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We carry out scenario analysis to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and demand will impact the future of fossil fuel-exposed companies and projects. This analysis helps the investment community better understand the financial implications of tackling climate change
Popular Reports
How to waste over half a trillion dollars: The...
Coal
12 March 2020
2020 Vision: why you should see the fossil fuel peak...
Energy transition
10 September 2018
Handbrake Turn
Oil
31 January 2020
Fanning the Flames: How executives continue to be...
Oil
13 March 2020
Oil
Report
23 October 2019
Carbon Tracker Annual Review 2018-2019
Carbon Tracker's mission is to align investors strategies to climate change action. We recognise that there is a limited...
Energy transition
Report
12 September 2019
The Speed of the Energy Transition
Gradual or Rapid Energy Transition: What path are we on? The energy industry is complex, and understanding the major trends changing the...
Energy transition
Blog
11 September 2019
The Energy Transition Fork in the Road
The Amazon is burning, Greenland is melting, the US is rolling back environmental protections, and the energy sector consensus is that we...
Energy transition
Analyst Note
05 September 2019
The Trillion Dollar Energy Windfall
Falling renewable costs and intermittency solutions drive a tipping point for the Inevitable Policy Response The Inevitable Policy...
Energy transition
Blog
30 July 2019
Event Blog – Climate Risk & The Capital Domino Effect
During the inaugural London Climate Action Week - Carbon Tracker co-hosted the Climate Risk and the Capital Domino Effect event held at...
Energy transition
Analyst Note
30 April 2019
The Decline Rate Delusion
The argument is often made that oil reserves have high natural decline rates which necessitate the continuous investment in and opening up...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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2020 Vision: why you should see the fossil fuel peak coming
We carry out scenario analysis to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and demand will...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Former UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres brings new urgency to the global climate conversation with a campaign to...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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This guest post by Paul Gilding, an independent writer, corporate advisor and advocate for action on climate change and...
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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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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 Ahead of the Paris climate talks the burning question for policy makers and investors is how...
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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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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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