Research
Interview
September 14, 2021

Africa’s Call for Climate Change Adaption: Heeding Warnings from the IPCC Report in Advance of COP26 | Q&A with Dr. Harry Verhoeven

Dr. Harry Verhoeven is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy, focusing on the political economy of climate change, international relations and the linkages between water, energy and food security. His regional focus is on Africa, the Middle East and the Western Indian Ocean.

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast
September 08, 2021

The Future Of Mexico’s Energy Transition

Host Jason Bordoff spoke with former Mexican Deputy Secretary for Planning and Energy Transition, Leonardo Beltrán Rodríguez.

Oil Intensity: The Curiously Steady Decline of Oil in GDP
Research
Report
September 09, 2021

Oil Intensity: The Curiously Steady Decline of Oil in GDP

This report looks at oil intensity and its curiously consistent downward progress. The authors explain the trend and cross-validate its predictive potential before delving into possible reasons behind the linear decline in oil intensity. It finally extrapolates what such a continuing trend might mean for oil consumption and policies around it going forward.

Event
September 20, 2021

Climate Week NYC | China, the US and Climate Diplomacy: A Conversation with Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

Event
September 14, 2021

African Perspectives on Climate and Climate Politics -- Africa and Global Climate Diplomacy: Priorities, Lessons Learned, Pathways Forward

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast
August 31, 2021

“United We Are Unstoppable”

Host Bill Loveless interviewed Akshat Rathi, the editor of "United We Are Unstoppable," a collection of essays by 60 young people about their determination to save the world from climate change.

Event
September 28, 2021

Student Roundtable with Paul Dabbar: Trends in Energy Technology and R&D

Stronger International Safeguards as a Condition of Supply to Nuclear Energy Programs: Coming to Consensus in the Nuclear Suppliers Group
Research
Commentary
August 30, 2021

Stronger International Safeguards as a Condition of Supply to Nuclear Energy Programs: Coming to Consensus in the Nuclear Suppliers Group

This commentary discusses a history of related policy developments in the NSG, examines some of the group’s roadblocks to consensus, and suggests options for making progress on adding stronger international safeguards as a condition of supply to nuclear energy programs.

Research
August 26, 2021

A review of spatial resolution and regionalisation in national-scale energy systems optimisation models

This review paper first determines how a combination of supply and demand data requirements and socio-economic, environmental and political issues, can challenge the results of a low-spatial resolution model. It also demonstrates the incompleteness of single region ESOMs that do not capture sufficient spatial detail.

Green Hydrogen in a Circular Carbon Economy: Opportunities and Limits
Research
Report
August 26, 2021

Green Hydrogen in a Circular Carbon Economy: Opportunities and Limits

This report, part of the Carbon Management Research Initiative at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, examines green hydrogen production and applications to understand the core challenges to its expansion at scale and the near-term opportunity to enable deployment.

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