Tag: Carbon Pricing
How to Defuse the EU’s Carbon Tax Time Bomb
The decision to create a Europe-wide carbon price was right but creates significant political risk. The good news is it can still be fixed. Energy costs and taxes are political dynamite, easily exploited by populist parties. And yet, the EU is set to introduce an economy-wide carbon price (ETS2) on … [continued]
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The Great Realignment: What Global Investors Must Know About China in 2025
The world is in the middle of a structural reset—one where global capital can no longer pretend geopolitics, climate, and industrial policy are background noise. From liquefied gas to lithium, from advanced chips to artificial intelligence, the foundations of the global economy are now strategic terrain. It’s in this moment—when … [continued]
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China Walks Away: U.S. LNG Expansion Plans Unravel as Trade War Escalates
China has just suspended all LNG imports from the United States. No warning, no phasedown, just an apparent state directive that Chinese buyers, including the national oil companies, were no longer to sign, lift, or receive U.S. liquefied natural gas. The decision comes in the wake of a rapidly escalating … [continued]
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Net-Zero by 2050: The IMO’s Victory—and the Case for Less Fuel, Not More
In April 2025, the International Maritime Organization did something rare for a UN body: it passed a binding climate policy. Not advisory, not aspirational, but actual mandatory rules. The agreement commits international shipping to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions “by or around 2050,” and despite the ambiguity of that phrasing, the … [continued]
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Grunge Meets Grid: How Pearl Jam’s Carbon Price Led Me to Battery ETFs
The world is electrifying at an accelerating pace, and while solar panels and wind turbines grab most of the headlines, the real power behind the transition lies buried in rocks and embedded in chemistry. Batteries and the critical minerals that go into them are the plumbing of the clean energy … [continued]
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