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Every permitting bill promises the same thing: build faster. The harder question is what the trade-offs are, and who bears them. That question is at the heart of...
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The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and ReNew invite you to Columbia India Energy Dialogue 2026, taking place...
Energy markets are in transition. The oil market is in the midst of one of its steepest price collapses in history, the first-ever shipment of US LNG from the lower 48 recently set sail, renewable costs are falling dramatically and nearly 200 nations came together in Paris to agree to change the energy mix as we know it. On top of these changes the global economic outlook is as uncertain as ever. How are we to make sense of all these changes and what they mean for the future of the energy landscape? To help answer that question, host Jason Bordoff sat down with Christof Ruhl, Global Head of Research at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, on the latest episode of Columbia Energy Exchange.
This interview was originally recorded on February 21, 2016.
Every permitting bill promises the same thing: build faster. The harder question is what the trade-offs are, and who bears them. That question is at the heart of...
After years of trying, the US may be on the cusp of a nuclear renaissance. Commercial nuclear generation began in this country in 1958. Today, the US has...
Permitting reform—to allow for faster approvals on new projects—is one thing that both climate advocates and energy developers have wanted for a long time. With demand for power...
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Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has reduced the supply of oil, refined fuels and liquefied natural gas (LNG), reviving fears that Europe could face its second severe energy crisis in five years.
Tatiana Mitrova, a fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and former energy scholar at Moscow’s Russian Academy of Sciences, and Sergey Vakulenko, an oil and gas expert at Carnegie’s Russia Eurasia Center, argue that Russia and Ukraine are locked in an energy war that has become an adaptation spiral, despite growing human and economic costs and despite current US pressure on Ukraine. They observe Ukraine’s remarkable ability to withstand Russian strikes, while questioning claims that long-range Ukrainian strikes will be able to achieve game-changing damage on Russia. Ukraine and Russia have transformed the role of energy warfare in modern conflict, drawing on low costs drones but also new forms of technological resilience that are likely to make wars longer and more dangerous.
