Zsófia Végh writes on the Budapest Business Journal website climate and energy policy reforms are needed in Hungary. To start with, Hungarian energy strategy needs to be dealt with in the context of climate policy and economic development. There is also a need to accelerate decarbonisation. What are your views? Efficient Climate and Energy … Continue reading
The Madrid climate conference is over but the analysis and the arguments for where we are going and where we need to be going. Zeke Hausfather, Director of Climate and Energy at Breakthrough, provides a very detailed article about what he feels should be the new business as usual scenario to 2100. He argues that … Continue reading
EiD has looked at various industries and how they are addressing the low carbon energy transition. Now we look at the music industry and its impact. Lowri Ellcock discusses latest developments in an article on The Guardian website. I made excuses’: music industry frets over becoming carbon neutral As they released their eighth album, … Continue reading
No one assumed the low carbon energy transition would be easy. One software engineer from Microsoft writes anonymously on the Logic magazine website about the partnership that Big Tech is forging with Big Oil in what is considered a lucrative partnership. It is an important read to see what is happening now. What are your … Continue reading
Smart fans promise a significant reduction in energy consumption, particularly in countries such as India. Neha Dewan explains in an article on the Economic Times of India website. How can India end up saving 2800 GWh energy per year? Change the fans He may have got an offer letter from the Indian Space Research … Continue reading
Last week EiD published a blog that was critical of the IEA. This was but one of a series of blogs that have been concerned by the messages and analysis from the IEA. In the week that the IEA has published its most recent World Energy Outlook, Kelly Trout writes on the Price of Oil … Continue reading
This week, the IEA published its 2019 version of its annual World Energy Outlook. Brad Plumer writes in The New York Times about his main takeaways. 5 Global Trends Shaping Our Climate Future Wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles are spreading far more quickly around the world than many experts had predicted. But … Continue reading
In September, EiD had a post on concerns about modelling at the International Energy Agency and whether it truly meets the objectives of the Paris climate agreement. Now the Oil Change International team write on the Price of Oil website about similar concerns. They worry that there is now an over reliance on natural gas … Continue reading
Barbara Frei, Executive Vice President of Europe Operations at Schneider Electric, recently spoke at an innovation summit that there is a lot of “untapped potential” to improve energy efficiency but even with such innovations as electric vehicles, there is still a need to cut energy demand. Jonny Bairstow explains in an article on the Energy … Continue reading
Recently, The Guardian has had a series of articles on the need to rein in the oil majors. The lead article on the series was by Rick Heede, who leads the Climate Accountability Institute’s Carbon Majors project, which traces carbon dioxide emissions to oil, gas, and coal producers. Rick is a long-time friend of EiD. … Continue reading
