This is the week that many of the world’s institutions received a lecture from the new US administration on changes that should be made. The Financial Times reports: “US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has accused the IMF and World Bank of “mission creep”, calling for them to step back from “their sprawling and unfocused agendas” … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, April 27-28, 2025
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Energy sector leaders usher in a new era of energy security
The high-level gathering of governments and industry, co-hosted by IEA and UK, concludes with shared understanding of a broader and more resilient approach to energy security. But it also concluded that fossil fuels will continue to play an important role and questions the net zero energy transition objectives. Joe Lo writes on the Climate Home … Continue reading Energy sector leaders usher in a new era of energy security
Two scientists say they’ve built a tool that can calculate how much damage each oil company’s planet-warming pollution has caused
Nicolás Rivero writes on the Washington Post website about a new tool that two scientists have built to calculate damage from carbon emissions. Climate advocates hope this sort of model could result in court rulings that make polluters pay. The oil and gas industry contests the science. Scientists say they can calculate the cost … Continue reading Two scientists say they’ve built a tool that can calculate how much damage each oil company’s planet-warming pollution has caused
Energy in Demand News, April 20-21, 2025
What on earth is going on? The Financial Times reports: “US philanthropies and non-profits groups focused on climate change fear that a potential loss of their tax-free status under the Trump administration could imperil their programmes. Concerns have grown that the Trump administration is drafting an executive order on the eve of so-called Earth day … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, April 20-21, 2025
Labour unions, and not oil companies, played the leading role in killing a bill that would have let disaster victims in California sue for causing climate change
Ryan Sabalow writes on the CalMatters website about Big Oil’s most influential allies in California, the unions, in killing a measure that had support from nearly every California environmental organisation. How labor killed a bill to let California wildfire victims sue Big Oil for climate change Oil companies had their hackles up this year … Continue reading Labour unions, and not oil companies, played the leading role in killing a bill that would have let disaster victims in California sue for causing climate change
Energy in Demand News, April 13, 2025
Let’s start this early spring week with some seasonal background music for you to enjoy reading this week’s newsletter. When Trump returned to the White House this year, we heard a lot of “drill, baby, drill.” Well, there is more. The Washington Post reports that at the White House this week: Trump signed executive orders … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, April 13, 2025
Record-high solar and wind bring the US to a clean power tipping point
Nicolas Fulghum, Senior Data Analyst, at the global thinktank Ember shows the progress in clean electricity production in the US. Fughum said separately: “This clearly demonstrates the growing role of wind and solar in the US energy system. This is a first signal that the US is approaching a tipping point where clean power takes … Continue reading Record-high solar and wind bring the US to a clean power tipping point
The International Maritime Organisation agreed to the sector’s first binding targets to reduce GHG emissions from ships
The shipping sector is now the first industry with internationally mandated targets to reduce emissions. This outcome is the result of constructive discussions among IMO member states since the adoption of the IMO’s 2023 greenhouse gas (GHG) strategy. Ship owners who fail to reduce emissions intensity 30% by 2035 will have to pay into a … Continue reading The International Maritime Organisation agreed to the sector’s first binding targets to reduce GHG emissions from ships
Energy in Demand News, April 6-7, 2025
Let’s start this early spring week with some background music for you to enjoy reading this week’s newsletter. Everyone is still trying to come to grips with the “Liberation Day” tariffs that we’ve all been saddled with. The Guardian reports that there have been some exceptions. “Trump’s new 10% universal tariffs – which are higher … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, April 6-7, 2025
“We successfully increased people’s opposition to new fossil fuel projects by simply asking them to imagine a sustainable world”
Obviously there is much power in the imagination. In an article on The Conversation website, Michael T. Schmitt, Professor, Simon Fraser University and Annika E. Lutz, PhD researcher, Simon Fraser University discuss their recent study where participants who were asked to imagine a sustainable world expressed more opposition to the two fossil fuel projects than … Continue reading “We successfully increased people’s opposition to new fossil fuel projects by simply asking them to imagine a sustainable world”
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