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The Impair State: The Paris Agreement starts to impact...

The Future’s Not in Plastics: Why plastics demand...

How The Mighty Are Fallen – How Chasing Growth...

How to waste over half a trillion dollars: The...

2020 at Carbon Tracker
Carbon Tracker's Christmas Cracker had a makeover in 2020. This infographic originally went out in our December newsletter. Sign up...
Vistra takes an important step in the clean energy transition, but still has a long journey ahead
The Texas-based company Vistra recently announced that they will close six coal power plants and cut their coal generating capacity from...
Measuring and managing energy transition risk in the Philippines
As part of a UK government-funded project to support the Philippines power sector stakeholders navigate the shifts, risks and opportunities...
Annual Review 2019
Click here to view Carbon Tracker's Annual Review 2019 In 2019 our objective was to accelerate the energy transition by focussing on the...
How to Retire Early: Making accelerated coal phaseout feasible and just
Although coal has long been viewed as the cheapest way to power the global economy, this is no longer the case. New renewable energy is...
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...Popular Reads
The Impair State: The Paris Agreement starts to impact oil & gas accounting
We carry out scenario analysis to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and demand will...
Read MoreThe Future’s Not in Plastics: Why plastics demand won’t rescue the oil sector
We carry out scenario analysis to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and demand will...
Read MoreKorea needs to phase-out unabated gas by 2050 in a Paris-aligned scenario or potentially risk $60 billion in stranded assets As...
Read MoreBuilding and operating coal is becoming a political decision that increasingly conflicts with underlying economic...
Read MoreCOVID-19 is crippling economies and creating turmoil in financial markets. This note gives our outlook for coal generation in...
Read MoreThe piece originally was posted to the World Economic Forum website on March 18, 2020. The impact of China's previous...
Read MoreCoal developers risk wasting more than $600 billion because it is already cheaper to generate electricity from new renewables...
Read MoreAccording to Carbon Tracker analysis, Indonesia has 15 coal-fired plants (6.4 GW) aged 20 years and older. The decision to...
Read MoreThe purpose of this note is to: Address RWE’s response to our recent report Apocoalypse Now, by acknowledging that, per...
Read MoreCoal power is losing its economic footing. As detailed in Figure 1, according to Carbon Tracker analysis, which is based on...
Read MoreSSE 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...
Read MoreIberdrola 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...
Read MoreThe energy complex has EU coal generators in a chokehold. Are policymakers and investors prepared for what comes next? In this...
Read MoreCarbon Tracker's mission is to align investors strategies to climate change action. We recognise that there is...
Read MoreThe economic viability of new and existing coal in Japan could be severely undermined by cheap renewables and, without policy...
Read MoreLast week Carbon Tracker’s power & utilities team was in Manila to attend the launch of a UK government-funded project to...
Read MoreClimate Action 100+ power utility profiles for mainstream investors to align with Paris and manage energy transition...
Read MoreVietnam’s low-cost renewables revolution and its implications for coal power investments Key findings: ...
Read MoreThe UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) has reported on its recommended targets for the UK to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions...
Read MoreThis interactive portal and accompanying report track the economic and financial risks of coal power at the asset-level...
Read MoreEconomic 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...
Read MoreNowhere 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...
Read MoreThe asset economics and financial implications of Energa’s and Enea’s proposed new Ostrołęka coal power plant C In this...
Read MoreIf you read just one thing this year…… first, it’s December! What took you so long?......second, make it this. Much...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreCoal’s market share in the US power mix is being diminished at an unprecedented rate due to fierce competition from cheap gas...
Read MoreChina is currently building more coal plants than it needs and in doing so is misallocating capital at an unprecedented...
Read MoreCarbon Tracker’s work on the energy transition has already demonstrated the value in challenging traditional energy model...
Read MoreIn 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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