#carbon bubble

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As a layman, an out of control financial crash sounds bad.

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This infographic realised for Carbon Tracker accompanies an analyst note on the Energy Transition. The study by Kingsmill Bond finds that the energy transition tipping point for policy makers is coming. Renewables solve the energy trilemma because they are now cheaper than fossils, cleaner than fossils, and enhance energy security

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This infographic accompanies the Carbon Tracker report “Paying With Fire: How oil and gas executives are rewarded for chasing growth and why shareholders could get burned” (Feb 2019). The energy transition needs less use of fossil fuels, yet oil & gas bosses are rewarded for increasing production? And shareholders could get burned. The study analyses the remuneration schemes of 40 oil & gas companies.

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The recent EU carbon market reform (MSR) has led the EU carbon price to triple in a year. This infographic accompanies a Carbon Tracker study published in August 2018, which found prices could average €35-40/t over 2019-23, driving a fuel switch from coal to gas in the power sector & save 400mtCO2 emissions.

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This is a series of five infographics produced to accompany the Carbon Tracker report “2020 Vision” (Sep 2018). They identify the key drivers od the energy transition, analysis the fall in price for renewables and the role of emerging markets. Finally the warn investors about the financial risks capital markets investing in fossil fuels will face in the next decade. The graphics are also included in this video animation.

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Fossil Fuels Are Next in Line for a Bailout – Here's How We Respond

We need a federal buyout to wind down the fossil fuel industry, not a bailout to prop up its toxic "carbon bubble."

Excerpt:

Like the financial industry, the fossil fuel industry has also created (and continues to expand) a toxic “bubble” inside the financial market. This “carbon bubble” takes the shape of massive fossil fuel reserves and infrastructure that will no longer be needed if we act to avoid the worst effects of climate change. That means fossil fuels won’t provide the financial returns investors expect.

The industry publicly dismisses this as speculation as it tries to brush away any constraints to its business model related to addressing climate change. But a study published by Nature Climate Change in early June concluded that “whether or not new climate policies are adopted,” market trauma is in store. With an estimate of up to $4 trillion in global wealth already constrained by the rise of low-carbon technologies deployed as a result of past policies and investment decisions, fossil fuel-exporter nations like the United States will be the biggest financial losers.

In many ways, we can already see how by looking at the US coal mining industry. Since 2010, this sector has been facing a significant decline, with 271 coal-fired power plants (more than half of the country’s fleet) retired or scheduled to retire. But coal is far from the only industry affected. Even the fracking industry, which has brought US once again to the list of top oil and gas producers, is accumulating a loss of $280 billion since 2007.

To avoid a rerun of the 2008 bailouts, we need a robust policy alternative to successfully stabilize the climate and the economy. “Green New Deal”-style proposals that implement “structural changes to our political and financial systems in order to alter the trajectory of our environment,” such as the one in New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s platform, are important, but we also need to prepare for a potential downward financial spiral in the meantime.

A straightforward answer to the climate and financial challenges facing the nation is a federal buyout aimed at winding down, not propping up, the fossil fuel industry. By using the same monetary tool we used in the past, quantitative easing, the federal government can create the needed money to once again prevent the country from entering an economic depression. The difference is, instead of a bailout in which fossil fuel companies can continue concentrating wealth and power, the federal government would acquire the majority of fossil fuel companies’ shares and, most importantly, secure control and decision-making power over the future of the noxious assets already in those companies’ hands. By giving intervention a new purpose, the government would secure for citizens — not the fossil fuel industry — a floor below which we cannot fall and a foundation upon which we can build a more sustainable green economy.

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The 'carbon bubble': The last, best corporate excuse for failing to save the planet

The ‘carbon bubble’: The last, best corporate excuse for failing to save the planet

It was always going to come down to this. Use it or lose it. Fix it or screw it. Live or die. 

It all costs money, doesn’t it. To fix to. To unscrew it. To find a way for the rest of us to remain living on the planet. 

And the people making money, for decades, from public natural resources, want to continue making money from public natural resources, no matter the cost. To us. 

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What is your pension fund invested in when this hits?