Trump, China and 300 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil
As the US powers ahead with its plans to recover Latin America’s ‘oil El Dorado’, we explore Venezuela’s environmental and geopolitical outlook
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Past Event
October 18, 2017
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The Center on Global Energy Policy’s Women in Energy program and Greenhome NYC hosted a “Women of Green” forum. Our panel of experts took the stage to talk about the myriad paths that lead them to where they are now in the sustainable field. The presentations were Pecha Kucha format, where each presenter was allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds – that’s six minutes and forty seconds of fast-paced enlightenment before the next presenter was up!
Speakers included:
– Jacquie Ottman, We Hate to Waste & J. Ottman Consulting
– Sharon Brind, North American Passive House
– Lucie Dupas, Entersolar
– Elizabeth Shepard, Green City Force
– Andrea Mancino, Bright Power
– Laura Tajima, Mayor’s Office of Sustainbility
– Allison Kling, ConEd
– Katie Schwamb, Steven Winter Associates
The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA is pleased to host a virtual webinar with experts from Kenya, India, and Brazil to discuss and better understand the landscape...
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The recent military operation to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores raises several implications for the future of Venezuela and Latin America, geopolitics, and energy markets. Cosponsored by SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP) and Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP), along with Columbia’s Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), this webinar will analyze the circumstances and impact of their capture and extradition to New York to face narcoterrorism and drug trafficking charges.
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Venezuela holds 70% of Latin America's natural gas reserves, which it could export to Colombia and Trinidad to increase revenues.
Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.
The US intervention in Venezuela may jeopardize both the flow of discounted Venezuelan oil to China's teapot refineries and the role of Chinese oil companies in Venezuela’s upstream business.