Hydrogen: Essential Tool or Expensive Detour
Charles Nicholson
Hydrogen: Essential Tool or Expensive Detour
By Charles Nicholson·16 Jun 2026·10 min read
Sorting climate value from industrial ambition
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Who we are
Economist — competition, energy transition, and climate policy
Expertise
- · Carbon markets
- · Competition economics
- · Energy transition
- · Climate policy design
Education
- · MSc Economics of Energy, Climate Change & Sustainability — Barcelona School of Economics
Languages
- · English
Country
- · United Kingdom
Charles Nicholson is an economist with ten years’ consulting experience on competition matters, complemented by an academic focus on the energy transition and climate policy. He has advised on merger control, abuse of dominance, and damages — including at a leading competition economics consultancy and at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Articles by Charles
4 pieces published on Carbon Sense.
How the European Union Built the World's Largest Carbon Market
Charles Nicholson
How the European Union Built the World's Largest Carbon Market
By Charles Nicholson·11 Mar 2026·10 min read
From pilot programme to climate policy cornerstone
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The Orinoco Belt Tightens
Charles Nicholson · Andrew Wells
The Orinoco Belt Tightens
By Charles Nicholson, Andrew Wells·27 Jan 2026·16 min read
Venezuela's heavy crude and the narrowing climate margin
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The Social Cost of Carbon, and Why it is No Longer Counted
Charles Nicholson
The Social Cost of Carbon, and Why it is No Longer Counted
By Charles Nicholson·9 Dec 2025·7 min read
Treating it as zero cannot make it so
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