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Political decisions, economic realities: The...
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Powering down coal: Navigating the economic and...
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The A-Z of the Energy Transition: Knowns and Unknowns
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ESG Indexes: The New Frontier or Business as...
This blog was originally posted here on 26 May 2020. It is reprinted with permission. The world of Environmental, Social and Governance...
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26 May 2020
Coal Bailout Infects Weakened State Budgets
The sudden economic downturn brought on by the Coronavirus threatens to cripple the finances of U.S state governments. The emergency has...
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20 May 2020
The road ahead after COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic shut economies, disrupted established global production chains and pressed an indefinite pause on the ‘old’...
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19 May 2020
Eni – the first oil company to lay out a strategy of managed decline?
At the end of February, Italian oil major Eni announced new carbon emissions reduction plans. While not aiming for net zero across all...
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12 May 2020
Total’s extended emissions ambition: more of the same
In ancient Greek theatre, deus ex machina (“god from the machine”) is when a seemingly intractable plot issue is suddenly...
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11 May 2020
Carbon budgets: Where are we now?
This blog updates our 2018 note Carbon Budgets Explained. Carbon budgets – the amount of carbon dioxide emissions permitted over a...Popular Reads
How to waste over half a trillion dollars: The economic implications of deflationary renewable energy for coal power investments
We carry out scenario analysis to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and demand will...
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Political decisions, economic realities: The underlying operating cashflows of coal power during COVID-19
We carry out scenario analysis to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and demand will...
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The Covid-19 crisis is showing up the oil and gas industry’s exposure to the threat of falling demand, a forewarning of what...
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The IEA on Thursday[1] released some eye-watering projections for energy demand declines in 2020 in the light of the Covid19...
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The 2019 report on the Speed of the Energy Transition by the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Energy described two...
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One of last year’s key developments relating to climate change risks was a handful of fossil fuel producers agreeing to show...
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Korea needs to phase-out unabated gas by 2050 in a Paris-aligned scenario or potentially risk $60 billion in stranded assets As...
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Written by: Greg Rogers, Theron Horton, Rob Schuwerk Is the goal to get out all of the oil, or get out of the retirement...
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The arms race in setting carbon emissions targets is such that Shell, once one of the industry leaders when it announced its...
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Building and operating coal is becoming a political decision that increasingly conflicts with underlying economic...
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At this time of crisis, the immediate issue is to solve the health and economic emergencies, and we salute the heroes of the...
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I was sitting in a hot tub in Leningrad in the summer of 1990 when I realised the Soviet Union would fall. There were five of...
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COVID-19 is crippling economies and creating turmoil in financial markets. This note gives our outlook for coal generation in...
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COVID-19 continues to shake the global economy, and energy markets are no exception. Oil in particular finds itself caught...
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The piece originally was posted to the World Economic Forum website on March 18, 2020. The impact of China's previous...
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Fanning the Flames: How executives continue to be rewarded to produce more...
Oil Analyst Note March 2020Company pay practice doesn’t yet live up to climate ambition, with the gap between stated ambition and demonstrable action...
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Coal developers risk wasting more than $600 billion because it is already cheaper to generate electricity from new renewables...
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The piece originally was posted to LGIM Future World Blog on February 26, 2020. It is reprinted with permission. By Nick...
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The Flip Side: Stranded Assets and Stranded Liabilities
Climate risk disclosure Analyst Note February 2020Carbon Tracker’s fundamental insight is that the oil and gas industry’s growth plans do not fit in a low carbon world. As...
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Amid ever-increasing concerns over climate risks, BP is the latest European oil and gas company to announce a climate goal with...
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According to Carbon Tracker analysis, Indonesia has 15 coal-fired plants (6.4 GW) aged 20 years and older. The decision to...
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The cost of failing to anticipate an Inevitable Policy Response to climate change In this report, we look at the...
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The purpose of this note is to: Address RWE’s response to our recent report Apocoalypse Now, by acknowledging that, per...
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Coal power is losing its economic footing. As detailed in Figure 1, according to Carbon Tracker analysis, which is based on...
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SSE aligns with Carbon Tracker’s Paris-compliant methodology for coal...
Coal Flash Note December 2019In November, SSE confirmed that its remaining hard coal units at Fiddler’s Ferry power plant in the UK will close by 31...
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Iberdrola aligns with Carbon Tracker’s Paris-compliant methodology for...
Coal Flash Note December 2019Iberdrola announced at the opening of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25) this week it will...
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Repsol has just announced a shift in strategic direction – to become a net zero emissions company by 2050. This move extends...
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Economist Ann Pettifor is one of several leading thinkers publishing books on the Green New Deal (GND) this year. However unlike...
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To deflate the carbon bubble and protect investors, oil & gas companies must shrink The world’s listed oil and gas majors...
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The energy complex has EU coal generators in a chokehold. Are policymakers and investors prepared for what comes next? In this...
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Carbon Tracker's mission is to align investors strategies to climate change action. We recognise that there is...
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The economic viability of new and existing coal in Japan could be severely undermined by cheap renewables and, without policy...
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Once upon a time – the 1990s if you are interested -- there was a wondrous oil company called Exxon. It was run by a clever...
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Submission to Treasury Committee on Green Finance & Decarbonisation...
Climate risk disclosure Blog September 2019Carbon Tracker's Mike Knight submitted evidence to the Treasury Select Committee inquiry into the decarbonisation of the UK...
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This report provides an update to our 2017 and 2018 "2 Degrees of Separation" reports, along with an updated methodology. The...
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Gradual or Rapid Energy Transition: What path are we on? The energy industry is complex, and understanding the major trends...
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The Amazon is burning, Greenland is melting, the US is rolling back environmental protections, and the energy sector consensus is...
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Falling renewable costs and intermittency solutions drive a tipping point for the Inevitable Policy Response The Inevitable...
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At Carbon Tracker - our research focus is the impact of climate change on financial markets. Our global coal report, Powering...
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Last week Carbon Tracker’s power & utilities team was in Manila to attend the launch of a UK government-funded project to...
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During the inaugural London Climate Action Week - Carbon Tracker co-hosted the Climate Risk and the Capital Domino Effect event...
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Climate Action 100+ power utility profiles for mainstream investors to align with Paris and manage energy transition...
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Recently Carbon Tracker’s power and utilities team travelled to Vietnam to market our latest analyst note, Here Comes the Sun...
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14 June | The Vatican Mary Robinson served as president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and as UN High Commissioner for Human...
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The following piece originally was posted to Oilprice.com on March 3, 2019. It is reprinted with permission. Investors are...
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Vietnam’s low-cost renewables revolution and its implications for coal power investments Key findings: ...
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The UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) has reported on its recommended targets for the UK to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions...
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Reporting for a Secure Climate: A model disclosure for upstream oil and gas
Climate risk disclosure Report May 2019There is growing attention on the potential impacts of climate-related risks on the upstream oil and gas sector A 2019 report by...
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The argument is often made that oil reserves have high natural decline rates which necessitate the continuous investment in and...
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ConocoPhillips: Concerned on Capex, Cagey on the Dwindling Carbon Budget
Climate risk disclosure Blog March 2019ConocoPhillips’ February 2019 climate report lays out a thoughtful approach to governing climate risk. It addresses...
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Why shareholders should rethink executive reward For much of the early part of this century, the oil and gas industry was in...
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The missing link – bridging the gap between emission targets and fossil...
Climate risk disclosure Blog February 2019To manage against the goals of the Paris Agreement, oil companies like Chevron must factor scope 3 emissions into their capital...
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BP and Glencore announce plans to link fossil fuel investments to Paris Agreement goals 2019 is shaping up to be the year in...
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In this study we review the remuneration practice used in the oil and gas industry and look at alignment with either growth or...
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By Anthony Hobley Attending Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting is like being thrown into the centre of...
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The political tipping point: Why the politics of energy will follow the...
Energy transition Analyst Note January 2019The political tipping point is coming. The falling costs of renewables are driving a political tipping point where politicians...
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Our New Energy Strategist co-authored this report for the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Fundamental changes...
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Why carbon intensity ambitions are welcome, but strict limits on future project sanction remain the route to Paris...
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What can the global oil and gas sector learn from the decline of the European electricity sector after 2007? The story of the...
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Arriving into Katowice Poland, host city for COP24, you were immediately struck by the obvious conflict at the heart of the UN...
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Myths of the Energy Transition – Don’t Let Stranded Economic Thinking...
Energy transition Blog December 2018In the 2014 film Merchants of Doubt a small group of well funded lobbyists cast doubts over the science linking tobacco to lung...
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Myths of the transition: Hard-to-abate sectors prevent an energy transition
Energy transition Analyst Note December 2018Myth 3. Hard-to-abate sectors prevent an energy transition This is the third of the Energy Transition Myth Busters series,...
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This interactive portal and accompanying report track the economic and financial risks of coal power at the asset-level...
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Adding a Green Economy to a Brown Economy Does Not Equal Success.
Energy transition Blog November 2018Our Take on OECD Green Finance 2018 Over 2 days in Paris, 13-14 November business leaders, Government policy makers, NGOs and...
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This blog originally appeared on the IEEFA website By Tom Sanzillo, Kathy Hipple and Clark Williams-Derry Invest in the...
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Myths of the transition: The intermittency of renewables prevents an...
Energy transition Analyst Note November 2018Myth 2. The intermittency of renewables will prevent the transition This is the second of the Energy Transition Myth Busters...
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Myths of the transition: Renewables are too small to matter
Energy transition Analyst Note November 2018Myth 1. Renewable energy sources are too small to impact the giant fossil fuel sector. This is the first of a series on the...
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Economic and financial risks of coal power in Indonesia, Vietnam and the...
Coal Report October 2018Examining the stranded asset risk of coal plants in Indonesia, Vietnam and The Philippines These three country briefings...
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By Paul Spedding BP chief executive Bob Dudley is at risk of being branded an altruist if his “Oil and Money” speech to...
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Nowhere to hide: Using satellite imagery to estimate the utilisation of...
Power Report October 2018In this report, we present the results from a revolutionary method pioneered by Carbon Tracker to use satellite imagery to...
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Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, refers to technologies that allow us to capture CO2 at the source of its production and...
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The peak in fossil fuel demand will have a dramatic impact on financial markets in the 2020s. The global energy system is...
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One of the questions we are most frequently asked by investors is – how can we tell if a company is “Paris compliant”? This...
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The asset economics and financial implications of Energa’s and Enea’s proposed new Ostrołęka coal power plant C In this...
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Mobilising IOSCO to take action on the TCFD recommendations
Climate risk disclosure Report August 2018This report was produced by Client Earth, WWF and Carbon Tracker The International Organization of Securities Commissions...
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Market counts down to the MSR The EU carbon market has been the hottest commodity market in the world over the last 16...
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In the nexus of climate change and financial markets, disclosure is the flavour of the day. Carbon Tracker recently analysed...
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Guest Blog from Greg Rogers, Co-founder, Eratosthenes LLC In a classic scene from the 1976 American comedy, The Gumball Rally,...
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This report updates our 2 Degrees of Separation report, published in June 2017 2 Degrees of Separation laid out a framework...
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EV Oil Demand Displacement Interactive Tool This report and accompanying interactive tool look exclusively at...
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Since the start of the year, EU carbon has doubled in value, raising the possibility of coal to gas switching in power...
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Under The Microscope: Are companies’ scenario analyses meeting...
Climate risk disclosure Report May 2018This paper provides in-depth analysis of the company disclosure of the largest oil and gas companies: BP, Chevron, Conoco...
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One year ago we posted here comes the sun – a blog which found the lowest solar bid of 2017 could be less than the cash cost of...
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Several financial institutions have recently announced they will stop funding new coal power projects, with HSBC being the...
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Closing the Gap to a Paris-compliant EU-ETS Carbon pricing, whether via cap-and-trade schemes or taxes, is not sufficient on...
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Well Cooked? EOG Resources drops resolution on GHG emissions
Climate risk disclosure Blog April 2018An SEC decision allowed EOG Resources to exclude a shareholder resolution on GHG emissions A recent SEC decision allowing EOG...
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Falling Short – An assessment of ExxonMobil’s disclosure of...
Climate risk disclosure Report March 2018This is the first in a series of reports on company scenario analyses, focusing on ExxonMobil This paper seeks to assist...
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Trial and Error: Occidental’s first stab at climate-related risks
Climate risk disclosure Blog March 2018Summary Occidental neglects demand fundamentals in its 2°C analysis and opts for the foregone conclusion of a test against...
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This study updates our report 2 Degrees of Separation, and for the first time quantifies risk of overinvestment under a 1.75ᵒC...
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Chevron’s recent climate change disclosures become the first to reach down to the asset level, but remain light on useful...
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Summary The operating costs of coal units are complex and depend on many variables. Coal units are complex, long-life...
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ExxonMobil's Energy and Carbon Summary is a step in the right direction, but lacks clarity across a number of...
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A PDF version of this paper is available here. An updated version of this note is available now in Carbon Budgets: Where are...
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Our analysts Matt Gray and Laurence Watson respond to PPL's recent Climate Assessment Report. Summary Following a...
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Facts still matter: FERC saves US energy consumer $1.4b pa by rejecting...
Coal Analyst Note January 2018Summary The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on 8 January that it would reject the Notice of Proposed...
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Summary: Xcel Energy’s 2017 Colorado filing shows the median bid price for wind plus storage was $21/MWh and for solar...
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Submission to BEIS on Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting proposal
Climate risk disclosure Report January 2018Carbon Tracker's submission to the consultation phase of the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy's...
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Comments on the Environmental Audit Committee’s Green Finance inquiry
Climate risk disclosure Report December 2017Carbon Tracker Initiative comments on the Environmental Audit Committee’s Green Finance inquiry We welcome the opportunity...
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Comments on SASB’s Proposed Changes to Provisional Standards
Climate risk disclosure Report December 2017Carbon Tracker's comments on the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board proposed changes to provisional standards. We...
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If you read just one thing this year…… first, it’s December! What took you so long?......second, make it this. Much...
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Headlines Growth of electric vehicles (EVs) in scenarios developed by some oil majors is ten years behind the level expected...
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In this report, we look at how a scenario for the EU28 that is compliant with limiting the rise in global warming to below 2°C...
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A Time Machine for Climate Risk: bringing the future forward with 2˚C...
Climate risk disclosure Blog November 2017See here for a downloadable version of this blog. “Breaking the Tragedy of the Horizon” It has been two years since the...
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What does a 2°C scenario mean for future refining capacity? In this paper, we look at how a scenario for oil demand that is...
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Perry’s proposal to reregulate US power markets – $1.4b pa subsidy...
Coal Analyst Note October 2017The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) announced on September 29 will grant coal and nuclear units operating in organised...
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State of the transition: The roulette wheels of Las Vegas land on green
Energy transition Blog September 2017What have Las Vegas casinos got in common with tackling climate change and transitioning to a low carbon economy? More than you...
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Coal’s market share in the US power mix is being diminished at an unprecedented rate due to fierce competition from cheap gas...
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Explore the report webpage: 2degreeseparation.com This report, produced by Carbon Tracker, Principles for Responsible...
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Does the oil major’s 2017 Energy Perspectives mark new thinking for the company? On June 8th, Statoil published the 2017...
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Industry opposes enhanced climate risk disclosure, concerned it will move...
Climate risk disclosure Blog May 2017Robert Shuwerk responds to industry opposition to the TCFD recommendations. The Financial Stability Board’s task force on...
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Glencore released a report last week ahead of its Annual General Meeting aimed at assessing the long-term implications of climate...
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Cost reductions of India’s solar revolution should serve as a warning to coal investors This week solar PV prices in India...
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Former UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres brings new urgency to the global climate conversation with a campaign to...
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Unexpectedly, the oil and gas love-in that is CERAWeek saw the latest round of climate risk disclosure emerging from the oil...
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Carbon Tracker’s submission to the FSB Task Force on Climate-related...
Climate risk disclosure Report February 2017In response to an enquiry from the G20, the Financial Stability Board produced a seminal report investigating the implications of...
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Expect the Unexpected: The Disruptive Power of Low-carbon Technology
Energy transition Report February 2017This report was produced in partnership between Carbon Tracker and the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London. The...
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Alpha Natural Resources, Peabody Energy Corp., and Arch Coal, Inc.—three of the four largest U.S. coal companies by annual...
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Financial Stability Board talks of climate change in a language investors...
Climate risk disclosure Blog January 2017Carbon Tracker's Rob Schuwerk explains why the FSB's climate risk recommendations are an important step towards helping financial...
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The 12 Days of Carbon Tracker Well…that was different. 2016 has been quite the year of change. A year of political events that...
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State of The Transition, November 2016: Steps forward continue to...
Energy transition Blog December 2016Guest post by Jeremy Leggett, Non-executive chairman of Carbon Tracker The global energy transition remains in...
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China is currently building more coal plants than it needs and in doing so is misallocating capital at an unprecedented...
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Latest IEA Outlook outlines an accelerated low-carbon transition
Energy transition Blog November 2016WEO 2016 also warns of disjointed scenario if energy transition is delayed. Scenarios are not forecasts The scenarios produced...
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Guest post by Kingsmill Bond, new energy analyst at Trusted Sources (research & consultancy) The orthodox view is that...
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Even if oil prices rise in the aftermath of the OPEC agreement on cutting production, the oil industry should be wary of...
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Carbon Tracker’s work on the energy transition has already demonstrated the value in challenging traditional energy model...
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Submission to SEC on Property Disclosures for Mining Registrants
Climate risk disclosure Report September 2016In response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Release No. 33-10098, "Modernization of Property Disclosures for...
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Carbon Tracker’s submission to the US Securities and Exchange...
Climate risk disclosure Report July 2016In response to the SEC's Concept Release on Business and Financial Disclosure, Carbon Tracker submitted comments, identifying...
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Why a 2°C business model is less risky than 'business-as-usual' for oil companies. The business model for many companies in the...
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In January 2016 the US Secretary of the Interior announced a moratorium on new coal leasing on public lands pending completion of...
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No Rhyme or Reason – Unreasonable projections in a world confronting...
Climate risk disclosure Report July 2016In the US, carbon-intensive sectors have made risk factor disclosures related to climate change for years but very little of it...
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Carbon Tracker’s reports and blogs are available in seven different languages: Arabic -...
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U.S. and European oil and gas companies are under increasing pressure from shareholders to stress test their businesses against a...
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In April 2016, the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures published a report on Phase...
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Oil majors could be worth up to $140 billion more by aligning production with climate targets
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Carbon Tracker’s submission to UK Department of BIS consultation:...
Climate risk disclosure Report April 2016In 2013, the European Commission adopted proposals for a Directive amending the Accounting Directive in relation to the reporting...
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A series of recent Forbes articles intend to cast doubt on the relevance of stranded asset risks to investors. Mark Fulton,...
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The flaws in the business models of some of the largest US shale producers are becoming clear. Growing levels of debt are...
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In 2016, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a major opportunity to develop a new industry, an opportunity that became something of...
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Carbon Tracker’s submission to the Parliament of Australia’s Senate...
Climate risk disclosure Report March 2016In February 2016, we were invited to contribute to the Australian Senate Economics References Committee’s inquiry into carbon...
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The recent shift in China’s economy has been one of dramatic speed and scale. The first decade of the 2000s saw China’s...
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By Paul Spedding, Former Global Co-Head of Oil And Gas Research at HSBC and Advisor to Carbon Tracker. First appeared on...
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Full Disclosure: Why Chevron Needs to Stress-Test the Business at...
Climate risk disclosure Report March 2016This paper examines Chevron’s current disclosures in the context of Carbon Tracker’s April 2015 Blueprint, where we...
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Carbon Tracker & Sandbag written evidence on EAC Inquiry on...
Climate risk disclosure Report February 2016UK Environmental Audit Committee inquiry: Sustainability and HM Treasury The cross-departmental Environmental Audit Committee...
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Just because one of Britain's best loved vehicles rolled off the production line for the last time last week doesn't...
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Considerations for reporting and disclosure in a carbon-constrained world
Climate risk disclosure Report January 2016Hot on the heels of a historic climate deal in Paris the Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board,...
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Shelagh Whitley and Mark Fulton President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline last November signalled a landmark...
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Stranded Assets a Response: Myth or Reality? Late last year respected British economist Dieter Helm dismissed the concept of...
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Recommended Strategic Risk Engagement Principles for Fossil Fuel Companies
Climate risk disclosure Report December 2015In 2011, Carbon Tracker asked whether the world’s capital markets were carrying a “carbon bubble”. Further analysis...
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The data is clear – the energy transition is underway, and the direction of travel is away from fossil fuels. But not everyone...
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Carbon Tracker’s submission to HM Treasury consultation on energy...
Climate risk disclosure Report November 2015In late 2015, the U.K.’s economic and finance ministry sought public responses to a consultation concentrated on simplifying...
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Lost in Transition: How the energy sector is missing potential demand...
Energy transition Report October 2015This report is designed to challenge the conventional thinking and linear models which dominate the current scenarios for energy...
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This paper, first presented at the 1st Global Stranded Assets Conference, hosted by the Smith School in Oxford September 2015,...
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Is Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies, really turning its back on fossil fuels? Not only has...
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There has been much discussion of fossil fuel subsidies as both an inefficient use of public tax dollars and a barrier to the...
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“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi I recently attended a...
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First appeared in BusinessGreen Global coal is on the ropes. Prices of thermal coal have collapsed as demand evaporates;...
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This guest post by Paul Gilding, an independent writer, corporate advisor and advocate for action on climate change and...
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Low carbon scenarios do include the potential for gas demand to grow over the next decade. But if we are to stay within a carbon...
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Fossil Fuel companies failing legal duty to report climate risk
Climate risk disclosure Report June 2015Some fossil fuel companies are failing in their legal duty to address climate risk in their reporting, a group of non-profit...
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First appeared in BusinessGreen Will the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris later this year be a...
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Petrobras’ recent launch of a notional $2.5 billion worth of 100-year bonds has been viewed as evidence that investors,...
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In this report we analyse the EU’s largest 5 power generators: Électricité de France (EDF), GDF Suez, Enel, E.ON and RWE, who...
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The Carbon Tracker Initiative’s Submission to the Capital Markets Union...
Climate risk disclosure Report May 2015Carbon Tracker recently submitted comments to the European Commission's ongoing capital markets union (CMU)...
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Rising greenhouse gas emissions are often talked about as a one-time, irreversible natural experiment with the climate...
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First appeared in BusinessGreen Through our pioneering “Carbon Bubble” work we used a simple idea and easy numbers to...
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First appeared in BusinessGreen As the world’s top financiers gather in Paris ahead of International Climate Finance Day on...
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First appeared in BusinessGreen Ahead of the Paris climate talks the burning question for policy makers and investors is how...
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US shale production has prompted increased volatility in the oil markets, as exemplified by the 50% drop in prices during the...
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Carbon Tracker is developing a transition road map for the fossil fuel industry. This will outline the steps we believe that the...
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The steep fall in the price of oil since the middle of last year has brought volatility back to the market with a vengeance,...
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The market for thermal coal is in structural decline in the United States. Squeezed out by an abundance of cheap shale gas and...
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The 2015 Oil Spending Review is in Full Swing With oil prices collapsing to between $50/$60 a barrel (at the...
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Over the past 18 months the Carbon Tracker Initiative has written a number of studies on the economics of the controversial...
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In a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as part of its ongoing review of disclosure, the Carbon Tracker...
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During 2014, following in the footsteps of Shell and ExxonMobil, oil and gas industry association IPIECA published a “fact...
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Carbon Tracker Initiative's Anthony Hobley argues that far from being a disaster for clean tech, low oil prices could aid...
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Carbon Tracker comment on US-China climate change agreement “For Carbon Tracker, today’s announcement of the “joint...
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This Carbon Tracker report shows how rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can...
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Carbon Tracker’s ultimate vision is a climate-secure energy and financial system. This does not mean fossil fuels being...
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Recognising Risk, Perpetuating Uncertainty. A baseline survey of climate...
Climate risk disclosure Report October 2014In partnership with Ceres, CDP and CDSB, Carbon Tracker has assessed the responses from over 80 fossil fuel companies to a...
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Our research on coal consists of a package of detailed analyses of coal supply, demand and financial trends. The accompanying...
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Shell underestimates risk for up to $77 bln of high cost oil projects The Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) and Energy...
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This latest piece of research from Standard & Poors’ coal analysts in collaboration with CTI explores for the first time...
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Since the turn of the century, China has almost single-handedly been driving global thermal coal consumption growth. Changes in...
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This report is a risk analysis which provides a tool for the majority of investors who cannot simply divest, so they can...
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Exxon: Is business as normal the right strategy? Earlier this month, ExxonMobil published a document entitled, “Energy and...
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Carbon Tracker respond to the US Department of State's Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) with our new...
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Carbon content is a key financial element of fossil fuel reserves. In December 2013, Carbon Tracker submitted a letter to the...
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Following on from Carbon Tracker’s Unburnable Carbon 2013 global analysis, we release this report in collaboration with The...
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Carbon Avoidance: Accounting for emissions hidden in reserves
Climate risk disclosure Report October 2013This new research from Carbon Tracker and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants reveals that current financial...
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The fourth in the series of Carbon Tracker's Unburnable Carbon reports, focuses on Brazil - a country with the fascinating...
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This new research from Carbon Tracker and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE calls...
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Carbon Tracker and Standard & Poors have been working together on the implications of carbon constraints for credit ratings...
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This new analysis from the Carbon Tracker Initiative finds that the current coal reserves earmarked for the South African market,...
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This is the original report which pioneered the concept of the 'Carbon Bubble'. This award-winning analysis by Carbon...
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