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Energy Explained
Get the latest as our experts share their insights on global energy policy.
Assessing the Energy Impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
This special CGEP blog series, featuring six contributions from CGEP scholars, analyzes the potential impacts of the OBBBA across a range of sectors.
Blog
by Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh, Anne-Sophie Corbeau, Tom Moerenhout, Matt Bowen, Ashley Finan & Noah Kaufman • July 14, 2025
Podcasts
Hear in-depth conversations with the world’s top energy and climate leaders from government, business, academia, and civil society.
Climate Shocks Are Redefining Energy Security
Many parts of the US have experienced brutal, deadly heat in recent weeks—and there’s plenty of summer left. Intense rainfall, made more likely by warming, dropped more than...
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Relevant Articles
Energy Abundance Alone Won’t Fix the Climate
Energy abundance isn't a climate strategy—it delays clean energy progress, harms global cooperation, and repeats past policy mistakes.
Greenland: the reality behind the hype
The Arctic island is in the spotlight as a strategic economy, but has little to show for it so far
Curtailing Fugitive Methane Emissions Amid a Potential US Regulatory Rollback
Fugitive methane emissions from the energy sector have become frontpage news over the last five years. Both the US and EU have developed legislative strategies to combat methane leaks from oil and gas systems.
How New European Rules Advance the Global Methane Pledge
In December 2021, the European Commission published a legislative proposal aimed at reducing methane emissions in the energy sector.
Prospects for EU Extraterritorial Reduction of Methane Emissions from Its Natural Gas Supply
A new commentary explores the changes in the European Union's natural gas market in 2022 and the European Commission’s proposed methane emission regulations.
Russia Crimps Gas Flows Just as Europe Races to Stock Up for Winter
News and Publications
with Tim Boersma • Via The New York Times
• June 23, 2022
ESG Investing and the US Oil and Gas Industry: An Analysis of Climate Disclosures
As climate change continues to unfold around the globe, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns are increasingly driving investment decisions. This is especially true for investors in the oil and gas sector, which accounts for an outsized share of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
