Archive

  • Delicious and abundant: yes, we're talking about voluntary carbon markets

    26 August 2021

    Offsets play an important transitional role in neutralizing emissions that are more difficult to abate, argues Vikram Widge

  • BHP criticised as confirms oil and gas exit with Woodside deal

    17 August 2021

    Pressure has been building on BHP to exit its fossil fuel assets, but its proposed deal to shift its oil and gas assets to Woodside has been criticised - and considered 'disastrous' for Woodside shareholders and the environment. Ahren Lester reports

  • The 'zero' challenge: offsetting

    11 August 2021

    Despite the weaknesses of carbon offsets, they remain a necessary tool for some investors as they plan for net zero emissions, write Chris Varco and Simon Hallett

  • A Delphic moment in climate risk

    05 August 2021

    Only by measuring the downside can we truly know our climate selves, writes Woody Bradford

  • Governing voluntary carbon markets

    27 July 2021

    Carbon markets are the thin edge of a deep wedge that will see explosive innovation in advancing a broad range of nature-linked offset markets, argues Simon Zadek

  • China ETS trading gets off to strong start

    20 July 2021

    Market excitement and allowance hoarding supported strong carbon prices during the early trading sessions of the nationwide China carbon market - but more is needed for this key but much-delayed climate policy to deliver on its aim, Refinitiv carbon lead analyst Yan Qin tells Ahren Lester

  • Will the real REDD+ step forward

    20 May 2021

    Paris Agreement-approved rainforest conservation carbon credits will rescue net-zero carbon goals, argues Kevin Conrad

  • IEA net-zero roadmap 'turning point' for energy sector ahead of COP26

    18 May 2021

    After years of being judged a climate modelling laggard, the IEA has published a 'landmark' net-zero emissions roadmap which campaigners say raises the stakes for governments and companies ahead of the COP26 summit. Ahren Lester reports

  • Union Investment working on 'transition' scores for companies

    06 May 2021

    The German asset manager is preparing to increase its scrutiny of companies' transition strategies, Henrik Pontzen tells Peter Cripps

  • The soufflé of common sense on climate change

    28 April 2021

    With science, policy and capital coming together to help combat warming, we must all be early adoptors, argues Paula DiPerna