Peak oil and CO2? How Covid-19 may have accelerated the green energy transition

Michael Holder
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DNV GL assesses the short and long-term impacts of the pandemic on the energy transition – and its forecasts are startling

Have CO2 emissions from the global energy system already peaked? The latest analysis from global risk management and energy research firm's DNV GL today certainly suggests so, predicting the devastating...

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