Kuwait looks to the cloud as power grid feels the strain
Kuwait has invited bids to construct three power substations that will supply electricity to Google Cloud data storage centres
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Past Event
September 24, 2014
4:30 am - 6:00 am
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy for a presentation and discussion on the trends and drivers of global energy investment today and in the future. Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Nobel Laureate, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Director-General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India, will offer keynote remarks. Amb. Carlos Pascual, Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy and former Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, U.S. State Department, will then moderate a discussion with Dr. Pachauri as well as additional participants, including:
– Michael Eckhart, Managing Director and Global Head of Environmental Finance and Sustainability, Citigroup;
– Ted Roosevelt IV, Managing Director & Chairman of Cleantech Initiative, Barclays
Registration is required for in-person attendance. It will also be livestreamed at: http://energypolicy.columbia.edu/watch (no registration necessary for livestream viewing).
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While various efforts continue to be made to estimate fashion’s environmental footprint, major gaps remain in how to decarbonize material production and reshape business practices.
Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.
On November 6, 2025, in the lead-up to the annual UN Conference of the Parties (COP30), the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA convened a roundtable on project-based carbon credit markets (PCCMs) in São Paulo, Brazil—a country that both hosted this year’s COP and is well-positioned to shape the next phase of global carbon markets by leveraging its experience in nature-based solutions.
Connecticut needs an honest debate, and fresh thinking, to shape a climate strategy fit for today, not 2022.