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Fossil fuel support is rising again in a threat to climate change efforts
Fossil-fuel
subsidies are environmentally harmful, costly, and distortive. After a 3
years downward trend between 2013 and 2016, government support for fossil fuel
production and use has risen...
Tanker Incidents: Who Blinks First?
The recent tanker incidents in
the Gulf of Oman have heightened the potential for a dangerous conflict. Now
that the US has accused Iran of being...
The tension between Iran and the United States
At the beginning of last summer, precisely on May 8,
2018, US President Donald J. Trump carried out one of his old projects, i.e. to
explicitly...
Fossil fuel consumption subsidies bounced back strongly in 2018
Authors: Wataru Matsumura and Zakia
Adam*
Higher average oil prices in 2018 pushed up the value
of global fossil fuel consumption subsidies back up toward levels last...
International action can scale up hydrogen to make it a key part of a clean and secure energy future
The world has an important
opportunity to tap into hydrogen’s vast potential to become a critical part of
a more sustainable and secure energy future, the...
Oil Market Report: 2020 vision
In this Report, we publish our first outlook for 2020.
As we do so, volatility has returned to oil markets with a dramatic sell-off in
late...
Businesses Double Down on Sustainability as Consumers Focus on Costs
While most businesses have intensified their sustainability
efforts, many residential consumers’ actions have stalled as cost and
complexity have slowed commitment to clean-energy solutions, according to
Deloitte’s...
Energy and Geopolitics is Under Attack
Global warming. Climate change. Renewable
energy. Carbon-free societies. All of these terms have gained status, as the
balm to eliminate fossil fuels, which is supposedly causing...
District heating needs flexibility to navigate the energy transition
Heating in buildings is at the core of energy
consumption – space heating and hot water production account for around 70% of
energy consumption in residential...
Demand from Asia is set to power the growth of the global gas industry over the next five years
After another record year, global demand for natural gas is set to keep
growing over the next five years, driven by strong consumption in fast-growing
Asian...