Putting the genie back
As I have posted in recent weeks, my complete book on climate change is now out, under the title ‘Putting the Genie Back: Solving the […]
View ArticleCOP23: Ramping up ambition
In a timely reminder for the national negotiators now starting their work in Bonn (dubbed ‘Fiji on the Rhine’ given the Presidency) at COP23, PwC […]
View ArticleCrossing the Antarctic Circle
Visiting Antarctica is something most travellers there only ever do once, but over the last two weeks I have had the privilege of visiting the […]
View ArticleMeeting the goals of the Paris Agreement
Over the past few months I have been deeply involved with my colleagues in the Shell Scenario team preparing a new scenario that illustrates a […]
View ArticleAchieving the balance
The Paris Agreement calls for a “balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of the […]
View ArticleHas climate change run its course??
A curious article appeared in the Wall Street Journal recently, written by Steven Hayward from the University of California, Berkeley, arguing that the climate change […]
View ArticleClimate Risks and ‘Hothouse Earth’
A new paper by researchers from a number of institutions, but including the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, has made […]
View ArticleTesting the limits of transition
Over the past two years, on a timetable similar to that of the IPCC 1.5°C report, the Shell scenario team has been working towards the […]
View ArticleEncouraging CCS Deployment
Recently I attended a workshop hosted by KAPSARC on the potential for a dedicated mechanism to spur the deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Technology […]
View ArticleIs 1.5°C closer than we think?
As the climate issue progresses and the seemingly endless noise linked with ‘crisis’ and ‘emergency’ risks desensitizing many to the reality of the issue, clear […]
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Carbon budgets, CCS and the energy transition
One of the key talking points of the recent Climate Summit in New York was the carbon budget available for a transition that could limit surface temperature warming to 1.5°C. In her speech to the UN,...
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The short term climate ambition
On Saturday 10th October TED hosted a series of online climate change talks by global influencers and leaders, along with various panels where participants could challenge and question business...
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Growing pressures
The task of getting to net-zero emissions by 2050 has become the rallying cry behind COP 26 and considerable diplomatic effort is now being applied to the push to get countries to sign up to such an...
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Pathways to 1.5°C
In 2018 when the IPCC released their Special Report on 1.5°C, they presented four archetype scenarios to help readers understand that there were fundamentally different approaches to limit long term...
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Are we now range bound on temperature?
In my last post I discussed the recent IEA 1.5°C Scenario that sets out what is required to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and manage the transition within a carbon budget of 500 Gt CO2. The IEA...
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The simple climate maths the IPCC didn’t fully explain
When I first started delving into the issue of climate change about 20 years ago, the clarion call of the day was to reduce emissions by 50% by 2050. Today, as we all know, the call is for net-zero...
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The last chance COP? Some more carbon budget maths!
With world leaders and thousands of delegates and observers meeting in Glasgow for COP26, there is much talk of this being the last chance to save 1.5°C. It wouldn’t be the first time a COP has been...
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Back to Antarctica
As those familiar with this blog may recall, I have been fortunate to visit the Antarctic Peninsula on more than one occasion. These visits have been part of a long standing relationship between Shell...
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Growing pressures
The task of getting to net-zero emissions by 2050 has become the rallying cry behind COP 26 and considerable diplomatic effort is now being applied to the push to get countries to sign up to such an...
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Pathways to 1.5°C
In 2018 when the IPCC released their Special Report on 1.5°C, they presented four archetype scenarios to help readers understand that there were fundamentally different approaches to limit long term...
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