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News and Publications by Edward Fishman • Foreign Policy • January 30, 2025

Center on Global Energy Policy Announces Third Cohort of David Leuschen Global Energy Fellows

The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA today announced the third cohort of the David Leuschen Global Energy Fellows. The cohort, which consists of...

Announcement • January 30, 2025

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Q&A: The Energy, Trade and Geopolitical Implications of the Trump Tariffs

President Trump has agreed to a 30-day pause on proposed 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico. There are many moving parts to the action but for now...

Blog by Robert (RJ) Johnston, Edward Fishman, Luisa Palacios + 1 more • February 4, 2025

Q&A: The Energy, Trade and Geopolitical Implications of the Trump Tariffs

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Energy and Climate Issues During the Trump Administration’s First 100 Days

President Donald Trump has made energy a clear focus for his second term in the White House. Having campaigned on an “America First” platform that highlighted domestic fossil...

Blog by Matt Bowen, Anne-Sophie Corbeau, Erica Downs + 13 more • January 23, 2025

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Q&A: How Will New US Sanctions Affect Russia’s Energy Sector?

The sweeping new sanctions imposed on Russia’s energy sector by the Biden administration on January 10 mark a significant shift in strategy. Since the start of Russia’s full-scale...

Blog by Erica Downs, Edward Fishman, Tatiana Mitrova + 1 more • January 16, 2025

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Energy Policy

America’s New Energy Playbook

Over the past month, the Trump administration has declared a national energy emergency, launched an ambitious agenda aimed at transforming the nation's energy landscape, and pulled back from...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Paul M. Dabbar • February 4, 2025

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Climate Change

Reporters’ Roundtable: Trump’s Quick Start on Energy

Last week, President Trump wasted no time in making good on a long list of energy-related campaign promises. Declaring a national energy emergency, he issued executive orders that...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast • January 28, 2025

Energy Policy

What’s Next for America’s Energy Policy?

President Donald Trump’s administration is promising an energy policy overhaul that would fundamentally reshape America's climate and energy policies. Trump and Republican leaders have pledged to pull back...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Frank Fannon • January 21, 2025

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February 13, 2025 - February 14, 2025

The Energy Transition from a Fiscal Angle: An Overview of Current Challenges and Mitigation Policies

This workshop will be conducted in two parts: Part one on February 12 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST, and Part two on February 13 from 2:00...

Event • Center on Global Energy Policy

The Energy Transition from a Fiscal Angle: An Overview of Current Challenges and Mitigation Policies

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February 26, 2025 • 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm est

Student Roundtable: Entrepreneurship and AI

Please join the Women in Energy initiative at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA for a student roundtable lunch and discussion featuring Women in Energy’s...

Event • CGEP Large Conference Room
1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027

February 27, 2025 • 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm est

Book Launch — Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

Chokepoints tells the epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to confront a new authoritarian axis—Russia, China, and Iran. In...

Event • The Foyer, 2nd Floor
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America’s New Energy Playbook

Over the past month, the Trump administration has declared a national energy emergency, launched an ambitious agenda aimed at transforming the nation's energy landscape, and pulled back from...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Paul M. Dabbar • February 4, 2025

Climate Change

Reporters’ Roundtable: Trump’s Quick Start on Energy

Last week, President Trump wasted no time in making good on a long list of energy-related campaign promises. Declaring a national energy emergency, he issued executive orders that...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast • January 28, 2025

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What’s Next for America’s Energy Policy?

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The Battery Recycling Dilemma

So far over this season we've traced the global lithium-ion battery supply chain from mining to processing to manufacturing. And we've put it all into a geopolitical and economic context.

The Big Switch Podcast • March 27, 2024

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The Great Battery Manufacturing Race

China has been the world's biggest battery manufacturer for over a decade. By 2022, according to the IEA, China manufactured 76% of the world's batteries. But that's changing.

The Big Switch Podcast • March 20, 2024

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The High Stakes for Battery Ingredients

Batteries can replace gasoline in our cars, or diesel in our generators with electricity. But batteries and petroleum-based fuels share something in common: they both rely on energy-intensive processes to turn extracted materials into something useful.

The Big Switch Podcast • March 13, 2024

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AI, Extreme Weather, and the LA Wildfires

The year 2024 ended with a sobering milestone: it was officially the hottest year ever recorded. That pattern of extremes continues around the world, especially in Southern California,...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Alice Hill and Colin McCormick • January 14, 2025

AI, Extreme Weather, and the LA Wildfires

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Climate as a Catalyst for Global Conflicts

Climate change isn't just an environmental threat—it's becoming a catalyst for conflict. Over the past decade, rising temperatures, water shortages, and other environmental disruptions have fueled tensions from...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Peter Schwartzstein • January 7, 2025

Climate as a Catalyst for Global Conflicts

Energy Policy

Transforming America’s Power System

This week host Jason Bordoff talks with Cheryl LaFleur and David Hill about the incoming Trump administration, its impact on FERC, and the status of permitting reform measures.

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Cheryl LaFleur and David R. Hill • December 17, 2024

Climate Change

COP29: A Veteran’s Account of the UN Process

The international climate negotiation process stands at a critical juncture. At the recent COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, nations struggled to find common ground on financial support and carbon...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Elliot Diringer • December 10, 2024

COP29: A Veteran’s Account of the UN Process

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The Cybersecurity Stakes of the Energy Transition

The energy transition is transforming how we power our world – clean energy systems are becoming more interconnected, automated, and reliant on digital infrastructure. But with this transformation...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Harry Krejsa • December 3, 2024

The Cybersecurity Stakes of the Energy Transition

Critical Minerals

Minimizing Damage as Mining for Critical Minerals Ramps Up

The clean energy transition has a dirty underside. To move away from fossil fuels and toward solar, wind, batteries, and other alternative sources of energy, we have to intensify mining operations for critical minerals like lithium, copper, and cobalt.

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Vince Beiser • November 26, 2024

Minimizing Damage as Mining for Critical Minerals Ramps Up

Inside the 2024 World Energy Outlook

Rising electricity demand. Heightened geopolitical tension. Fragility in energy markets. These are some of the big stories shaping the energy transition outlined in the International Energy Agency’s newest...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Tim Gould • November 19, 2024

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Where Climate and Trade Policy Meet

In passing and signing the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, Congress and the Biden administration infused hundreds of billions of dollars into the energy transition. It was the...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Sarah Bianchi • November 12, 2024

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Re-Run: ‘The Untold History of Climate Science and Politics’

In 1953, the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series, “From Here to Eternity” won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture. And on...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Jay Hakes • November 5, 2024

Re-Run: ‘The Untold History of Climate Science and Politics’

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How to Make the Energy Transition More Equitable

Emerging markets and developing economies are set to account for the largest source of emissions growth in the coming decades, according to the International Energy Agency. As population...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Rahul Tongia • October 29, 2024

How to Make the Energy Transition More Equitable

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Balancing AI’s Growing Energy Demands

The artificial intelligence boom is fueling a massive uptick in energy demand globally.

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Jason Bordoff and Jared Dunnmon • October 22, 2024

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How Oil Markets Are Responding to Uncertainty in the Middle East

Escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, the world’s seventh-largest producer of crude oil, have fueled concern over oil price volatility for the past few weeks. But the oil...

Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast with Helima Croft and Javier Blas • October 15, 2024

How Oil Markets Are Responding to Uncertainty in the Middle East

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