Event Recording
June 20, 2016

2016 Medium-Term Gas Market Report (6/20/16)

The Center on Global Energy Policy hosted a presentation and discussion of the 2016 Medium-Term Gas Market Report. Ms. Costanza Jacazio, Senior Gas Expert in the Gas, Coal and Power Division at the International Energy Agency presented the report...
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Report
June 20, 2016

Some future scenarios of Russian natural gas in Europe

This study contains a number of scenario studies to assess the share of Russian natural gas in the European natural gas mix going forward. The authors conclude that remarkable little changes in the European natural gas mix in the scenarios under study, and that absent very drastic policy interventions Russian natural gas will continue to play a prominent role in the EU.
Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast
June 20, 2016

7th Annual Clean Energy Ministerial

Seven years ago, David Sandalow pitched an idea that’s turned into one of the biggest international gatherings on clean energy. While an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy, Sandalow proposed to then-Energy Secretary Steven Chu...
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David Sandalow, CGEP Inaugural Fellow, on 7th Annual Clean Energy Ministerial (6/20/16)

Seven years ago, David Sandalow pitched an idea that’s turned into one of the biggest international gatherings on clean energy. While an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy, Sandalow proposed to then-Energy Secretary Steven Chu...
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Op-ed
June 15, 2016

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: A Policy Response to Oil Price Volatility?

Writing on CFR's Energy, Security, and Climate blog, Founding Director Jason Bordoff discusses why the United States should only use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in infrequent circumstances to protect the U.S. economy from major supply disruptions around the world.
Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast
June 13, 2016

Geopolitics of Energy

Ever since the industrial revolution, energy has been fundamental to national security, geopolitics, and positions of power in the world. Today is no exception. Russian adventurism in Ukraine; the fight against ISIS and the conflict in Syria;...
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Sir John Scarlett, Former Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6, on the Geopolitics of Energy (6/13/16)

Ever since the industrial revolution, energy has been fundamental to national security, geopolitics, and positions of power in the world. Today is no exception. Russian adventurism in Ukraine; the fight against ISIS and the conflict in Syria;...
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Op-ed
June 08, 2016

How 3-D Printing Could Decrease Carbon Emissions. Or Maybe Increase Them.

While it has been around for many years to produce crude prototypes, 3-D printing is now being used to make everything from jet engines and complex machine parts to bridges and buildings, artificial limbs and biomedical tissue. It is still too early to determine the full potential of 3-D printing, but the technology is advancing quickly. Yet the environmental impacts of 3-D printing have been little studied, and may cut the other way too, writes Jason Bordoff in the Wall Street Journal.
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Op-ed
June 07, 2016

Iran’s broken financial system

Richard Nephew and Liz Rosenberg argue that blaming sanctions for the failure of a windfall for Iran to materialize — as critics and supporters alike are saying — misplaces attribution and undermines prospects for the Iran deal’s success.
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Op-ed
June 02, 2016

Opec is not dead — it is adapting

Not only have prices entered a prolonged decline, so has OPEC’s image as a market-shaping institution. OPEC seems in terminal decline. But, argues Antoine Halff in the Financial Times, it is too early to announce OPEC’s death.

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