A recent New York Times (NYT) article quoted Anthony Leiserowitz, the director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication calling the phrase “energy transition”, a “floating signifier”, going on to define this as “a blank term that you can fill with your own preferred definition.” Since MinEnergia talks about energy transition a lot and it seems to define current policy, this seems to be an important discussion.
BP recently published its annual Energy Outlook, its long-term forecasts of major energy-related variables. Among the major points is the oil major’s view of peak oil demand and peak gas demand.
I am just back from a major technology conference and I happened to read a Thomson Reuters study about downstream and technology. These got me thinking about the role of technology in “greening” the industry.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) designated nine additional conservation areas that will contribute to protect biodiversity and the supply of ecosystem services in different regions of the country.
Ecopetrol’s (NYSE: EC) environmental laboratory is developing a project with Unipaz.
On December 2, an environmental emergency was reported in the village of Sabanas del Rosario, in the municipality of Castilla La Nueva, Meta.
The country is advancing on the path to adapt to climate change goals to reduce its emissions by 51% and reduce black carbon by 40% in 2030.
Lunch was the Saturday-before-last, the day before COP26 began in Glasgow and just as the G20 were trying – and failing – to reach their own consensus on climate change. The university professor sitting next to me said “It’s not up to us anyway, is it? Only large companies and governments can do anything.” And the debate began…
The government announced the first RFP for the financing of environmental projects.
Local authorities of Puerto Boyaca denounced possible environmental liabilities in the fields that Mansarovar delivered to Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC). The NOC made a statement on this issue.
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