Make China Great Again: Six Ways Trump’s Energy And Climate Policies Work… For China
Mid-way through the two-week negotiation sessions at the UN climate talks in Morocco in November, results of the US pres...
Blog Archives: 2016
Trumped: Ten Impacts On Energy And Climate
On Wednesday, the United States elected a coal-loving, oil and gas-funded climate denier as President. Here are 10 developments ……...
Businesses Must Wake Up From Their Climate Slumber: Trillions Risk Going The Kodak Way
Conventional wisdom has been turned on its head: The UN is leading the fight against climate change while the private sector is hiding, ducking and ……...
The Business Sector Is The Deer Caught In The Paris Agreement Headlights
Paris climate agreement ratification exposes how the private sector is lagging in fight against climate change....
Time For the Green Climate to Grow Up Fast. Or It Will Die Slow.
An executive search firm recently contacted me to hear my thoughts on recruiting a new boss for the UN’s South Korea-based Green Climate Fund, or GCF....
Keeping The Lights on in Southeast Asia
Growing up in the North of England, I saw with my own eyes the UK experiencing a major energy transition over the last few decades, emerging from a state monopoly system where the ...
It’s Time to Get Rid of All the Green Crap in Politics
Britain’s post-Brexit government has scrapped the Department of Energy and Climate Change, or DECC. Good riddance: If we’re serious about fighting climate change, we shouldn’...
Never mind a Brexit recession, Leave voters don’t believe in climate change
Leave voters’ disregard for the facts extends far beyond the NHS and the economy....
To Fight Climate Change, We Must Not Forget How Vital It Is to Reduce Methane Emissions from Coal Mines
By David Creedy, Sindicatum Sustainable Resources; Clark Talkington, Advanced Resources International; and Ray Pilcher, Raven Ridge Resources. Coal will continue to be an essential...
EU Referendum: Leave Voters Twice as Likely to Disbelieve Facts and Science
Poll finds that Leave voters disproportionally deny mainstream science. But without a fact-based debate, the referendum could be decided on the wrong grounds....
What Do Saudi Arabia and Ikea Have in Common? They Both Want to Go Solar
Just as Ikea has started stocking solar panels in its UK stores, Saudi Arabia has announced a modest 9.5 gigawatt renewable energy target, part of its 2030 Vision initiative to mov...
Memo to the Financial Markets: Cheap Oil is Great
Exhibitionist more than ever, Wall Street is loudly proclaiming, principally through a painful exercise of financial self-flagellation, that falling oil prices are bad news for the...
2016: The Year the Oil Era Enters Terminal Decline
2015 was a landmark year for climate action. Its many highlights were topped by a Paris agreement where 195 countries set themselves on a low-carbon path via economy-wide plans sur...