By Michael Waldron, Head of Investment Team, and Yoko Nobuoka, Energy Investment Analyst. This article was published by the International Energy Agency on September 18, 2019. Financial professionals from around the world gathered in Paris last week [Read more]
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Sept. 12, 2019. The oil market focus recently has been on demand as growth weakens amidst uncertainty around the global economy, and particularly trade. In [Read more]
By Cedric Smith This article was published by Pembina Institute on Aug. 30, 2019. Trucking is a major source of Canada’s carbon pollution – freight transportation accounts for 10.5 per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas [Read more]
By Glen Hodgson This article was posted by the C.D. Howe Institute on Aug. 23, 2019. Remember the learned chatter about an imminent limit to global oil supply? It’s now beyond obvious that “peak oil” [Read more]
By Chiara Delmastro and John Dulac This article was published by the International Energy Agency on July 23, 2019. Heatwaves this summer that have left many Europeans sweltering highlight the growing demand for air conditioning in a warming [Read more]
By Andrew Parkin This article was published by Environics Institute on July 16, 2019. The issue of climate change, and how best to address it, is one that activates a number of society’s underlying fault [Read more]
By Jason Dion This article was published by Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission on July 17, 2019. The challenge of policy uncertainty I recently discussed the Ontario government’s 2018 repeal of cap-and-trade with an executive from a large multinational [Read more]
This article was published by the Pembina Institute on July 16, 2019. By Bora Plumtre As Canadians endure a summer of historic flooding and wildfires, the effects of climate change have never been more keenly [Read more]
By Miguel Cárdenas Rodríguez, Ivan Haščič, and Nick Johnstone This article was published by the International Energy Agency on July 11, 2019 One of the key measures of innovation in climate change mitigation is showing worrying [Read more]
By Luca Lo Re This article was published by the International Energy Agency on July 5, 2019. The world’s climate negotiators recently concluded two weeks of discussions about the next steps for the landmark 2015 [Read more]
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on July 5, 2019. By George Kamiya Of all the potential implications of blockchain for the energy sector, the energy use of cryptocurrencies – and bitcoin [Read more]
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on July 1, 2019. One of the enduring legacies of women’s traditional exclusion from the energy sector is the continued disadvantage women and girls face in [Read more]
Rachel Notley’s Climate Leadership Plan committed Alberta to reduce methane emissions by 45 per cent by 2025. Will the new Jason Kenney government follow through on that commitment? This is a tough file, with plenty [Read more]
By Ed Whittingham This article was published by the Globe and Mail on June 18, 2019. I’m an Alberta environmentalist who has worked the past 15 years to promote responsible development of Canada’s oil and [Read more]
By Ed Hirs China’s initiative to increase 2019 capital investment in oil exploration by 20%, in order to boost production in two old oilfields signals a new strategic direction. The goal is to increase domestic [Read more]
By Joe Vipond and Kim Perrotta This article was published by the Edmonton Journal on June 7, 2019. Premier Jason Kenney was very proud of his government’s decision to cut the carbon tax last week [Read more]
By Adam Baylin-Stern, Energy analyst; Asbjørn Hegelund, Energy analyst; and Andreas Schröder, Energy modeller. This article was published by the International Energy Agency on May 29, 2019. In WEO 2018 we introduced the Future is Electric Scenario to test what [Read more]
In Part 1, Eric Denhoff explained how the Alberta industrial emitters carbon tax, called the Carbon Competitiveness Incentive Regulation (CCIR), worked. Some emitters felt the CCIR imposed an unfair burden and the government agreed to [Read more]
By Eric Denhoff Public opinion polling shows that Canadians, especially Albertans, don’t like carbon pricing. Call it a carbon tax or a carbon levy, Canadians prefer technology subsidies and regulations to pricing greenhouse gas emissions, [Read more]
By Vincent Morales, Binnu Jeyakumar This article was published by the Pembina Institute on May 24, 2019. As renewables have become cheaper than conventional generation, there have been fundamental shifts in the economics of electricity generation, while [Read more]
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