COP 21 and the implications for energy

This issue of Oxford Energy Forum (OEF) looks at the Paris Agreement (which came out of COP21 – the 21st Conference of Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) along with its implications for individual energy sources, for particular countries and regions, and for specific policy areas. Perhaps most striking is the range of views contained in the articles here and the disparity of impacts as between different sources, countries, and policy areas. Whereas in the last issue of OEF (where the focus was on electricity), there was much emphasis on the fundamental changes the industry is undergoing as a result of the rapid growth of low-carbon sources, and the similarity of the challenges in different parts of the world, the emphasis in this issue is on diversity. …