KSET News and Press, KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF From 12/21/22

Summary We expect to see 58 GW growth in the combined wind and solar market in Europe and 32 GW in the US in 2023. Global commercial CCS capacity that is operational or under development is set to grow by 44% this year to 244 million tonnes per annum. Hydrogen is still in its infanc...

Summary The adaptation and loss-and-damage topics cut straight to the scale and on-the-ground reality of climate-change impacts and the expense of addressing them. A draft of the US government’s Fifth Annual Climate Assessment found that the US, historically the biggest polluter,...

Summary As global warming worries approach critical mass, corporate bond investors expect issuers to be part of the solution. At the epicenter of the climate crisis are greenhouse gases (GHG), which all industries emit in one way or another. Most companies strive to shrink their emi...

Summary There are two meetings going on today - the G20 major economies meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali today and tomorrow (November 15 and 16), and the COP27, which focuses on climate change, running November 7-18 in Egypt. Crude oil prices initially rose early last week...

Summary US President Joe Biden inked the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law on August 16. This legislation will likely be transformative over the long term as it is the largest government-led investment in clean energy in US history. The US goal is to achieve a 50%-52% red...

Summary Avenues of investing aligned with megatrends are inherently predicated on visions of the future. But what makes thematic investing a lot more palatable than prophesizing, is that certain megatrends are already in motion. Thematic investors, therefore, need only observe...

Summary A coalition of 190 countries and companies had agreed to "phase down" coal power and end support for new plants. The African location is expected to put greater focus on the question of climate financing for historically marginalized communities and emerging markets. C...

Summary Over the past decade, more than 130 countries have pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The current need-based sentiment toward reembracing carbon-based fuels doesn’t mean that the energy transition effort is doomed. We believe there are many potential...

Summary Today, we face a new imperative: to balance energy security, transition and sustainability - to meet global demand for the fuels that drive our global economy, and to build the energy systems to redress climate change. Lesson one is that energy security and energy transiti...

Summary With no end in sight for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, energy markets around the world look forward nervously as winter approaches. The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act has set the trend for deep decarbonization of the whole economy as well as net zero in the US...