Finance, geopolitics cast shadow over climate talks
With the Paris Agreement rules in place, the UN climate talks are switching focus from process to implementation – but geopolitics and disputes over finance cast…
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Mark Nicholls
Contributing editor Mark Nicholls, co-founder and former editor of Environmental Finance, specialises in sustainable finance and responsible investment, including ESG disclosure and carbon markets. He can be found on LinkedIn here.
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Ukraine invasion sends carbon markets on rollercoaster ride
With Europe’s energy and climate policy wracked by crisis, it is no surprise that the carbon market has been…
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Opinion: The net-zero transition just got harder – and more urgent
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a paradigm shift for the energy transition and global climate action. Continued progress will be…
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Taking ownership of supply chain emissions
Most companies’ climate impact lies in their supply chains. Tackling upstream scope 3 carbon emissions poses problems of calculation…
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Taking the heat out of funding the transition
Soaring energy prices have reignited the debate in the UK on green and social levies. As the costs of…
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Carbon markets get amber light from COP26
Agreement on Article 6 in Glasgow sets the stage for a global carbon market – but buyers and sellers…
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Cashing in from closing coal
Private capital will be needed to accelerate the coal phase-out. Balancing public good and private profit will be challenging.
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Emitters nervously eye EU carbon market
After a dramatic rally in EU carbon prices to more than €90 a tonne in 2021, analysts are divided…
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UK emitters rue splendid isolation from EU ETS
The UK Emissions Trading System may have confounded the worst predictions ahead of its launch – but market dislocation…
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