(Investing) – BRUSSELS – Many of the world’s biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global warming come under pressure following U.S. President Donald Trump’s election. The nearly 200 countries signed up to the Paris Agreement faced a Monday deadline to submit new national climate plans to the U.N., setting out
(Oil Price) – U.S. clean energy groups and hundreds of their member companies are beginning on Wednesday a series of meetings with members of Congress to lobby the Trump Administration to keep the tax credits from the Biden-era climate and infrastructure laws. President Donald Trump reversed most of Biden’s energy and climate policies on Day One, signing a series of executive orders to
(Oil Price) – The Trump administration is looking into ways to cancel federal loans granted by the Department of Energy for transition projects from a $400-billion fund, Bloomberg has reported, citing an unnamed source. According to the report, the new leadership at the Department of Energy would focus its financial firepower on projects in nuclear energy, liquefied gas and other segments supported
(Oil & Gas 360) – The Oil and Gas Decarbonisation Congress (DECARBON) 2025 welcomes top management and leading technical specialists to present companies’ experience and solutions for reducing carbon emissions within the oil and gas sector. The Congress is held in Berlin, Germany on 10-11 February. As the global focus intensifies on reducing carbon emissions to combat climate change, oil
(Oil Price) – Global investments in green energy solutions topped $2 trillion last year, for the first time ever, but the world needs to pour in $5.6 trillion each year into low-carbon energy to get on track for global net zero by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement, BloombergNEF said in a new report on Thursday. Last year, green energy investments reached a record
(Investing)– LONDON – Global investment in low-carbon energy transition exceeded $2 trillion for the first time last year, a report by BloombergNEF showed on Thursday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Countries around the world are investing in and developing cleaner sources of power and infrastructure to meet climate targets under the Paris Agreement but many experts say the pace is not fast enough.
(Oil Price) – Poor returns prompted investors to withdraw record amount of money from the EU’s funds with the strictest ESG standards, a report by market research firm Morningstar has shown. The EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), adopted in 2021, regulates and classifies funds according to their sustainability. The so-called Article 8 funds are registered as “promoting” ESG goals,
(Investing) – WASHINGTON – The International Energy Agency needs to revamp how it writes its annual energy outlook to reflect real-world scenarios, not to bolster its current focus on the global energy transition, according to a report released on Wednesday by the agency’s former oil director. The report named Energy Delusions was written by former IEA oil director Neil Atkinson for
(Oil Price) – By reversing and axing most climate policies of the Biden administration, U.S. President Donald Trump will not be able to reverse progress in the energy transition as there is still a “compelling case” in favor of clean energy solutions, according to Citigroup’s analysts. “Clean energy is cheaper, more widely available, and more efficient,” Citigroup ESG analysts wrote in
(World Oil) – SLB Capturi has completed commissioning and is handing over its modular carbon capture plant at Twence’s waste-to-energy facility in Hengelo, Netherlands. SLB Capturi is the joint venture between SLB and Aker Carbon Capture, dedicated to carbon removal and reduction solutions. The new plant has the capacity to capture up to 100,000 metric tons of CO2 per year, which
(Investing) – BRUSSELS/LONDON – A second U.S. withdrawal from the world’s primary climate pact will have a bigger impact – in the U.S. and globally – than the country’s first retreat in 2017, analysts and diplomats told Reuters. One of President Donald Trump’s first acts on returning to office on Monday was to quit the Paris Agreement as part of his
(Oil & Gas 360) – The Oil and Gas Decarbonisation Congress (DECARBON) 2025 welcomes top management and leading technical specialists to present companies’ experience and solutions for reducing carbon emissions within the oil and gas sector. The Congress is held in Berlin, Germany on 10-11 February. As the global focus intensifies on reducing carbon emissions to combat climate change, oil
