Why unsustainable fossil fuel use keeps growing

On 19 September I presented at the LSE Grantham Centre on "how global fossil fuel use became unsustainable, 1950-2017". The slides and notes from my presentation are here. And my guest post for the LSE Grantham Centre is here. "The shocking thing about the rate of fossil fuel consumption since 1991 – by which time the scientific evidence for climate change was clear – is how inexorably it has risen."

Tracking the corporate power in fossil fuel production and use

The Carbon Majors Report 2017, published last month, showed that 71% of all greenhouse gas emissions since 1988 can be traced back to just 100 fossil fuel producing companies. It’s a useful way of looking at the production half of the fossil fuels picture – and needs putting together with the other half: the companies that consume the fuels. More here (on the London Green Left blog).

The Paris climate agreement after Trump

The chorus disapproving Trump's damaging gesture - withdrawing from the Paris agreement - "should not obscure the fact that the international climate negotiations process [...] has been a monumental failure". See article published in Labour Briefing here.

Adversity and reform: Ukraine's gas market prospects

This Oxford Energy Insight looks at the rapid changes in the Ukrainian gas market over the last three years, and how it is likely to develop from here.

The long, troubled Russia-Ukraine gas marriage is over

"Whatever happens next, the long, troubled Russia-Ukraine gas marriage is over, and the lawyers are arguing about who gets what". See my article in the latest Oxford Energy forum here (scroll down to page 15).

Pavel Sheremet, Belarussian journalist

My tribute to my friend Pavel Sheremet, published on the Pensive Quill site.

Fossil fuel consumption outside the rich countries: research questions

A presentation on the history of fossil fuel consumption outside the rich countries, given at the World Ecology Network conference, 15-16 July 2016, Durham University, UK.

Azerbaijan's gas supply squeeze and the consequences for the "southern corridor"

My paper on Azerbaijan, published this week by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, downloadable here.

Looking back at 1917 from the post-Soviet period

This short paper, published on the LeftEast site, looks at how views of the Russian revolution have changed in the British labour and socialist movements. It was presented at a conference on “Twenty Five Years After the USSR” at the German Historical Institute, Moscow, on 10 June. It was also published here on the OpenLeft site in Russian.

Russia's gas transit across Ukraine after 2019

This Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Working Paper, written jointly with my colleague Katja Yafimava, looks at how Russian gas will be transported to Europe after the current transit contract with Naftogaz Ukrainy expires on 31 December 2019. It can be downloaded from the OIES web site here.

Natural gas: the Russia-Ukraine question

Reverse flow deliveries of gas to Ukraine have not ended Russian imports, but they have created price competition, I argued in this presentation on 14 October at the first Ukraine Gas Forum.

The global drivers of fossil fuel consumption. Is the IPCC looking at them the right way?

I gave this presentation at a seminar on "How fossil fuel consumption shapes the lives communities lead" on Thursday 1 October at UCL. Download here. (This is part of my research on the global history of fossil fuel consumption.)