
COP28: A ‘historic’ climate deal?
The COP28 climate conference was an exercise in pragmatism, yet still delivered significant steps in the energy transition. Success will depend on concrete follow-through.







The COP28 climate conference was an exercise in pragmatism, yet still delivered significant steps in the energy transition. Success will depend on concrete follow-through.

Politically divided Libya is trying to ramp up its petroleum output and draw foreign investors back to its vast oil fields.

The growing EV sector promises to end our reliance on oil, but its benefits may not be evenly distributed worldwide…

Some countries have a stranglehold on the materials the world needs to build a low-carbon economy…

The EU imports a fifth of its uranium supplies from Russia, and sooner or later it will come under pressure to look for alternatives…

As we become enveloped in one of the worst energy crises in memory, with rocketing prices and rising doubts about basic national energy security or reliability, a chorus of advice keeps coming forward from expert quarters.

Many technologies needed for the green transition exist, but there are still significant hurdles before they can be deployed at the scale needed to reach net-zero emissions in the coming decades.