Jeremy Leggett, Author at Renew Economy

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Carbon war can be won, but it’s a race against time
Both the clean energy revolution and global warming are capable of accelerating. This is essentially the tale of a race against time.
Jeremy Leggett

Nov 30, 2016

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Policy & Planning

Paris deal, rapid transition means deepening doldrums for energy incumbents
The great global race against time has very much begun now. The US and China ratify Paris deal, capital flow shift, China cancels nuclear plant and even conservative press hails transition to sun, wind and water within a generation.
Jeremy Leggett

Sep 5, 2016

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Just add another few billion pounds: UK’s nuclear energy fiasco
Imagine being responsible for the balance sheet of the company driving the nuclear fiasco slowing deployment of green energy in the UK..
Jeremy Leggett

Jun 6, 2016

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“State of transition” Oil oversupply, shale bankruptcies, gas leaks, and a whiff of securities fraud
The great global energy transition will play out in countless small dramas. But reminders of the over-arching global narrative, that we are in a race against time, are remorseless.
Jeremy Leggett

Feb 2, 2016

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Fracking’s mythology is single biggest threat to solar revolution
The vehemence of the incumbency’s rearguard action is so daunting that one wonders if Big Energy can delay the solar revolution for years, or even derail it.
Jeremy Leggett

Nov 10, 2014

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The economic case against fossil fuel
Social entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett questions the wisdom of continuing to invest in oil and gas, and makes the economic argument for switching to solar energy.
Jeremy Leggett

Jul 16, 2014

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Why governments are blind to fossil fuel energy risk
Humans are capable of mass collective blindness to risk. Having courted economic Armageddon in the financial sector, might we repeat the trick in energy?
Jeremy Leggett

Sep 26, 2013

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50 Months: The climate clock is ticking. Normal isn’t working
Investors continue to pile into carbon fuels because we allow companies to account coal, oil and gas as assets at zero risk of impairment.
Jeremy Leggett

Oct 3, 2012

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