The Net Zero Transition: It's bigger than you think

James Murray
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The latest report from the IEA on the booming global electric vehicle market further underscores how rapidly the global economy - and future fossil fuel demand - is being transformed

One of the most underappreciated aspects of the global net zero transition is the sheer scale of the thing. Even those who work on it daily can struggle to get their head round quite how big an undertaking...

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