US To Stockpile Cobalt For First Time In Decades, Columbia Study Sees Risks
US Defense Dept seeking to buy cobalt for first time in decades to stabilize supply chains. Up to 7,500 tons worth $500M being sought from 3 companies.
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Bill Loveless talks with Richard Nephew, a Senior Research Scholar at CGEP and the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, on a new episode of Columbia Energy Exchange. Richard is the author of a new book from Columbia University Press, The Art of Sanctions: A View From the Field, which outlines key concepts and guidelines for developing sanctions and interpreting targets’ responses to them.
Among many topics Bill and Richard discuss, several include: insights from Richard’s new book and how to effectively design and employ sanctions; the future of the Iran Nuclear Deal; whether U.S. sanctions on North Korea are working; how energy interests factor in to U.S. sanctions policy; and the outlook for future sanctions on Russia.
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Despite producing little natural gas, the EU could become the most powerful entity in global gas markets in the decades to come.
But there is a better way to fix it.
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