World Bank scraps climate financing after facing pressure from Trump
The 45% target was set following the United Nations’ climate conference in 2023, pledging the funding to climate-related projects by 2025.
Past Event
November 20, 2015
4:30 am - 5:45 am
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) for a presentation and discussion on the US energy outlook with Adam Sieminski, Administrator, Energy Information Administration (EIA). Mr. Sieminski will present on the state of energy markets, identifying how current conditions in the marketplace affect long-term projections of US energy supply, demand and prices through 2040. Antoine Halff, CGEP Senior Fellow and Director, Global Oil Markets Program, will moderate the discussion with Mr. Sieminski. Registration is required. This event is open to press. It will also be livestreamed at: energypolicy.columbia.edu/watch A podcast of this event (in addition to other past Center events) will be available ~5 days after the date of the event through iTunes or via our website. For more information contact: [email protected]
This event will take place in-person in Washington DC, at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2168 (Gold Room). Advance registration is required. Announcing New Columbia University Publications...
More than a month into the Iran conflict, the United States and Iran are at a critical inflection point.
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran, resulting in the deaths of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei and senior Iranian leaders...
Join the NYU SPS Center for Global Affairs, the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA Women in Energy Initiative (WIE), and the NYU SPS Energy,...
Two economic planning documents released at the March meeting of China's National People’s Congress include the term "energy powerhouse" for the first time.
Within days of the initial U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, the world was plunged into an energy crisis.
The war in Iran is not just another energy shock. It is arriving at a moment when Europe is already under cumulative strain: a war on its eastern border, the lingering aftershocks of the 2022 energy crisis, industrial decline, political fragmentation, fiscal limits, and a widening debate over how much of its own security it must now provide.