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Driving with the brakes on: Fewer than one in five transport companies have credible climate plans
Driving with the brakes on: Fewer than one in five transport companies have credible climate plans

Transition Pathway Initiative warns of widespread stranded asset risk as transport sector struggles to fall into line with Paris Agreement goals

  • Transport
  • 09 December 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
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
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
'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
Covid-19 will lead to further stranded assets in the EU
Covid-19 will lead to further stranded assets in the EU

With airlines looking at an annus horribilis in 2020, planes could follow coal plants as Europe's next stranded asset, writes Vlerick Business School's Professor David Veredas

  • BusinessGreen
  • 22 May 2020
BNP Paribas accelerates 'complete coal exit' plan
BNP Paribas accelerates 'complete coal exit' plan

Banking giant pulls forward target to end the use of coal by its electricity-producing customers to the end of 2030

  • Investment
  • 12 May 2020
'Clear and implementable': Barclays aims to become net zero bank by 2050
'Clear and implementable': Barclays aims to become net zero bank by 2050

British bank promises to align all financing activities with Paris Agreement and target at least £100bn green financing by 2030

  • Investment
  • 30 March 2020
'Time to pull the plug': Is pressure on coal-investing banks starting to deliver results?
'Time to pull the plug': Is pressure on coal-investing banks starting to deliver results?

High street banks such as Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered are facing growing pressure from activists, shareholders and potentially regulators over their links to to coal and potential stranded asset risk

  • Investment
  • 02 March 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
IEA: Oil and gas companies can't ignore the climate crisis
IEA: Oil and gas companies can't ignore the climate crisis

Fossil fuel firms must develop a clear strategy for managing the low carbon transition, experts are set to warn attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos

  • Energy
  • 20 January 2020
As the climate crisis grows, Big Oil finds itself over a barrel
As the climate crisis grows, Big Oil finds itself over a barrel

The sector is facing strong headwinds from activists, investors and governments, pitting the companies' relentless growth ambitions against the worsening signs of climate change

  • Climate change
  • 13 December 2019
European Investment Bank: 'We will stop financing fossil fuels'
European Investment Bank: 'We will stop financing fossil fuels'

Multilateral bank says world's 'most ambitious climate investment strategy' will unlock €1tr of climate action and environmental sustainable investment through to 2030

  • Investment
  • 15 November 2019
Revealed: US asset management giants slammed as pro-climate proxy votes worst performers
Revealed: US asset management giants slammed as pro-climate proxy votes worst performers

Capital Group, T.Rowe Price and BlackRock register worst records, according to new analysis

  • Investment
  • 04 November 2019
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
Tackling the 'supertanker': Are investors starting to get twitchy over worsening climate risk profiles?
Tackling the 'supertanker': Are investors starting to get twitchy over worsening climate risk profiles?

Top financiers urge companies to align lobbying efforts with Paris Agreement, as markets struggle to price in climate risk

  • Investment
  • 18 September 2019
Plan A + B failed. What next for big oil?
Plan A + B failed. What next for big oil?

As predictions of peak oil demand become more prevalent and environmental protests more vocal, Ed King wonders where the oil industry goes next

  • Infrastructure
  • 18 September 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
Are plastics primed to be the next carbon bubble victim?
Are plastics primed to be the next carbon bubble victim?

Plastic could become the new pariah in some investment circles, as analysts warn investors off firms with prolific single-use plastic production and use

  • Technology
  • 29 August 2019
 City urged to attach 'climate risk' reports to pensions
City urged to attach 'climate risk' reports to pensions

MPs want mandatory climate reporting within three years to avoid risk to investments

  • Investment
  • 12 August 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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