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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
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Decline and Fall: The Size & Vulnerability of the...
Energy transition
04 June 2020
How to Retire Early: Making accelerated coal phaseout...
Coal
30 June 2020
Absolute Impact: Why oil majors’ climate...
Oil
24 June 2020
It’s Closing Time: The Huge Bill to Abandon...
Oil
18 June 2020
Oil
Analyst Note
24 June 2020
Absolute Impact: Why oil majors’ climate ambitions fall short of Paris limits
There is growing recognition that drastic changes to oil and gas consumption are required to meet the finite limits of a global carbon...
Power
Blog
19 June 2020
A Tale of Two Investors: A Carbon Tracker Video
The Earth's temperatures continue to rise causing catastrophic climate change. The risks of climate change are having major impacts on...
Oil
Analyst Note
15 June 2020
The Impair State: The Paris Agreement starts to impact oil & gas accounting
The oil industry’s financial statements reflect climate change conflict Oil and gas companies have never been under more pressure on...
Gas
Blog
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...
Gas
Blog
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...
Gas
Blog
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
Decline and Fall: The Size & Vulnerability of the Fossil Fuel System
We carry out scenario analysis to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and demand will...
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How to Retire Early: Making accelerated coal phaseout feasible and just
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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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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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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COVID-19 continues to shake the global economy, and energy markets are no exception. Oil in particular finds itself caught...
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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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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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The cost of failing to anticipate an Inevitable Policy Response to climate change In this report, we look at the...
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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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Carbon Tracker's mission is to align investors strategies to climate change action. We recognise that there is...
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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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The following piece originally was posted to Oilprice.com on March 3, 2019. It is reprinted with permission. Investors are...
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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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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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Why carbon intensity ambitions are welcome, but strict limits on future project sanction remain the route to Paris...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Explore the report webpage: 2degreeseparation.com This report, produced by Carbon Tracker, Principles for Responsible...
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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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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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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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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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Carbon Tracker’s reports and blogs are available in seven different languages: Arabic...
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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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Stranded Assets a Response: Myth or Reality? Late last year respected British economist Dieter Helm dismissed the concept of...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is the original report which pioneered the concept of the 'Carbon Bubble'. This award-winning analysis by Carbon...
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