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Report: Rapid Transport Decarbonization Means We’ve Probably Passed Peak Oil

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Kingsmill Bond, the Carbon Tracker report’s lead author, told GTM that the shift implied in China's announcement adds important new data to future oil demand projections. Bond points to the fact that electrification is well underway in China, with 60 percent of two-wheelers and 60 percent of buses electrified.

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Fossil fuel power generation has peaked worldwide, think tanks claim

Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Emerging markets are about to generate all the growth in their electricity supply from renewables," said Kingsmill Bond, Carbon Tracker energy strategist and report co-author. Overall, the analysis expects fossil fuel demand in emerging markets to peak as early as 2025.

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Are we finally in the death-throes of the fossil fuel era?

Renewable Energy World

JUNE 1, 2021

We are entering a new epoch, comparable to the industrial revolution,” writes Kingsmill Bond, Carbon Tracker’s lead strategist and the report’s author. To many, this seems like an unlikely and utopian vision, but Carbon Tracker insists that the hour is nigh. “We

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'Decline and fall': Transition away from fossil fuel economy could lead to plummeting valuations for high carbon assets

Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

We are witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system," said Kingsmill Bond, Carbon Tracker energy strategist and report author. Carbon Tracker's Bond stressed that an "orderly wind-down" was necessary to manage the energy transition's impact on the global economy.

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'The sky's the limit': How 'cheap, abundant' renewables could boot fossil fuels from the electricity sector by mid-2030s

Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

We are entering a new epoch, comparable to the industrial revolution," Carbon Tracker energy strategist and lead author Kingsmill Bond said. The UK is placed in the "replete" category, with the researchers calculating it has technical renewables potential that is just over 10 times demand. "We

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Will the covid crisis herald the end for the age of the business flight?

Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

Kingsmill Bond, energy strategist at the influential think tank Carbon Tracker, said today's survey "reinforces our central observation that 2019 was the peak of the fossil fuel era".

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How the oil industry's bet on plastics risks $400bn in stranded assets

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Remove the plastic pillar holding up the future of the oil industry, and the whole narrative of rising oil demand collapses," argued Kingsmill Bond, Carbon Tracker energy strategist and lead author of today's report.

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How the oil industry's bet on plastics risk $400bn in stranded assets

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Remove the plastic pillar holding up the future of the oil industry, and the whole narrative of rising oil demand collapses," argued Kingsmill Bond, Carbon Tracker energy strategist and lead author of today's report.

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On batteries, minerals, the circular economy, and finite supply

Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Energy strategist Kingsmill Bond with Carbon Tracker has blown up the myth that minerals are constrained by simply running the numbers. His projections are even conservative in that they assume battery components won’t change, when of course they will.

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Could emerging market EV boom herald the 'end of the oil era'?

Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

"This is a simple choice between growing dependency on what has been expensive oil produced by a foreign cartel, or domestic electricity produced by renewable sources whose prices fall over time," said Kingsmill Bond, lead author of the report. Emerging market importers will bring the oil era to an end," he concluded.

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Is the world finally at a clean energy tipping point?

Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Kingsmill Bond, energy strategist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, today welcomed the sight of an oil and gas major acknowledging oil and fossil fuel demand had peaked. "Rather than slowing down, energy transition investment has surged to a new record as countries and businesses continue to execute on transition plans.

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How can the world kick its oil habit?

Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To just remove them from our energy system within a decade or two is completely fanciful,” says Kingsmill Bond, an energy strategist at think-tank Carbon Tracker, which is calling on governments and financial institutions to align themselves with a low-carbon economy (6). The problem is absolutely immense.

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Roaring Twenty-Twenties: Accelerating Energy Transition

Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Kingsmill Bond from Carbon Trackers stated: “Now is the time to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable.” There is far more risk in the fossil fuel system than is conventionally priced into financial markets.

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The Future(s) of Fossil Fuels - 2020

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

According to Kingsmill Bond, energy strategist for Carbon Tracker, fossil fuel companies and their investors have failed to realize the current decline of the fossil fuel industry. Carbon Tracker states that the world is “witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system”. This may prove to be terminal.

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