About S&P Global Commodity Insights

Powering the Markets

S&P Global Platts and IHS Markit ENR combine to become S&P Global Commodity Insights. S&P Global Commodity Insights brings together highly complementary capabilities to power the markets of the future.

Assessments & Benchmarks

We engage with market participants and evolve rigorous methodologies for assessments that reflect a commodity’s true value. Along with news and market commentary, our assessments help you make successful trading decisions.

Workflow Solutions

We partner with you to enhance workflows, increase efficiency and optimize business processes by leveraging AI-driven software and applications, integrated platforms and machine delivery.

Research & Insights

We develop deep, interconnected industry analysis and forecasts across the full energy and commodities value chain. Subscriptions to our market insights and analysis include access to subject matter experts.

Conferences & Advisory Solutions

We provide consulting services on current challenges such as renewables and energy transition, and host education sessions, webinars, and premier events like CERAWeek and Global Power Markets.

Together we are helping companies like yours with highly relevant information, expert analysis, and workflow solutions you need to maintain your competitive edge.

Listen: Hydrogen and the path towards decarbonization

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Mar 03, 2022

Hydrogen has received extraordinary policy support over the past year, with nations worldwide racing to publish national hydrogen strategies. These roadmaps provide a decade-long pathway to developing wide-scale utilization of low-carbon hydrogen as a means to achieving deep decarbonization in otherwise problematic sectors.

In this episode of the S&P Global Platts Future Energy podcast, our experts discuss the hurdles hydrogen still faces on the path towards a future fuel.

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Other Articles

Infographic: Insufficient lithium supply could decelerate energy transition

Mar 03, 2022

Lithium is a key raw material for electric vehicles and energy storage systems, but the lack of investment in new supply in previous years might generate a structural deficit throughout this decade, data from the expected supply versus expected demand (both until 2030) demonstrates.

Steel versus plastics: The race to sustainability

Mar 03, 2022

S&P Global Platts looks at the supply, demand, and price drivers of today’s growing recycled plastics market, as well as the opportunities and challenges of the plastics sector in a circular economy.

Oil Security Sentinel™

Mar 03, 2022

An interactive editorial project exploring the changing relationship between geopolitical risk and the price of crude. This analysis shows how diversity of supply, higher levels of global spare capacity and the expansion of strategic petroleum reserves have helped to insulate markets from the risk of supply disruptions in the Middle East and beyond.

Infographic: Russian invasion of Ukraine puts spotlight on security of oil, gas and commodities flows

Mar 03, 2022

Conflict in Ukraine following Russian troops launching attacks across international borders on Feb. 24, has already had a major impact on prices of key commodities from oil and gas through to steel and grains. Europe is heavily reliant on gas and Urals crude via the Druzhba pipeline to refiners across the region.

Reckoning with renewables: As carbon certifiers tighten rules, renewable energy may re-evaluate options

Mar 03, 2022

Amid a growing collection of corporate net-zero claims and growing evidence of the devastating consequences of climate change, there has been increasing focus on voluntary carbon credit projects that claim to either reduce, avoid or remove greenhouse gas emissions.

ANZ bank takes minority stake in energy transition focused advisory firm Pollination

Mar 03, 2022

Australian banking and financial services company ANZ will invest US$50 million for a minority equity stake in Pollination, an Australia-based investment and advisory firm focused on climate change, they said in a joint statement Feb. 16, adding that the partnership aims to drive the transition to net-zero and support biodiversity.

Banks seeking to finalize framework for steel decarbonization in Q2

Mar 03, 2022

A group of banks including ING, Citi and Goldman Sachs, plan to finalize a framework for lending to support the global steel industry's decarbonization efforts during the second quarter, following further dialogue with stakeholders including steel companies and industry groups.

ExxonMobil urges financiers to push for carbo pricing, low-carbon incentive policies

Mar 03, 2022

The vice president of ExxonMobil's new low-emission technology business called on financiers to join the energy industry in pushing for policies that incentivize investments in low carbon developments, especially policies that would introduce carbon pricing.

Breaking barriers to accelerate energy transition

Mar 03, 2022

Our new special report looks at how energy and commodity markets are responding to the decarbonization challenge, from oil to marine fuels to battery metals and petrochemicals.

Atlas of Energy Transition™

Mar 03, 2022

Navigating a pathway to a low-carbon global economy requires a new plan. The S&P Global Platts Atlas of Energy Transition™, produced in collaboration with S&P Global Market Intelligence, is your map to the sustainable commodity markets of the future.

Pressure builds on oil, gas funding as HSBC rolls out net-zero lending targets

Mar 02, 2022

HSBC laid out plans Feb. 22 to cut its lending to oil and gas clients based on their carbon emissions as the UK bank looks to align its loan portfolio with the International Energy Agency's landmark scenario for hitting net-zero by 2050.

Financial Sector Case Studies

Mar 02, 2022

By working closely with our customers for more than a century, S&P Global Platts has become one of the most respected sources of relevant, independent pricing information, insights and analysis in the global energy and commodity markets. Download the brochure and see examples of our work with financial institutions around the world.

Watch: The Role of Energy Markets in Investor Commitments to Decarbonization

Mar 02, 2022

Lauren Smart, Managing Director and Global Head of ESG Commercial for S&P Global Platts Market Intelligence sat down with Gordon Bennett, Managing Director of Utility Markets at the Intercontinental Exchange to talk about ESG the energy transition, hedging, decarbonization, and much more.

Understanding Voluntary Carbon Markets

Mar 02, 2022

Trade in voluntary carbon credits is rising as companies look to offset their emissions. Silvia Favasuli and Vandana Sebastian explain how the market works, key players and pricing principles.

Factbox: As SWIFT ban hits banks, spotlight turns on how Russia sells its oil

Mar 02, 2022

Concern is growing over the impact that a ban announced Feb. 26 on Russian banks using the SWIFT international payment system could have on the trading of Urals crude oil.

Singapore announces larger-than-expected carbon tax to fund long-term decarbonization

Mar 02, 2022

Singapore will raise its carbon tax to S$25/mt ($18.60) of CO2 equivalent in 2024 and 2025, from S$5/mtCO2e ($3.7), to finance its decarbonization efforts, create a regional carbon marketplace and bring forward its net zero emissions deadline, the government said Feb. 18.