Chinese mineral export controls to spell shortages, long-term questions
Chinese mineral export controls to spell shortages, long-term questions
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The Elements of Sanctions Ripe for Reform
Economic statecraft, and sanctions in particular, are popular policy instruments because they promise to deliver leverage at someone else’s expense. Sanctions can create pressure by taking away something...
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Hear in-depth conversations with the world’s top energy and climate leaders from government, business, academia, and civil society.
COP29: A Veteran’s Account of the UN Process
The international climate negotiation process stands at a critical juncture. At the recent COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, nations struggled to find common ground on financial support and carbon...
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Energy & Environmental Policy Under Trump
July 17, 2017
Guest
Carol Browner
Former US EPA Administrator
From a promise to bring coal jobs back, to the decision to leave the Paris Agreement, to a budget proposal that cuts funding to environmental and climate programs across government agencies, U.S. climate and environment policy is facing significant shifts following the election of Donald Trump. The Environmental Protection Agency in particular finds itself a target of the new Administration’s efforts to roll back regulations that it claims stymie economic growth.
To gauge what some of these shifts will mean, Host Jason Bordoff speaks with Carol Browner, the longest serving United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator. They discuss:
- How the Trump Administration’s proposed budget cuts will impact EPA
- The effects of the Trump Administration’s agenda on climate change progress
- The role of local and state governments to combat climate change
- The outlook for fuel economy standards in the US
- Nuclear energy’s role in a low carbon transition
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Minimizing Damage as Mining for Critical Minerals Ramps Up
The clean energy transition has a dirty underside. To move away from fossil fuels and toward solar, wind, batteries, and other alternative sources of energy, we have to intensify mining operations for critical minerals like lithium, copper, and cobalt.
Inside the 2024 World Energy Outlook
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