Fossil fuels

The U.S. Coast Guard provides a buffer between a 'kayaktivist' and Shell's Polar Pioneer oil rig

Limits on oil supply will raise prices but aid climate goals

Perspective / Actions aimed at slowing the expansion of oil supplies could, barrel for barrel, be as effective at reducing CO2 emissions as policies to limit oil consumption.

29 October 2015 / About Climate policy and Fossil fuels

Global emissions: new oil investments boost carbon lock-in

Journal article

6 October 2015 / About Fossil fuels and Mitigation

Workers take a break while sitting on a pile of steel wires

China’s economic slowdown: Good news for the environment?

SEI brief

1 October 2015 / About Fossil fuels and Renewables

Today’s oil drilling fuels tomorrow’s political and economic problems

Perspective / As Obama opens the Arctic for oil drilling, is he also making it harder for America to wean itself from its dependence on fossil fuels?

28 September 2015 / About Fossil fuels and Mitigation

An open-cut coal mine in the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia

Carbon lock-in from fossil fuel supply infrastructure

SEI brief

23 September 2015 / About Fossil fuels and Mitigation

Assessing carbon lock-in

Journal article

27 August 2015 / About Fossil fuels and Mitigation

Perverse effects of carbon markets on HFC-23 and SF6 abatement projects in Russia

Journal article / This article examines how the ability to generate additional Joint Implementation credits may have affected waste gas generation at chemical plants in Russia.

24 August 2015 / About Climate policy, Fossil fuels and Mitigation

The SEI Initiative on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change

SEI brief / The SEI Initiative on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change

6 July 2015 / About Fossil fuels

Leaving room for ‘green growth’: identifying near-term actions to avoid long-term carbon lock-in

SEI brief / Leaving room for ‘green growth’: identifying near-term actions to avoid long-term carbon lock-in

22 June 2015 / About Fossil fuels and Renewables