Shedding Light on Energy's Dirty Secrets
This week’s episode of Cleaning Up is with Lauri Myllyvirta, co-founder and lead analyst at CREA - the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air in Helsinki.
This week’s episode of Cleaning Up is with Lauri Myllyvirta, co-founder and lead analyst at CREA - the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air in Helsinki.
Lauri is one of the unsung heroes of the clean energy transition. He and his team mine for information all over the web - data on energy, air quality, commodities, economic activity, freight movements, etc - in all sorts of places, in multiple languages, and turn it into actionable insight.
I first came across Lauri when he was working for Greenpeace in Beijing, using air quality data, not just to shine a light on the catastrophic pollution plaguing China at that time, but also to identify developments in energy long before others spotted them. Since then he set up CREA in Helsinki, and uses the same approach to drive understanding of the clean energy transition in India, South Africa, South Asia and other geographies.
And then, after Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Lauri started producing and publishing the definitive registry of Russian oil and gas exports to help inform the sanctions process.
As you will hear if you listen to or watch the episode, he does all this with supreme moral clarity, intensity and humility. Lauri, thanks for being you!
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