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We carry out scenario analysis and research 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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Petrochemical Imbalance: Why chemicals are...
Some of the largest oil and gas companies are pivoting towards petrochemicals as they reckon with the fact that a decline in transport fuel...Absolute Impact 2024: Oil and gas companies’ emissions targets are not Paris-aligned – with methane a major blind spot
Analysis of oil and gas corporate emissions targets reveals whether targets may be potentially aligned with the goals of the Paris...Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Majors: Reconciling Different Estimates
There has been great interest in recent years in reducing methane emissions as part of efforts to limit climate change. Public and private...PetroStates of Decline: oil and gas producers face growing fiscal risks as the energy transition unfolds
Transition risks for petrostates are higher than ever This report, an update of our 2021 Beyond Petrostates report, finds that...Absolute Impact 2023: Progress on oil and gas emissions targets has stalled
Carbon Tracker is pleased to launch the 4th edition of our Absolute Impact series, in which we assess and rank the climate goals of some of...Missed Pitch
Many leading asset managers’ investment practices deviate from climate positioning. As awareness of the climate crisis increasingly...Popular Reads
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Bridging the gap between the UK’s CCUS targets and reality
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Read MoreIn September 2020, the People’s Republic of China announced targets of peaking economy-wide carbon emissions before 2030 and...
Read MoreRecent extreme price spikes for the GB power market have triggered key discussions over whether the time has come for a shift in...
Read MoreCrude Intentions: How oil and gas executives are still rewarded to chase...
Oil & Gas Analyst Note November 2022The energy transition is fundamentally shifting the way oil and gas companies operate; as demand falls for fossil fuels,...
Read MoreColorado’s new financial assurance rules will help mitigate orphan well risk, but the benefits are blunted by substantial...
Read MoreWhen oil companies defer saving for asset retirement obligations (AROs), the liabilities accumulate. Meanwhile production, and...
Read MoreOil and gas companies are still failing to commit to the absolute emissions reductions necessary to link their businesses to the...
Read MorePoland is approaching a key point in determining the future direction of its power system and the technologies that it wishes to...
Read MoreFirms can avoid wasting $500bn with managed approach to transition in Inevitable Policy Response scenario even if oil demand...
Read MoreFinancial assurance requirements are universally considered to be too low to pay for plugging and abandoning wells. An inventory...
Read MoreOil and gas companies are increasingly announcing new climate goals as they seek to maintain a social licence to...
Read MoreA cost-optimized analysis for a renewables investment schedule for South Korea shows that a more ambitious rollout of renewable...
Read MoreThe value of share offerings in fossil fuel producing and related companies dropped by $123 billion in the last decade,...
Read MoreGroundhog Pay: How executive incentives trap companies in a loop of fossil...
Oil & Gas Analyst Note December 2020The energy transition will require oil and gas companies to fundamentally change the way they do business. Groundhog Pay...
Read MoreBetween 2014 and the end of 2019, ExxonMobil 's return to shareholders was negative 10%. In September 2014, Carbon Tracker...
Read MoreCarbon Tracker's modelling shows no new oil sands are needed in a low carbon world. Prospective pipelines and projects represent...
Read MoreThere is growing recognition that drastic changes to oil and gas consumption are required to meet the finite limits of a global...
Read MoreThe Impair State: The Paris Agreement starts to impact oil & gas...
Oil & Gas Analyst Note June 2020The oil industry’s financial statements reflect climate change conflict Oil and gas companies have never been under more...
Read MoreFanning the Flames: How executives continue to be rewarded to produce more...
Analyst Note March 2020Company executives pay practice doesn’t yet live up to climate ambition, with the gap between stated ambition and demonstrable...
Read MoreCarbon Tracker’s fundamental insight is that the oil and gas industry’s growth plans do not fit in a low carbon world. As...
Read MoreIn this report, we look at the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR), which models the potential impacts of delayed tough...
Read MoreWhy carbon intensity ambitions are welcome, but strict limits on future project sanction remain the route to Paris...
Read MoreEV Oil Demand Displacement Interactive Tool This report and accompanying interactive tool look exclusively at...
Read MoreHeadlines Growth of electric vehicles (EVs) in scenarios developed by some oil majors is ten years behind the level expected...
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