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  • What role can renewable energy and recycling play to help limit oil demand and contain global warming?

  • Will recycling and sustainable alternatives to oil be enough?

  • Renewables could make up 30% of the energy mix by 2050

  • With policies that encourage renewable energy and access to offshore winds, Denmark has become a leader in renewables

  • Sometimes there is no scalable alternative to oil

  • Air transport is responsible for about 2% of human-made CO2 but it is expected to grow

  • The growth in demand is expected to lead to a 200% increase in aeroplanes by 2050

  • Plastics rely on oil

  • Demand for plastics is expected to grow substantially in the next two decades

  • These single-use plastics degrade with recycling

  • Our analysts' view?

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About the author

Lydia Rainforth is a Managing Director in our Equity Research team with close to two decades experience in the energy sector. Lydia started at Barclays in 2009 where she joined the nascent European equity research team. Prior to this Ms Rainforth started her career covering Russian oil and gas companies at Lehman Brothers. The Global Energy team aims to provide industry leading and thought provoking research across the industry from the early stages of exploration through to the end retail business.

 

Lydia & team have a special interest in the development of renewable energy and the growing role of environmental, social and governance factors in investing. Ms Rainforth holds a first class honours degree from the University of Cambridge.

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