How India's 2070 net zero goal is a far bigger deal than it sounds
India has gone from a position of accepting no limits on the world’s greenhouse emissions, to setting a constraint on even its own carbon footprint
Global energy crisis due to shortage, not climate activism
From the way some analysts have been talking lately, you’d think that energy markets obeyed some version of the butterfly effect, where flapping wings...
China needs structural economic reforms to prevent future meltdown
If Beijing doesn’t reform a system that refuses to face up to its internal contradictions, the problems of an economy fed by credit and carbon will...
Pandora Papers show rich will always find a way
The latest set of leaks to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is the largest yet
Is Aluminum surge an energy crisis in disguise?
The industry needs to find another source of power or it won’t survive the transition to a decarbonized society
Evergrande and China's energy crisis are two sides of one coin
For decades, Chinese growth has been fuelled by credit and carbon; Beijing finally seems to be serious about tackling these twin issues, but at what...
How China's casino capital crackdown attacks the symptoms, not the...
World’s largest gambling destination Macau will increase supervision of casinos and the junket operators, anyone who believes the changes will bring...
Is Covid becoming another virus posing risk to vaccinated people?
It's time to remind ourselves that, for those who’ve been inoculated, the coronavirus is no longer the imminent threat it was early last year