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On March 30, the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University hosted a conversation among Senior Research Scholars Dr. Mauricio Cardenas and Dr. Luisa Palacios, and Distinguished Visiting Fellow Juan Carlos Jobet, about the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine on Latin America’s energy sector. The discussion covered a range of issues, including the war’s influence on the region’s macroeconomic trends and energy transition. What follows are the main takeaways from the conversation:
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[1] IEA, “Russian Supplies to Global Energy Markets,” February 2022, https://www.iea.org/reports/russian-supplies-to-global-energy-markets.
[2] Luisa Palacios and Francisco Monaldi, “Venezuela Oil Sanctions: Not an Easy Fix,” Center on Global Energy Policy, March 23, 2022, https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/commentary/venezuela-oil-sanctions-not-easy-fix.
3 Baltazar Solano-Rodriguez et al., “Implications of Climate Targets on Oil Production and Fiscal Revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean,” Inter-American Development Bank, August 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0001802.
A major military engagement could occur in the Asia-Pacific region in the form of a possible conflict between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.