Extensive analyses to deep dive into the most pressing issues.

Moving South Africa's coal-dominated economy onto a greener footing will require at least $250 billion over the next three decades, a report released on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum said on Thursday.

Reuters

South Africa needs $250 bln over three decades for clean energy transition

The past two years of the global pandemic profoundly impacted our societies and economies. The COVID crisis heightened the need for multilateralism to tackle global challenges.  

World Bank

Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition report 2021-2022

The Exhaustive Study for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Market report covers the market landscape and its growth prospects over the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.

Digital Journal 

Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Market 2022 

A new report reveals five actions that leaders can take to contribute to economic development, advance global security and sustainability, and make space a safe and globally accessible domain.

McKinsey & Company

The role of space in driving sustainability, security, and development on Earth

Geneva, 18 May 2022 (WMO) - Four key climate change indicators – greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification – set new records in 2021. This is yet another clear sign that human activities are causing planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean, and in the atmosphere, with harmful and long-lasting ramifications for sustainable development and ecosystems, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).



World Meteorological Organization

Four key climate change indicators break records in 2021

As blended finance moves from the sidelines of financing instruments toward centre stage, the sector has seen the rapid growth of diverse, innovative tools and practices. As approaches have diversified, guidance on which instrument to use and when has not followed at the same pace...

Initiative for Blended Finance 

Blended Finance: When to use which instrument?

Achieving Net Zero Heavy Industry Sectors in G7 Members is a new report by the International Energy Agency that focuses on the implementation of policies aimed at drastically lowering CO2 emissions from heavy industries in the G7 and beyond.

Achieving Net Zero Heavy Industry Sectors in G7 Members

When a wildfire tore through drought-stricken towns near Boulder, Colo., late last year, it reminded Americans that fire risk is changing. It didn’t matter that it was winter

The Washington Post

1 in 6 Americans live in areas with significant wildfire risk

As Biden unwinds dozens of Trump’s energy and
environmental policies, he’s forging his own.

Tracking Biden’s environmental actions

Asia’s governments have declared long-term net-zero targets and are introducing regulation to spur action in the short to medium term across the region’s economies.

Asia Research and Engagement

Banking Asia’s Future: How to Align with National Climate Plans

The GAR Special Report on Drought 2021 explores the systemic nature of drought and its impacts on achievement of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the SDGs and human and ecosystems health and wellbeing.

United Nations

GAR Special Report on Drought 2021

Asia’s exchange-listed food buyers source meat, dairy, seafood and eggs for everyday home, restaurant, airline and hotel use. Many also export beyond Asia. Until now, they have not been benchmarked collectively for their performance on the responsible sourcing of proteins.

Responsible Protein Sourcing in Asia: Baseline Benchmark

World Energy Pulse 2022 presents a quick “pulse” of current attitudes and trends felt across the industry and provides global and regional perspectives of crises implications and transformational actions.

The world is reeling from global energy shocks triggered by the convergence of crises: climate change, covid, and conflict. The interaction of these crises has cascading and uneven impacts in energy which are felt at all levels of society. As leaders seek to step up to meet these crises, responses reflect different experiences and expectations.

World Energy Council

World Energy Pulse 2022

UK airlines have missed all climate targets set since 2000 except for one, a new report claims. The aviation industry sets its own goals for cutting its environmental footprint.



Climate change: Airlines miss all but one target

This WHO/EMRO UNFCCC health and climate change country profile for Turkey provides a summary of available evidence on climate hazards, health vulnerabilities, health impacts and progress to date in health sector efforts to realize a climate-resilient health system.

ReliefWeb

Health and climate change: country profile 2022: Turkey

 Inflows to sustainable funds held up better than conventional peers during the first quarter of 2022, a new report showed on Tuesday, but a big green bond fund took a hit as such debt faces headwinds.

  Sustainable fund Q1 inflows dip, but less than broader market

ESG is a term that has become increasingly established in the past few years. But what exactly is ESG investing? ESG investing is a conscious decision to take environmental, social and governance criteria into consideration in regards of investment decision-making.

Deutsche Bank

Biodiversity: the new playing field for ESG assessment

In 2021, the global fleet of Tesla vehicles, energy storage and solar panels enabled our customers to avoid emitting 8.4 million metric tons of CO2e

Tesla

Tesla releases its 2021 Impact Report, shows strides toward full sustainability

Mining companies have aimed high in recent years with their net-zero goals. However, their actual emissions reduction record is mixed.

Energy Monitor

Mining sector commits to ESG, but more action is needed

How to save money, reduce reliance on Russian energy, support Ukraine and help the planet

Playing my part

It's a pivotal time for energy transitions. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to overshadow global economies, and the pathway to recovery remains uncertain. Set against this backdrop and undertaken immediately following COP26, this annual edition of the World Energy Issues Monitor represents a snapshot of the views of nearly 2,200 energy leaders from 91 countries

WORLD ENERGY ISSUES MONITOR 2022

The Energy 2050 Committee was commissioned by the EMA to guide the planning of Singapore’s future energy system. The Committee, comprising experts from the private and public sectors, released a report with its findings and recommendations on how Singapore can decarbonise the power sector and capture the economic opportunities arising from the energy transition.

Energy 2050 Committee Report

The shift to a green economy will create green jobs within new and emerging sectors, while those working in existing sectors will have to gain the requisite green skills to take advantage of business sustainability.

IEMA

Greening your organisation: A blueprint for a green workforce transformation

Financial institutions (Fls) have started to focus on net-zero as the guiding concept for their climate mitigation ambition.

Science Based Targets

Foundation for science-based net-zero target setting in the financial sector

IEA Sustainable Recovery Tracker’s latest update shows government spending commitments have jumped to USD 710 billion – 40% above the levels after the 2008 global financial crisis

Clean energy spending in governments’ economic recovery packages has surged by 50% since the end of October, reaching unprecedented levels

Direct air capture plays an important and growing role in net zero pathways

Direct Air Capture

The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals.

IPCC

Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

ICAP’s Emissions Trading Worldwide: Status Report 2022 demonstrates how ETS is proliferating across the globe, progressively expanding into new sectors, and aligning with net-zero goals. Emissions trading systems (ETS) play a key role in the challenge of the century: reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Governments’ net-zero commitments cover roughly 70% of global GHG emissions, but many are not supported by the near-term policies. Reaching that long-term goal requires that existing ETSs are strengthened. They are increasingly becoming a policy tool of choice to drive decarbonization and will play a central role in reaching net zero emissions.

ICAP

New ICAP Status Report 2022 presents the latest developments in emissions trading systems worldwide

The report, co-authored by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, and Urgewald, is the most comprehensive global analysis on fossil fuel banking to date. It reveals that the world’s B-biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion in 2021. This underscores the stark disparity between public climate commitments being made by the world’s largest banks, versus the reality of their largely business-as-usual financing to the fossil fuel industry.



Reclaim Finance

Banking on Climate Chaos Report 2022

Wildfires are becoming more intense and more frequent, ravaging communities and ecosystems in their path. Recent years have seen record-breaking wildfire seasons across the world from Australia to the Arctic to North and South America. With global temperatures on the rise, the need to reduce wildfire risk is more critical than ever.

UN Environment Programme

Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires

The role of sophisticated commodity trading in the energy transition

Oliver Wyman

Trading our way to net zero

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, these 10 measures can cut global oil demand by 2.7 million barrels a day quickly.

The International Energy Agency 10 Point Plan to Cut Oil Use

This report highlights recent initiatives to inspire policy action at a time when innovation leadership by the public and private sectors is critical to meeting the net zero challenge. Countries around the world strive to become home to the next major company  emerging from a start-up with a disruptive clean energy invention, and with good reason. Whilst aiding innovation in support of climate and energy goals, nurturing innovative start-ups to maturity can also create local economic prosperity because clean energy transitions will be a major market opportunity for all countries, all century long. 

How Governments Support Clean Energy Start-ups

The global CO2 emissions and energy demand numbers are based on the IEA’s detailed region-by-region and fuel-by-fuel analysis, drawing on the latest official national data and publicly available energy, economic and weather data. Combined with the methane emissions estimates published by the IEA and estimates of nitrous oxide and flaring related CO2 emissions, this new analysis shows that overall greenhouse gas emissions from energy rose to their highest ever level in 2021.

Global Energy Review: CO2 Emissions in 2021

In its new report the Energy Transitions Commission outlines the role of Carbon Dioxide Removals in meeting global climate objectives.

Energy Transitions Commission

Mind the Gap: How Carbon Dioxide Removals Must Complement Deep Decarbonisation to Keep 1.5°C Alive

“As Deans of the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of the Environment, we see in this critical challenge tremendous opportunities to help business do better.”

Yale CBEY

Rising leaders on social and environmental sustainability 

The recent COP26 Summit shone a spotlight on the increasing risks from climate change, raising awareness as to what is required by governments, financial institutions, organisations and the public sector to limit global warming to the 1.5°C target of the 2015 Paris Agreement. 

Orbis

ESG Transparency A Private Equity and Venture Capital Index 2021

Measures implemented this year could bring down gas imports from Russia by over one-third, with additional temporary options to deepen these cuts to well over half while still lowering emissions.

A 10-Point Plan to Reduce the European Union’s Reliance on Russian Natural Gas

The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change.

Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

In this report, the Deloitte Economics Institute presents a portrait of a future the US could create if it uses this valuable window of opportunity to rapidly decarbonize its economy. 

Deloitte

The turning point: A new economic climate in the United States

FEPS

Talking Green: The UK survey

Urban environments experience higher temperatures than their rural surroundings. These higher temperatures can negatively impact human health, including causing cardiovascular and respiratory disorders, as well as heat stroke. It is therefore crucial to lower heat stress in urban environments.

European Commission

Demonstrating heat stress in European cities

Lifting hundreds of millions of people out of “extreme poverty” – where they live on less than US$1.90 per day – would drive a global increase in emissions of less than 1%, according to new research.

Carbon Brief 

Eradicating ‘extreme poverty’ would raise global emissions by less than 1%

The transition to a carbon-neutral economy is a seismic shift on a global scale, leaving no sector untouched. The urgent strategic, operational and reputational challenges are considerable, but so are the opportunities for growth. 

Baker McKenzie

Battery Storage - a global enabler of the Energy Transition

To this day, the demand for metals has kept increasing. The energy transition necessary to meet climate objectives will add to that demand during the upcoming decades, for low-carbon energy technologies require larger metal quantities than their fossil-fuel based counterparts. This frequently raises concerns over the actual capacity of geological stocks to meet demand at scale, which we investigate in the present analysis.

Zenon Research 

Fluxes, not stocks: The real challenges of metallic resources for the energy transition

Assessing the transparency and integrity of companies' emission reduction and net-zero targets

New Climate Institute

Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022

A small but growing group of CDP Supply Chain members and SER leaders are trailblazing a path to truly meaningful environmental action – but they are in the minority. Companies across the entire supply chain must act now to achieve the speed and scale required to avert a cascade of irreversible environmental crises.

Engaging the chain: driving speed and scale

his paper examines China’s domestic and foreign policymaking for the energy transition, and its role in promoting multilateralism and international collaboration on building a sustainable world.

Grantham Research Institute

Internationalism in climate action and China’s role

The latest development in innovation, enlightening on the impact of breakthrough technologies. It sheds light on the 15 "disruptive innovation big ideas" ARK believes will create opportunities for investors. Notably, this year's report strongly argues that "concerns about Bitcoin’s lack of sustainability seem ill-informed" (page 51).

ARK Invest

Big Ideas 2022

Reports | Sustainability

At the start of Q1 2022, global oil and gas industry contract activity was stifled due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. However, in the second half of the quarter a minor increase in the number of contracts was reported.

GlobalData

Global oil and gas contracts stifled in Q1 2022 as a result of rising inflation and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, says GlobalData

Shell and BP are among the companies best positioned to take advantage of future electric vehicles disruption in the oil & gas industry [...]

Offshore Technology

Revealed: the oil & gas companies leading the way in electric vehicles

The clock is ticking on climate action in the oil and gas industry. Reaching net zero by 2050 involves not only curtailing fossil fuel use but also limiting emissions from fossil fuel production as economies transition to a clean energy future.

Environmental Defense Fund

Transferred Emissions: How Risks in Oil and Gas M&A Could Hamper the Energy Transition

McKinsey’s Global Energy Perspective is a collaboration
between Energy Insights and adjacent practices


Global Energy Perspective 2022

As the cost of renewables plummets and the price volatility of natural gas increases, the fossil fuel can no longer be relied on as a lower-emissions bridge fuel to clean energy, a new study finds.

Eco-Business

After Russian invasion, gas is no longer a viable 'bridge' fuel for energy transition

Severe new lockdown measures amid surging Covid cases in China have led to a downward revision in our expectations for global oil demand in 2Q22 and for the year as a whole

Oil Market Report - April 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered a major energy supply and security crisis that has sent commodity prices to new highs, with wider implications for the global economy


Gas Market Report, Q2-2022

The IEA Oil Market Report (OMR) is one of the world's most authoritative and timely sources of data, forecasts and analysis on the global oil market – including detailed statistics and commentary on oil supply, demand, inventories, prices and refining activity, as well as oil trade for IEA and selected non-IEA countries.



Oil Market Report - March 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent energy prices to historic highs, as the conflict has resulted in high market volatility and a coordinated round of sanctions targeting Russia’s economy. J.P. Morgan Research examines the outlook for energy prices as the potential for an ongoing conflict poses potential risks to supply.



J.P. Morgan

What’s Next For Oil And Gas Prices As Sanctions On Russia Intensify

The transportation sector needs to adapt to climate and sustainability targets, and electric vehicles can't solve the problem alone. Are low-carbon fuels the answer?

Boston Consulting Group

The Road Ahead for Low-Carbon Fuels

Advanced technologies are critical to stopping climate change—and the drive to develop and scale them is accelerating. Here are five themes that could attract $2 trillion of annual investment by 2025.

Innovating to net zero: An executive’s guide to climate technology

The future evolution of fossil fuel demand will mainly depend on our collective ability to bridge both ambition and implementation gaps to make climate pledges appropriately ambitious and turn them into actions. It will require the implementation of strong policies to massively deploy low-carbon energy sources and technologies to fill the gap, as well as reducing the all-fuel energy demand through energy efficiency measures and behavioural changes.

Transitioning away from fossil fuels

Developing Countries Need a New Growth Model—Before It’s Too Late. 

Foreign Affairs

The Coming Carbon Tsunami

The UK government launches a consultation on the design of a new climate compatibility checkpoint for the oil and gas industry.

GOV.UK

UK government seeks views on new oil and gas climate checkpoint

Natural gas is the least carbon-intensive of the fossil fuels and can act as a stepping stone to lower carbon energy systems. Gas has already partly displaced more carbon-intensive coal in the US and Europe, with markets in Asia set for coal-to-gas switching in the coming decades.

S&P Global

Gas and Fuels

Fitch expects commodities to remain elevated compared with historical levels, amidst a still-supportive macroeconomic backdrop and low stocks.

Mining.com

Most commodities prices to average lower in 2022 — report

In our December Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we forecast that U.S. dry natural gas production will increase from 95.1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in October 2021 to 97.5 Bcf/d by December 2022, a new record high. 

EIA forecasts U.S. natural gas production will establish a new monthly record high in 2022

As greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow and as extreme weather events become more frequent and harmful, the current efforts to move beyond fossil fuels appear woefully inadequate. Adding to the frustration, the geopolitics of oil and gas are alive and well—and as fraught as ever.

Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy

Both lines of Nord Stream 2 have been built, and the first line is filled with gas at pressure sufficient to start flows. The project has faced many obstacles before reaching this stage, and some of these obstacles, related to technical and regulatory certification, are analysed in this Insight. With the technical certification challenge apparently resolved, Nord Stream 2 is now on the verge of sending gas to Europe, waiting only for clearance from the German regulatory authority.



Oxford Inst. for Energy Studies

Nord Steam 2: on the verge of sending gas to Europe

The pandemic brought strong headwinds for the oil and gas industry, and oil majors felt the blow.

Global primary energy consumption fell by 4.5% relative to 2019 and oil demand declined by 9%. For a brief period in April 2020, the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures went subzero, marking the largest one-day price plunge since 1983.

Some expected the demand crash to have a lasting impact on the industry, but it’s safe to say that 2021 has proved otherwise.

Visual Capitalist

The Largest Oil and Gas Companies in the World

National oil companies (NOCs) and international oil companies (IOCs) are aiming to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operations. Regulators, investors, customers, and other stakeholders are pressuring the industry to decarbonize. Although the long-term aim is net-zero emissions, it is vital to translate these targets into action in the near term and manage perceptional and commercial risks. 

Greening the barrel: Translating net-zero ambitions into action in the oil and gas industry

Against the backdrop of turbulent markets and a crucial meeting of the COP26 conference on climate change in Glasgow, the 2021 World Energy Outlook (WEO) provides an indispensable guide to the opportunities, benefits and risks ahead at this vital moment for clean energy transitions.

World Energy Outlook 2021 | Executive Summary

Building on the estimates of emissions and abatement options in the IEA Methane Tracker and our Regulatory Roadmap and Toolkit, we quantify the potential impact of a range of measures, including policy and regulatory action, voluntary industry initiatives and improvements in transparency of emissions data. By identifying the different measures and approaches that can limit methane emissions, this analysis aims to provide insights and guidance for decision-makers in the lead-up to COP26 and beyond.

Curtailing Methane Emissions from Fossil Fuel Operations

TotalEnergies is seeking to sell part of its stake in the huge Laggan Tormore gas field in the west of Shetland, according to a news article.

Reuters reported on the sale of the 20% stake, citing six banking sources, with TotalEnergies seeking to raise around $300million (£220m).

Energy Voice

TotalEnergies seeking £220m for partial stake in Laggan Tormore field

Putting a price on CO2 is the surest way to drive the energy transition, with a growing number of countries adopting emissions trading systems, carbon taxes or a combination of both. Now global carbon markets are moving beyond national and regional compliance arenas, with significant volumes being traded in voluntary carbon credits.

Carbon Markets

As the world seeks to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, oil and gas companies need to step up as well. Drilling for fossil fuels will always involve some level of CO2 emissions, but companies can do a better job of decarbonizing their upstream oil and gas operations.

Toward Lower Carbon Emissions in Upstream Oil and Gas: The Infographic

This academically reviewed FactBook by Kearney Energy Transition Institute, “Gas Hydrates,” presents key concepts; the status of exploration and production technologies; the status of research, development, and demonstration (RD&D); and the environmental and safety challenges associated with the potential exploitation of this resource.

Kearney

Taking the heat out of the burning-ice debate.

IEA Key World Energy Statistics (KWES) is an introduction to energy statistics, providing top-level numbers across the energy mix, from supply and demand, to prices and research budgets, including outlooks, energy indicators and definitions. KWES is part of the IEA's annual edition of the world’s most comprehensive series of energy databases and data services, which include World Energy Statistics and Balances and the full range of fuel information data services.

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