“Difficult to abate”: the growth of new fuels in aviation and shipping
Transport by air and sea depends on engines that usually run on fossil fuels, increasing CO₂ emissions. Even though road…
11 Sep 2023
Africa Climate Summit wraps up with seminal – but flawed – ‘Nairobi Declaration’
NAIROBI - It felt at first like a climate summit born out of chaos. From the confusion around which leaders would be appearing (at one point French President Emmanuel Macron’s…
11 Sep 2023
The new layout of the global oil market
After three difficult and challenging years of the Covid-19 pandemic, followed by trade disruption from Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the world's oil markets are still readjusting. An "unprecedented reshuffling"…
07 Sep 2023
Peril on High Seas: the Yemen oil tanker and the menace of oil spills
The ironically named FSO Safer, an oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen, for six years, carrying with it the looming disaster of an oil spill. Holding 1.1m tonnes…
28 Aug 2023
Concrete for the future: An interview with ECOncrete CEO Ido Sella
Approximately 70% of marine infrastructure globally relies on concrete, however its components are consistently linked with marine biome degradation. Marine infrastructure company ECOncrete aims to change how marine installations affect…
10 Aug 2023
‘We’re a world that’s built on fossil fuels and emissions are our enemy’: Carbon Engineering talks direct air capture
The race to decarbonise has picked up pace in response to global crises, with companies, countries and economic blocs ramping up efforts to hit emissions reduction targets and keep in…
26 Jul 2023
Weekly data: how Rosebank threatens the UK’s carbon budget
Over the past weeks, the effects of global warming on Europe have felt nothing less than apocalyptic: from birds falling to death in Italy, bludgeoned by gigantic hailstones, to Greece…