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Shell’s recently published strategy outlines what new form the Anglo-Dutch major plans to take in order to prosper during the energy transition. [Gas in Transition, Volume 1, Issue 2]

DeSmog Jan 22, 2021 @ 05:41 Many of the world’s most polluting companies are being handed a “get out of jail free” card by being invited to shape a scaled-up offsetting market, campaigners claim. The Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets is due to publish its “roadmap for implementation” on Wednesday, four months after it was launched by former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, who is now a UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance. Carney’s group wants to hugely...

/EIN News/ -- London, April 15, 2021 ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC Virtual attendance and participation enabled for the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) Shareholders encouraged to vote in advance of the AGM, but voting is also enabled during the meeting Board requests support for energy sector’s first shareholder advisory vote on an energy transition strategy Today, Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”) posted notice of its AGM (the “Notice”), which can be viewed and downloaded from www.shell.c...

19 February 2021 The Clean Energy Regulator has unveiled a new initiative to improve the transparency of corporate carbon offset purchases, announcing it will publish a new annual Corporate Emissions Reduction Transparency report (CERT), that details the voluntary carbon offset measures undertaken by Australia’s largest emitters. The Clean Energy Regulator administers the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting scheme (NGERs), which collects and publishes annual emissions and energy consumpt...

Adamantem in exclusive talks to make Climate Friendly investment Save Share Australian private equity firm Adamantem Capital is preparing to follow global giant KKR’s lead and invest in the emerging carbon farming sector. It is understood Adamantem is in late-stage talks to acquire a stake in Climate Friendly, a Sydney-based consultancy that helps farmers, foresters and other landowners turn their properties into carbon farming businesses. Adamantem Capital founders Rob Koczkar and Anthony...

28 January 2021 Australia’s major emitters could soon have the opportunity to publish the details of carbon offsets they have purchased, alongside their annual greenhouse gas emissions, under a new proposal being considered by the Clean Energy Regulator. While few details about the proposed carbon offsets report are currently publicly available, it is understood that the Clean Energy Regulator will soon be launching a process of consultation on a new reporting scheme to allow corporate emitte...

Premium Content Big Oil Is Getting Serious About Carbon Capture By Irina Slav - Jan 07, 2021, 3:00 PM CST Five years ago, a handful of oil majors launched what they called the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative with the stated aim of accelerating the energy industrys response to climate change. One of the ways to do that was carbon capture, storage, and potential reuse. Now, five years later, Big Oil has little to show for it. Yet it is starting to take carbon capture seriously. In Decem...

6 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Oil companies such as BP and Shell are nurturing nature as a future revenue stream, betting on an expected rise in carbon credit prices as their fossil fuel profits ebb. A dense stand of small trees clear-cut approximately 10 years earlier is seen from the edge of Hersey Mountain Wilderness in New Hampton, New Hampshire, U.S., December 4, 2020. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz BP last year put $5 million into Finite Carbon, a company that connects forestry owners with comp...

Big carbon? Oil majors turn to nature to help plug revenue gap Dec. 13, 2020 05:10 am JST Jan. 13 | 03:02 pm JST LONDON The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. © Thomson Reuters 2020. ©2021 GPlusMedia Inc. Dec. 13, 2020 04:49 pm JST Of course there will be a disparity in the price of carbon credits. As much of the cost of each carbon-reducing project i...