Commodity Reports
Agriculture & Softs Reports > Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment
Geneva, 14 May 2013
A new book edited by UNCTAD and the International Labour Organization (ILO) stresses that agricultural trade can be an opportunity for creating jobs and alleviating poverty around the world. Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment was released today. The book, which resulted from research coordinated by UNCTAD and the ILO and financed by the European Union, urges that higher policy priority be given to farming. It is based on a collaboration between UNCTAD and the ILO, as well as on a technical cooperation project entitled, “Assessing and addressing the effects of trade and employment,” managed jointly by the European Commission and the ILO.
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Commodity Research and Reports > Survey finds investors positioning for China slowdown and low inflation
London, 14 May 2013
Investors are positioning themselves for slower growth in China and prolonged low inflation – sending commodities allocations to a four-year low, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for May. A quarter of the respondents to May’s survey say that a hard landing in China and a commodity collapse is their number one “tail risk”, an increase from 18 percent in April. A net 8 percent of fund managers in Japan, Asia-Pacific Rim and Global Emerging Markets expect China’s economy to weaken over the next 12 months, compared with a net 9 percent saying it would strengthen a month ago.
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Power & Energy Commodity Reports > Medium-Term Oil Market Report 2013
London, May 2013
The global oil market will undergo sweeping changes over the next five years. The 2013 Medium-Term Oil Market Report evaluates the impact of these changes on the global oil system by 2018 based on all that we know today - current expectations of economic growth, existing or announced policies and regulations, commercially proven technologies, field decline rates, investment programmes (upstream, midstream and downstream), etc. The five-year forecast period corresponds to the length of the typical investment cycle and as such is critical to policymakers and market participants.
Environmental Markets & Commodities Reports > A ‘Lost Decade’ of EU Climate Policy: Report
London, May 2013
European policymakers must urgently send a clear policy signal to power sector investors, or risk a 'lost decade' in which the European economy fails to reduce carbon emissions and piles up costs for future delayed reductions. This is the key conclusion of a major new EURELECTRIC study: Power Choices Reloaded.
Power & Energy Commodity Reports > Rock steady: A special report on coal demand
Global demand for coal remains resilient, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit. Coal, once dubbed the "mundane mineral", is proving to be a surprisingly dynamic commodity. A new report from The Economist Intelligence Unit shows that governments' high-minded efforts will slow coal's progress but not reverse it.
Environmental Markets & Commodities Reports > CO2 level crosses milestone at Hawaii site
Washington, May 2013
The amount of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere topped 400 parts per million at a key observing station in Hawaii for the first time since measurement began in 1958, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Friday. To many scientists, crossing the 400 ppm threshold, which means that there are 400 molecules of carbon dioxide for every million molecules in the air, is a bit like the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising above 15,000 points.
Power & Energy Commodity Reports > Greatest Challenges Facing European Nuclear
London, 9 May 2013
High capital costs and maintaining public confidence are seen as the greatest challenges facing the European nuclear power industry, according to a recent survey conducted by Platts, a leading global energy, petrochemical and metals information provider. The survey included more than 100 utilities, builders, consultancies, and regulators in Europe and precedes the eighth annual Platts European Nuclear Power Conference set for June 26-27 in Warsaw, Poland.
Environmental Markets & Commodities Reports > EU 2020 target unlikely to be met
London, May 2013
The continued slow pace of new investments in renewable energy around the world seen in Q1 this year, masks some strong signals of support according to the quarterly report from Rabobank. In the US, the role shale gas production will play in the energy mix may dominate the agenda of the new administration, but there remains a clear commitment to renewable projects.
Commodity Research and Reports > The political economy of structural reform in the BRIC
The BRIC economies, like most other economies in the world, experienced a slowdown in 2011-12. The bears are worrying that this slowdown might contain a significant structural component. These concerns seem somewhat overdone - Deutsche Bank Research.
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Technology & Commodity Reports > Drilling Technology Unlocking Oil US Reserves
Washington DC, 6 May 2013
The U.S. government's recent assessment of recoverable oil and natural gas in the Bakken and Three Forks formations reinforces what industry has learned. New technology is unlocking vast resources unreachable even a few years ago, Continental Resources President Rick Bott said Sunday on Platts Energy Week, an all-energy news and talk television program.
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