Simon Sharpe, Deputy Director, UK COP26 Unit, and Drew Kodjak, Executive Director, International Council on Clean Transportation The transition from petrol and diesel cars to zero emission vehicles is accelerating towards a tipping point. Governments of some of the world’s largest and most influential car markets just agreed to work […]
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Forecasters of the energy transition keep making the same mistake: radically underestimating the pace of change. Events of the last week show that the transition will continue to accelerate. To get ahead of the game, we need to think in curves instead of straight lines. Investors need to learn quickly, or else they […]
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