
Seb Henbest
@sebhenbest
Group Head of Climate Transition at HSBC
formerly Chief Economist at BloombergNEF
(opinions are my own)
ID: 239568469
17-01-2011 22:55:13
20,20K Tweet
7,7K Followers
2,2K Following


President Putin exercises power through non-state actors -- mercenaries, hackers...We need to pay more attention to asymmetric power moves, not just nation states, says Hillary Clinton at #NewEconomyForum


U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says investment banks including Goldman and Morgan Stanley are ready to invest $4.16 trillion in the energy transition over the next decade. "We have to find a way to deploy that money," he says. trib.al/FR09IWa #NewEconomyForum




The Chinese are moving to secure their supply chains. The US is moving to secure theirs. But US should bring in friends, allies and partners, not just bring it all back home, says Office of Kevin Rudd, 26th PM of Australia at #NewEconomyForum





Having to pay for fuel now makes power plants less economically competitive. M'colleague Kobad Bhavnagri argues that the same will ultimately happen with hydrogen and "green" H2 made from renewable power will structurally undercut "blue" H2 made from natural gas. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The BloombergNEF Energy Transition Investment Trends report is out! Top-line finding is that the world spent $755 billion last year to deploy low-carbon tech, including renewables, storage, EVs, heat pumps and others. about.bnef.com/blog/global-in…


Thread: How the world got to $755 billion in energy transition investment in a single year. BloombergNEF did the math. 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…



I've got a podcast for your commute! Check it out. It's a discussion about net-zero emissions pathways and how to think about and design long-term climate scenarios in BloombergNEF's New Energy Outlook. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how…



Here's Seb Henbest explaining it once more. x.com/SebHenbest/sta…