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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 …

2017 Global PV Installation Forecast Raised to 90 GW as Demand Booms in China, Says IHS Markit

By Josefin Berg, research manager, solar & energy storage research group at IHS Markit Key Takeaways IHS Markit has raised its forecast for global PV installations in 2017, now predicting 90 GW – a 14 percent increase from 2016. The biggest changes are seen in China, now predicted to install 45 GW in 2017. The …

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 …