Reflections from Munich 2026
I’m en route home after a week in Europe—first at the Oslo Energy Forum and then at the Munich Security Conference. Munich generated considerable news and drama, but...
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In MEES, Program Director Tim Boersma discusses how policy under President-elect Trump will unlikely change the trends of renewable and natural gas growth in the United States.
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Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee is pushing to rewrite renewable energy laws, aiming to cut utility bills by $1 billion over five years. The plan includes reviewing solar project payments and has drawn mixed reactions.
“Any additional volatility in pipeline flows from Iran to Turkey would deepen Turkey’s bid in the Atlantic basin LNG market, diverting incremental cargoes from northwest Europe,” said Benjamin Gage, founder of Balance Point Research. This would likely result in higher European benchmark TTF prices, with the market needing to “reprice higher to protect its share of flexible LNG supply”, he added. American and Iranian diplomats held a first round of negotiations in Oman on Friday, easing immediate fears of escalation, although there was no decisive breakthrough, including around Iran’s nuclear programme. Turkey imported around 22mcm/day of natural gas via pipeline from Iran in 2025, Gage said,
A surge of liquefied natural gas around the globe could hurt American exporters who continue to build new projects.
Despite Trump's affinity for natural gas, residents of a relatively conservative town are campaigning to block a $272M natural gas expansion.
Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.
On November 6, 2025, in the lead-up to the annual UN Conference of the Parties (COP30), the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA convened a roundtable on project-based carbon credit markets (PCCMs) in São Paulo, Brazil—a country that both hosted this year’s COP and is well-positioned to shape the next phase of global carbon markets by leveraging its experience in nature-based solutions.
Connecticut needs an honest debate, and fresh thinking, to shape a climate strategy fit for today, not 2022.