All articles by Oliver Gordon

Oliver Gordon

@OllieGordon88

Correspondent Oliver Gordon is a sustainability-focused multimedia journalist based in London. He has previously worked for Struggles From Below, Uxolo Development Finance, Proximo Infra, TXF News, City AM and Euromoney. Contact Ollie at: oliver.gordon [at] globaldata.com

The science behind forest carbon credits is sound, finds new study

Forest-based carbon credits have had a rough couple of years. Numerous academic studies and media investigations have unearthed vastly inflated…
Carbon removal: 27 years to create the world’s largest industry

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report, carbon removal, or carbon dioxide (CO₂) removal (CDR), will…
The water crisis threatens the energy transition – CDP

Companies involved in the global energy transition are highly exposed to water security risks and are already seeing some of…
Petrostates to lose $8trn of fossil-fuel income by 2040

COP28 host the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is among 28 petrostates that risk losing over half their revenues from fossil…
“Extraordinary” clean energy growth keeping 1.5°C door ajar – IEA’s Laura Cozzi

During October, the International Energy Agency (IEA), a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, released two key reports analysing global progress in…

Are forest-based carbon offsets worth saving?

More than half of the world’s largest public companies have committed to an emissions reduction target and many plan to…
Fossil-fuel subsidies rise to record $7trn – IMF

Fossil-fuel subsidies rose to a record $7trn last year as governments bolstered consumers and businesses during the energy crisis, according…
AI cuts climate-warming contrails of planes by 54% – Google study

Google Research, American Airlines and Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy have used artificial intelligence (AI) to develop contrail forecast maps that…
Governments should stop ‘propping up’ oil and gas – report

Declining fossil fuel volumes coming from the North Sea, alongside the economic downturns resulting from Covid-19 and the Ukraine War,…
Survey reveals lack of energy sector upskilling harming UK’s net-zero transition

UK energy sector workers believe there is a worrying lack of leadership and support to meet the government's target to…