Natural gas producers, exporters and trading firms are banking on Asia – the world’s largest and fastest-growing power market – to drive gas demand growth over the coming decades. But while overall gas consumption in Asia will certainly expand from...
Russia has spent the past five months swallowing up ever bigger tracts of Ukrainian coal, lithium, and uranium in the Donbass. Yet Western politicians still cling to the belief that they will be able to tap these resources to repay Ukraine’s ever mounting pile of...
Market research firm BMI, a Fitch Solutions company, says thermal coal prices will remain stagnant owing to oversupply and weak demand. The company maintains its Newcastle thermal coal price forecast for this year at an average of $135/t. Prices, which...
The economic sanctions imposed against Russia for its war in Ukraine are likely to have broad consequences, including social and economic repercussions. Whether these sanctions have some kind of useful environmental “side-effect” depends not only upon their scale, but...
More than two years after climate negotiators first attempted to consign coal to history, the dirtiest fossil fuel is having a moment. Thanks to a combination of China’s energy insecurity — pushing Beijing back to trusted power sources — plus...