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Brazil is back; but are they a decade late?
COP20 in Lima ended its first full week on a mixed note, but with some positive signs for the ongoing process. The detailed discussions on the role of carbon markets under the SBSTA ended in...
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Reality and distortions in Lima
Wandering the COP20 campus, listening to side events and hearing senior political, business and NGO representatives talk about the climate issue results in a mild reality distortion field impairing...
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Carbon pricing policy in 2018. Was it a year of progress??
Carbon pricing remains at the centre of most government policy discussions on climate change, but in a year which saw the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) give an unambiguous warning on...
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An Article 6 Case Study: Brazil
In a recent post I illustrated how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement might work in practice, using a small set of archetype countries as shown below. While there are many ‘Country A’ examples, it is...
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Seeing the forests and the trees
I was fortunate to be in Brazil recently and as part of the trip I visited the offices of Carbonext1 in São Paulo, one of the leading companies in the voluntary carbon market space, in this case...
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Brazil: Leading the world to net-zero emissions
As the world strives to get to net-zero emissions, Brazil can play a formidable role in helping to enable such an outcome, but it won’t happen without the broad recognition of carbon removal credits...
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In Brazil, land use change looms large
The recent release of the Brazil Scenarios Sketch, based around the Shell Energy Security Scenarios, highlights the role that land-use change could play for Brazil to achieve two important outcomes;...
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The emerging EV wave knows no bounds
In June the Shell Scenarios team launched our Brazil Scenarios Sketch, a deep dive into how the energy transition might unfold in Brazil and how the country can become a world leader in better...
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Can Brazil balance oil and climate ambitions?
This post is a guest contribution by Thomas Akkerhuis, Energy Analyst and Richard Baker, Senior Energy Adviser, both in the Shell Scenarios Team. As the Brazil hosted G20 approaches and thoughts...
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