All articles by Oliver Gordon

Oliver Gordon

@OllieGordon88

Correspondent Oliver Gordon is a sustainability-focused multimedia journalist based in London. He has previously worked for Struggles From Below, Uxolo Development Finance, Proximo Infra, TXF News, City AM and Euromoney. Contact Ollie at: oliver.gordon [at] globaldata.com

Failing global climate policy ‘should combine carrot and stick’

A pioneering new study published in the journal Science has analysed the effectiveness of 1,500 climate policies documented in a…
World Cement: ‘There has to be a financial benefit for doing the right thing’

Houses, skyscrapers, dams, bridges – every variety of building and infrastructure – all rely on cement. This, however, poses a…
Exclusive: sodium batteries to disrupt energy storage market

Sodium-ion batteries are set to disrupt the LDES market within the next few years, according to new research – exclusively…
The science behind forest carbon credits is sound, finds new study

Forest-based carbon credits have had a rough couple of years. Numerous academic studies and media investigations have unearthed vastly inflated…
Hydrogen, carbon removal and grids on Breakthrough Energy’s 2024 agenda

At the 2015 UN climate conference that delivered the Paris Agreement, Bill Gates announced that a coalition of 28 high-net-worth…

Are solid-state batteries finally ready to live up to the hype?

People are slowly but surely embracing electric vehicles (EVs), but the pace of that transition still needs to accelerate for…
‘Carbon casting’: the low-hanging fruit of carbon removal

The sleepy, rustic state of Arkansas in the south-west of the US is not typically considered to be at the…
Iceland is closing the circle on geothermal

With the cataclysmic scenes emerging from Iceland recently, it is easy to see why the country’s original settlers coined it…
UK’s 2030 climate goals at risk – Climate Change Committee

Although the UK has a strong track record of climate action, having set a net-zero target as far back as…
Graphene is set to disrupt the EV battery market

With the global transition towards an electrified transportation system gathering pace, the search for the perfect EV battery – offering…