Oil and gas are a 'subprime carbon bubble' worth $22 trillion: Al Gore
Being caught wrongfooted on the transition to renewable energy will be a painful blunder for investors. In fact, the traditional fossil-fuel market is forming a bubble that will hurt the most vulnerable companies, former Vice President Al Gore said at the Glasgow climate summit Wednesday.
We now have a subprime carbon bubble of $22 trillion, based on an absurd assumption that all of those carbon fuels are going to be burned, Gore said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. Theyre not going to be, especially because the new renewable sources of electricity are much cheaper now.
Gore, who is chairman of Generation Investment Management LLP, said once the risks are internalized, then its going to affect the value of all these assets.
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I think were in the early stages of a sustainability revolution thats the biggest opportunity in history, the creator of the 2006 climate documentary An Inconvenient Truth told Bloomberg. And those who dont recognize that and adapt to it are in commercial risk. Theyre going to be left behind.
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