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The Plastic Storm: Ocean Plastic Waste Brewing Tidal Wave of Consumer Activism and Increased Industry Uncertainty, IHS Markit Says

Rapidly changing consumer expectations for plastics and increasing regulations or bans creating market challenges and disconnects for producers   HOUSTON (October 8, 2018) –The growing global plastics sustainability movement is one of the biggest potential disruptors for the plastics industry and is putting future plastics resin demand and billions of dollars of industry investments at …

Paris, We Have a Problem: World’s Largest Economies Not Getting Policy Mix Right to Avoid Worst of Climate Change, IHS Markit Says

Carbon-pricing mechanisms, including carbon taxes and emission trading systems, are falling well short of levels needed to achieve low-emission targets HOUSTON (September 24, 2018) – Despite potentially game-changing shifts in energy use and supply patterns during the coming decades, the world may not be able to reach a sufficiently low emissions pathway by 2050 to …

Energy Storage Outlook Strengthens as Cumulative Installed Base to Reach 52 Gigawatts in 2025 From Under Four GW Installed Today, Says IHS Markit

Julian Jansen, senior analyst, solar and energy storage, IHS Markit   In 2016, 1.3 gigawatt (GW) of grid-connected energy storage was deployed, which will grow to 4.7 GW in 2020 and 8.8 GW in 2025. The grid-connected energy storage market is projected to grow from annual revenues of $1.5 billion in 2016 to more than …