Carbon Tracker
Stranded assets: Report warns US oil majors are lagging European rivals in clean energy transition
Latest study from Carbon Tracker shows that while US firms are particularly exposed, all oil and gas firms would face massive stranded asset risk in the event of a successful energy transition
Survey: Businesses place higher importance on sustainability after Covid-19
Carbon Trust's second annual survey on corporate attitudes towards sustainability reveals surge in engagement with climate action
How the oil industry's bet on plastics risks $400bn in stranded assets
Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns
Study: Consumer carbon emissions have plummeted through 2020 - and some savings could continue
Lockdown caused emissions to plummet across several consumer categories, as survey suggests some people are now keen to embrace behaviour changes that have led to lower emissions
Carbon Tracker: Oil and gas giants take $87bn hit on assets in nine months
BP, Shell and Total have all written down value of their assets by billions in the second quarter of 2020, but Exxon, Equinor and ConocoPhillips failed to report any significant material impairments
'Stranded': Total writes down $8bn of fossil fuel assets
French oil giant concedes oil sands projects are becoming too expensive and warns that 'beyond 2030' peak oil demand beckons
Oil and gas industry unveils new carbon intensity targets
Oil and Gas Climate Initiative hails 'further step in support of the Paris Agreement' as national oil majors back new emissions goals
'Fundamental change': How write downs and bankruptcies are fuelling stranded asset fears
Shell and BP are writing down assets while a raft of US fracking firms are entering bankruptcy protection – change is coming to the fossil fuel industry faster than anyone expected
'Clock is ticking': Analysts warn that following BP decision, oil sector should brace for more write-downs
Carbon Tracker analysis details how four European oil majors have now taken hits to their asset valuation as net zero transition gathers pace
'Supporting stranding': UK Export Finance accused of funding oil projects in defiance of Paris Agreement goals
New analysis from Carbon Tracker warns UK government financing for upstream oil and gas projects in Brazil and Ghana is 'failing the Paris test'
'Decline and fall': Transition away from fossil fuel economy could lead to plummeting valuations for high carbon assets
Carbon Tracker warns 'there is far more risk inherent in the fossil fuel system than is conventionally priced into financial markets' and urges investors to step up efforts to engineer a more orderly transition to clean technologies
A fork in the road?
Michael Holder argues the direction of the recovery is all to play for, but the reinvigorated pursuit of net zero emissions has economic logic on its side
'Good money after bad': Why new coal power would be a risky post-Covid-19 investment
Almost half of all global coal plants are already set to run at a loss in 2020, warns think tank Carbon Tracker
'We will be prepared to part company': Could BP's exit from three major oil and gas trade bodies set a new industry standard?
Decision to quit three US trade bodies stems from differences over carbon pricing policies and methane regulation, as oil giant looks to build on net zero plans
Maddie's farewell: The best of times, the worst of times
In her final column, Maddie Cuff charts the course of the business revolution that provides the main source of hope for the climate crisis
Carbon Tracker: Climate policy action could halve value of new oil projects
Influential think tank argues governments could soon be forced into an abrupt net zero policy shift that would threaten value of oil assets
BlackRock goes green? Investment giant joins Climate Action 100+
Move comes just a month after the firm was accused of being 'full of greenwash' by former US Vice President Al Gore
Apocoalypse Now? European energy industry should prepare for 2030 complete coal phase-out, study warns
Carbon Tracker study suggests governments should provide financial support to utilities to transition to renewable energy, as coal plants continue to rack up losses
'Gradual or rapid': How fast is the low carbon transition likely to be?
World Economic Forum report considers whether major shift away from fossil fuels is likely within the next decade, or will take much longer than green business hope
Climate risk posed by oil, gas and coal leaves energy investors on shaky ground
Analysis by both Carbon Tracker and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis highlight the growing threat posed to investors by their exposure to high-carbon business models
Google and Carbon Tracker to use AI to track emissions from world's power plants
A $1.7m Google grant will see satellite imagery used to track emissions from the world's largest power plants
Fossil fuel giants failing to disclose investor risk, study warns
Latest Carbon Tracker report provides fresh evidence energy sector is exposed to billions of dollars of transition risk as the world pivots to a low carbon economy
Growth at all costs: How oil executive pay pushes fossil fuel exploration
Carbon Tracker analysis reveals how executive pay packages at oil and gas companies often remain performance-linked to growing production and volumes
Mark Lewis joins BNP Paribas Asset Management as head of climate change investment research
Leading analyst joins banking giant, as it continues to beef up climate change research capabilities