Articles tagged: "CERA"

1: "Oil as the New Gold": CERA Comments on the New Fundamentals of Oil and Record High Prices

Credit crisis, global financial dynamics and new cost structures, more than demand and supply, are now driving record high oil prices. Will a spreading recession reverse oil 's rise?

2: Climate Change and Energy are Converging into New Era of Clean Energy

Entering a period of "great bubbling" driven by innovation across the energy spectrum.

3: The Bali Road Map - Building a Global Climate Policy

How should the international community manage the risks of global climate change? Diplomats from 187 nations faced this question in December at the United Nations' climate conference in Bali, Indonesia. Their answer was a two-year plan for negotiating a new global climate policy that would start in 2013 - the year the Kyoto Protocol ends.

4: Global 4.5% Oil Production Decline Rate Means No Near-Term Peak

There is no evidence that oilfield decline rates will increase suddenly. It is important, though, to continue to research and understand evolving decline trends and further develop insight into the declines.

5: Will Clean Energy "Cross the Divide?"

Fossil fuels provide most of the world 's energy and are the foundation of the past two centuries of economic growth. The issue of climate change poses the first serious challenge to fossil fuels' primacy.

6: Ten Times Ten: What Future for Oil Prices?

Oil prices are fluctuating in line with the latest economic signals - up and down. This will continue until a clearer view of economic growth materializes.

7: The Future of World Oil Supply - Filling the Missing Link

The decline rate is a key link in the chain of factors needed to understand the future of the world oil supply.

8: Commentary: Yergin Sees Clear Road Ahead For More Fuel-Efficient Cars

The road is getting much clearer. This week, legislation will emerge from committee, and almost certainly soon head to the floor of the U.S. Senate. It might not get that much notice in itself, but it ought to, because it tells you how much has changed on energy issues. And, given its probable

9: Closing The Conservation Gap In Electric Power

Today, as U.S. electric power demand grows and environmental and energy security issues become more urgent, there is a growing concern that the current balance encourages the construction of new power plants rather than investment in the conservation of electric power. This subject is coming to

10: The Future Of Electricity-Center Of Gravity Shifting To Asia

The global electric power landscape is changing fast, and increasingly, the action in it has been shifting to Asia. On average, in each of the last three years, China alone has added as much new generating capacity as all of existing capacity in Texas. The shift to Asia will continue. CERA 's Da

11: Security, Climate And Technology

The world today depends on fossil fuels to meet over 80 percent of its energy needs, a simple fact of the way the industrial world has grown up. But dependence brings with it major challenges: rising demand because of economic growth and new consumers; the global distribution of resources; grow

12: Renewable Electric Power Takes Off

Renewable electric power is beginning to soar. The current surge of activity, which has been accelerating over the last few years, is driven by several factors: high fuel prices; ongoing improvements in renewable power technologies; and increasing political support, which grows out of concern a

13: Will Innovation Transform Energy?

Something big is going on throughout the energy business. It 's a great bubbling of innovation in every part of the industry. This bubbling is the brew of many different ingredients-from the impact of high prices and geopolitical uncertainty to the growing focus on "clean tech" and climate chan

14: A Double Bubble Drives Rising Oil Production Costs

The dramatic run-up in oil prices in recent years has been the subject of much attention and many headlines. What has received far less attention is another increase: the parallel rise in the costs of drilling for oil and building the infrastructure necessary to pump it out of the ground. This

15: How Different Will Tomorrow Be? Thinking About The Energy Future

The energy business has one of the longest timelines of any industry. Decisions are being made today for oil or natural gas fields that will only begin to flow fifteen years from now. A power plant approved tomorrow may be operating for half a century. And, increasingly, many of the big decisio

16: A Changing Policy Climate

What a difference a year can make. In twelve months the center of gravity has strikingly shifted in the debate over U.S. climate change policy. Eleven states have developed mandatory greenhouse gas limits. More corporations are calling for federal policy. And numerous studies and media stories,

17: A Great Bubbling: Economics Of Oil Prices

The world will never be quite the same. High oil prices are not only changing the political and economic landscapes but they could also change energy itself, because they are stimulating the most widespread drive for technological innovation this sector has ever seen. The political shifts are s