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The U.S. should support the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

January 30, 2023 by Joseph Majkut

The U.S. should get behind Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), says Joseph Majkut at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Under the EU’s newest agreement, anyone importing CBAM-listed goods into Europe will have to report the emissions associated with their products starting in October, and ultimately face tariffs if those emissions exceed those of the equivalent products made in the EU. The current list is iron and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Industry Tagged With: aluminium, Brazil, BRIC, CBAM, cement, China, electricity, emissions, EU, fertiliser, hydrogen, imports, India, iron, Russia, steel, tariffs, trade, US, WTO

Biofuel is approaching a feedstock crunch. How bad? And what must be done?

January 23, 2023 by IEA

The IEA is warning that biodiesel, renewable diesel and biojet fuel producers are heading for a feedstock supply crunch over the next five years. Rising prices are the signal to seek out new supplies and solutions, which should – and are - driving the development of government programmes and industry innovation. Here, the IEA lays out their projections for 2022-2027, covering all the main feedstocks: sugars, maize, soy oil, rapeseed oil, palm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biofuels, Energy Tagged With: AnimalFats, biodiesel, biofuel, biojet, Brazil, CookingOil, decarbonisation, demand, Europe, feedstock, IEA, Indonesia, industry, maize, PalmOil, prices, rapeseed, residues, soy, sugars, supply, US, waste

EVs vs Biofuels: new study looks at ethanol’s impact on agricultural land use, food prices, emissions

July 21, 2022 by Josh Gabbatiss

For transport, biofuels have lower emissions than gasoline/petrol, but EVs will have the lowest emissions of all. Hence the opposition to those biofuels, along with objections to the valuable cropland used to make the ethanol. But the overall advantage depends on the speed of transition to EVs charged with clean electricity. Now, a calculation has been made of the amount of agricultural land preserved for global food production - or kept as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biofuels, Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: agriculture, biofuels, Brazil, CarbonSinks, China, electrification, emissions, ethanol, EVs, Food, India, maize, transport, US

What is your nation’s “deforestation footprint”? When imports cut down trees somewhere else

April 27, 2021 by Ayesha Tandon

Behaviour change is now inextricably linked to the transition and must be part of the world’s emissions reduction strategy, and there are many different types of relevant behaviour and ways to measure the impacts. One is to look at deforestation, caused by chopping down trees to meet our consumer needs. To grasp whose behaviour has to change we need to appreciate to what extent deforestation in places like Brazil, Canada, Liberia, Vietnam etc., … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Environment Tagged With: BehaviourChange, Brazil, China, consumers, deforestation, emissions, Germany, imports, Japan, Singapore, US

Updated NDCs: World committing to 0.5% emissions cuts by 2030. It should be 45%

March 2, 2021 by Josh Gabbatiss

The latest national climate pledges, submitted over the new year, show that the world is nowhere near meeting our emissions reductions goals. Analysis of the 48 updated “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) submitted so far (everyone must submit by the end of this year), covering nations responsible for 29% of global emissions, shows we will have 0.5% lower emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. That’s way off the target 45% reduction needed. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: Brazil, Canada, China, CO2, COP26, emissions, EU, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Paris2050, Russia, SKorea, UK, UNFCCC, US

Gas oversupply and clean energy’s rise: now is the time to fast-track gas market reforms

September 29, 2020 by Jean-Baptiste Dubreuil, Gergely Molnar and Songho Jeon

Traditional monopolistic and oligopolistic gas markets artificially keep gas prices high, work against competition and efficiency, and have no place in the modern world, say Jean-Baptiste Dubreuil, Gergely Molnar and Songho Jeon at the IEA. They calculate that gas market reforms in the EU, begun in the mid 1990s, saved the bloc $15bn in 2019. But it typically takes 20 years for such a market to be properly established. The authors explain that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: Brazil, China, coal, EU, gas, India, markets, policies, UK, US

UK’s COP26 Presidency will be the first big test of its post-Brexit diplomatic skills

March 2, 2020 by Lucien Chabason and Lola Vallejo

November’s COP26 will arguably be the most important since the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015. By then, all signatory nations are required to submit their new and improved nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that set a credible pathway towards reducing their emissions. So far only the Marshall Islands, Suriname, and Norway have done so. Lucien Chabason and Lola Vallejo at IDDRI ask whether the UK teams behind their new COP26 President, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: adaptation, Brazil, Brexit, China, COP26, emissions, EU, finance, India, NDCs, transport, UK, US

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