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Zoom in on Net Zero - with Carbon Tracker's Mark Campanale
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Carbon Tracker's Mark Campanale

VIDEO: joins BusinessGreen editor James Murray to discuss the carbon bubble, divestment and net zero investing

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  • 20 January 2021
Scaling up sustainable finance: How can investors accelerate the net zero transition?
Scaling up sustainable finance: How can investors accelerate the net zero transition?

As the sustainable finance sector booms, asset managers and owners are under increasing pressure to use their financial clout to steer a greener future

  • Investment
  • 15 January 2021
UK climate advisers urge PM to approve 'bold as possible' 2030 target
UK climate advisers urge PM to approve 'bold as possible' 2030 target

Climate Change Committee recommends UK set target to cut emissions by 'at least' 68 per cent from 1990 levels over next decade

  • Policy
  • 03 December 2020
Could emerging market EV boom herald the 'end of the oil era'?
Could emerging market EV boom herald the 'end of the oil era'?

Latest Carbon Tracker report explores how surging demand for EVs in China and India are set to make a massive dent in forecast oil demand throughout the 2020s

  • Transport
  • 20 November 2020
Stranded assets: Report warns US oil majors are lagging European rivals in clean energy transition
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

  • Energy
  • 09 October 2020
Survey: Businesses place higher importance on sustainability after Covid-19
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

  • Management
  • 09 October 2020
How the oil industry's bet on plastics risks $400bn in stranded assets
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

  • Energy
  • 04 September 2020
Study: Consumer carbon emissions have plummeted through 2020 - and some savings could continue
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

  • Supply chain
  • 26 August 2020
Carbon Tracker: Oil and gas giants take $87bn hit on assets in nine months
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

  • Risk
  • 17 August 2020
'Stranded': Total writes down $8bn of fossil fuel assets
'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

  • Energy
  • 30 July 2020
Oil and gas industry unveils new carbon intensity targets
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

  • Energy
  • 16 July 2020
'Fundamental change': How write downs and bankruptcies are fuelling stranded asset fears
'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

  • Energy
  • 03 July 2020
'Clock is ticking': Analysts warn that following BP decision, oil sector should brace for more write-downs
'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

  • Risk
  • 16 June 2020
'Supporting stranding': UK Export Finance accused of funding oil projects in defiance of Paris Agreement goals
'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'

  • Infrastructure
  • 12 June 2020
'Decline and fall': Transition away from fossil fuel economy could lead to plummeting valuations for high carbon assets
'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

  • Investment
  • 04 June 2020
A fork in the road?
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

  • Policy
  • 14 April 2020
'Good money after bad': Why new coal power would be a risky post-Covid-19 investment
'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

  • Energy
  • 08 April 2020
'We will be prepared to part company': Could BP's exit from three major oil and gas trade bodies set a new industry standard?
'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

  • Infrastructure
  • 27 February 2020
Maddie's farewell: The best of times, the worst of times
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

  • Policy
  • 31 January 2020
Carbon Tracker: Climate policy action could halve value of new oil projects
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

  • Investment
  • 31 January 2020
BlackRock goes green? Investment giant joins Climate Action 100+
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

  • Investment
  • 10 January 2020
Apocoalypse Now? European energy industry should prepare for 2030 complete coal phase-out, study warns
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

  • Energy
  • 24 October 2019
'Gradual or rapid': How fast is the low carbon transition likely to be?
'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

  • Investment
  • 16 September 2019
Climate risk posed by oil, gas and coal leaves energy investors on shaky ground
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

  • Investment
  • 02 August 2019
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