Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Decarbonization by the Numbers (with Michele Della Vigna)

Oct 27, 2021

43:35

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The Key Limits of Capital Markets

02:09

The Role of the Markets in Supporting Carbon Pricing

03:43

Carbon Pricing and the Domestic Redistribution Challenge

03:32

Introduction

2min

Carbonomics

3min

The Capital Market, the Consumer and Global Politics

3min

The Key Limits of Capital Markets

2min

Carbon Pricing and Border Adjustment

3min

Carbon Pricing and the Domestic Redistribution Challenge

4min

How to Decarbonize the Oil and Gas Industry

3min

Towards a Fordable Zero

2min

Is There a Chance That Nuclear Is Not Growing Significantly?

2min

10.

Is It a Hard Intra Structure Shift or a Soft One?

4min

11.

Decarbonization Regulation - The Mist Opportunity

2min

12.

Is the Cost of Renewable Power Declining?

2min

13.

Is There a Carbonized Industry?

2min

14.

Are We Going to Have a Zero Carbon Economy?

3min

15.

The Role of the Markets in Supporting Carbon Pricing

4min

16.

Cop 26 - What Are the Big Commitments?

4min

The transition to a greener economy is absolutely essential for the future of life as we know it. Governments and companies have committed to net-zero emissions by 2050, but it’s not clear how they plan to get there – or how much it will cost. Today’s guest, though, has some idea.

Michele Della Vigna runs the Carbonomics research program at Goldman Sachs, which looks at the economics behind a transition to net-zero emissions. On the eve of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), Michele joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the importance of carbon pricing, market pressure, and new technology in accelerating a shift to net-zero.

They also discuss:

Why the American consumer makes carbon taxes trickier.
The role of oil majors in the shift to renewables.
How corporate commitments to decarbonize could surprise at COP26.

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Further resources:

Funding Innovation to Fight Climate Change (with Dawn Lippert, Elemental Excelerator), Exponential View Podcast, 2021
‘Carbonomics: Five Themes of Progress for COP26’ – Goldman Sachs Research

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