Columbia Energy Exchange features in-depth conversations with the world’s top energy and climate leaders from government, business, academia and civil society. The program explores today’s most pressing opportunities and challenges across energy sources, financial markets, geopolitics and climate change as well as their implications for both the U.S. and the world.
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The global offshore wind industry is booming as China and Europe break records for the size and scope of their projects.
Record-breaking heat waves in Oregon and Washington State. Wildfires rippling through the West. A looming season of hurricanes.
These weather events take a toll on human life and strain our energy infrastructure.
But to what extent are extreme weather events made worse and more...
In late June, Congress voted to undo former President Trump's rollback of methane regulations that were put in place during the Obama Era.
The move was a major milestone, but...
The fight for climate justice in America presses on with signs of hope after a year of spirited activism and a new president. But the process of untangling the thicket of inequities in the energy system is far from over.
Dr. Robert Bullard is one of the visionary leaders helping to make...
The lithium-ion battery. The megawatt-scale wind turbine. The crystalline-silicon solar panel.
All popular, scalable low-carbon innovations that enjoy modern commercial success today started as prototypes with promise but lacking in funds, scalability, and widespread support. It takes...
Host Bill Loveless speaks with two scholars working on the food system and climate change, NYU Professor Matthew Hayek and NASA Scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig.
Host Jason Bordoff introduces a new podcast from the Center on Global Energy Policy - The Big Switch.
Host Bill Loveless is joined by Maine Senator Angus King to discuss the state of play for climate and energy legislation.
Host Jason Bordoff is joined by Bernard Looney, CEO of bp, to discuss bp’s planned transformation from an oil and gas company to an integrated energy company, a little more than one year into the strategy.
Host Jason Bordoff is joined by Gina McCarthy, National Climate Advisor at the White House to discuss the Biden Administration’s climate agenda.
Host Jason Bordoff is joined by Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, who discussed key findings from the Agency’s groundbreaking new report on pathways to creating a global net-zero energy economy by 2050.
Host Jason Bordoff is joined by Bob McNally and Adam Segal, leading experts on energy and cybersecurity, respectively, to examine what happened with the Colonial Pipeline system and what lessons should be drawn about the vulnerability and resilience of critical energy infrastructure.
It’s been quite a tumultuous year for the oil and gas industry, from a historic pandemic that sent oil prices crashing to growing pressure and urgency for companies to align their strategies with the world’s escalating climate ambitions. Occidental Petroleum is...
Host Bill Loveless is joined by Mike Stevens, the Washington State director of The Nature Conservancy, a global environmental organization and one of the key players in the passage of the new Climate Commitment Act.
Host Jason Bordoff is joined by David Sandalow to discuss last week’s climate summit and what lies ahead.
Host Bill Loveless is joined by Maria Jelescu, the CEO of Ardinall Investment Management, and Jully Meriño Carela, the director of the Women in Energy (WIE) initiative at CGEP.
Host Jason Bordoff is joined by Kelly Sims Gallagher to discuss what both the U.S. and China are doing domestically on climate change, and whether and how their actions may play out as cooperation or competition between the two nations.
Host Bill Loveless speaks with Jay Hakes, the author of the new book “Energy Crises: Nixon, Ford and Carter, and Hard Choices in the 1970s.”
Host Bill Loveless reaches out to Arati Prabhakar, who was the head of the Defense Research Projects Agency at the U.S. Department of Defense, better known as DARPA, during the Obama administration and director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology under President Bill Clinton.
Host Jason Bordoff is joined by Francesco La Camera, the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
