Climate and energy transition campaigners are softening their language and avoiding confrontation when they should be increasing their ambition and vigorously delivering messages that are proven to work.

While the Trump administration has embroiled itself in multiple military conflicts in pursuit of an “energy dominance” based on the fuels that are getting rapidly phased out, China is seizing the opportunity to dominate in the energy transition solutions that are displacing them.

Four recent reports detail how the energy transition is continuing to accelerate, with wind and solar utterly dominating new generation capacity, electrification expanding, and fossil fuels getting phased out.

There’s a new wave of chatter and press coverage about carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. But not because it’s now a real climate solution.

Global oil inventories are approaching critically low levels, while oil prices remain remarkably modest. So what gives? We examine the data in search of a clue to what happens next.

One of the most illuminating ways of understanding what needs to be done is to think about how individual countries can navigate their own “mid-transitions.”