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15 October 2020

Carbon Tracker Webinar - TEDxCarbon Tracker: Peak fossil fuel demand: When is the peak and what does it mean for financial markets and geopolitics?

Carbon Tracker Initiative
This webinar will explore the timing of peak fossil fuel demand and what it means for financial markets and geopolitics, touching on topics from two of the Countdown themes: resilient economies and the future of energy.
November 2017

Demand Side Management: A Case for Disruptive Behaviour

International Institute for Applied Systems (IIASA), N.N. Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, GGKP Annual Conference, University College London (UCL)
The UK electricity system is undergoing a significant transformation. Increasing penetration of renewable generation and integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as electrical storage, solar PV and wind generators challenge the traditional way of balancing electricity in the grid, whereby supply matches demand.
November 2019

Using Renewables for Electric Vehicle Demand: A Review of Utility Program Designs and Implementation Strategies

World Resources Institute (WRI)
This paper explores the range of approaches and emerging program designs currently used in the United States to match EV loads and renewable energy, with an emphasis on methods that more closely link the timing and location of the EV demand with renewable energy supply.
June 2015

China’s “new normal”: structural change, better growth, and peak emissions

Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), University of Leeds, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science

China’s economy is undergoing a major structural transformation towards a new development model focused on achieving better quality growth that is more economically and environmentally sustainable, and achieves better social outcomes for the Chinese people.

October 2017

Demand for Off-grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda

University of Passau, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, GGKP Annual Conference
In this paper, Demand for Off-grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda, reveals willingness to pay for different off-grid solar technologies in Rwanda.
November 2020

Nothing to lose but your chains: The emerging market transport leapfrog

This report highlights the pending choice for emerging markets between importing expensive oil at rising prices and growing dependency, or domestic electricity produced by renewable energy sources which is seeing prices continue to fall over time.
6 May 2020

CTI Webinar - The Energy Transition: the knowns & unknowns

English
On 6 May 2020, 15:00 (CEST), the Carbon Tracker Initiative is hosting a webinar on 'The Energy Transition: the knowns & unknowns'.
June 2012

Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles: Made for Each Other?

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Transport Forum (ITF)

Electric vehicles are a potentially significant route towards low-carbon transport but widespread adoption of e-mobility will lead to greater consumption of electricity. Existing electricity systems will need to be reconfigured to meet these needs if reliance on fossil fuels is not to increase.

June 2020

Decline and Fall: The Size & Vulnerability of the Fossil Fuel System

Carbon Tracker has been writing for many years about which areas are most at risk from the energy transition. They have focused on different areas of supply and demand for existing and new assets, over separate timescales, and the conclusions of that analysis are incorporated into this report.

China's Policies and Actions on Climate Change (2015)

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China

Since 2014, China has actively taken measures in various fields to tackle climate change and achieved remarkable outcomes. China issued the National Climate Change Plan (2014-2020) putting forward China’s main objectives and key tasks to address climate change before 2020.

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