparing a new scenario that illustrates a …
Crossing the Antarctic Circle
Visiting Antarctica is something most travellers there only ever do once, but over the last two weeks I have had the privilege of visiting the …
A CCS gold rush?
Later this year, the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C will be released and it is very likely to put great emphasis on the importance of …
It’s all in the numbers
One of the noteworthy features of the 160+ nationally determined contributions (NDC) submitted to the UNFCCC following the adoption (and now ratification) of the Paris …
