True to their history as the first company to apply seriously the ideas of scenario planning, oil major Shell has released two scenarios for the future development of energy markets. The two scenarios are:
“In the Scramble scenario, nations rush to secure energy resources for themselves, fearing that energy security is a zero-sum game, [...]
Perhaps a cynic would expect the CEO of a telecommunications operator to believe that increased use of telecoms for teleworking and conference calling can reduce carbon emissions, as Sol Trujillo of Telstra in Australia has argued. But even naked self-interest is good, if it helps us avoid catastrophic climate change.
The Telstra [...]
Global shipping traffic may generate nearly three times more carbon emissions than previously believed, according to a UN report seen by the UK Guardian.
“It calculates that annual emissions from the world’s merchant fleet have already reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO², or nearly 4.5% of all global emissions of the main greenhouse gas.
The report suggests that [...]
As mentioned earlier, British environmental campaigner and journalist, George Monbiot, has argued that producing sustainable biofuels without adding to net carbon emissions is not possible. He argues for a reduction in the world’s consumption of oil for transport, claiming that:
“All these convoluted solutions are designed to avoid a simpler one: reducing the [...]
New Values will hold another of its master classes in carbon emissions trading, in Amsterdam this Thursday.
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