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Aug 11, 2020

Averting crisis: leveraging the energy transition to revitalize the coal belt

By Craig Hart

America is undergoing an energy transition away from coal that will leave coal-producing communities in crisis in the absence of policy action to help transition these regions to new and cleaner industries. Until leadership at the federal level arrives, local initiatives and regional coordination will be critical to leading this effort.

Energy Markets & Governance Energy Transitions

New Atlanticist

Mar 24, 2020

The implications of the coronavirus crisis on the global energy sector and the environment

By Jennifer T. Gordon

The current drop in oil demand—caused, in large part, by severe reductions in travel due to the coronavirus—combined with the Saudi-Russia oil price war has simultaneously, if temporarily, lowered greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). However, the drop in GHG emissions is likely to be unsustainable in the long term, and the currently low cost of oil has raised questions about the future of clean energy deployment and climate action.

Coronavirus Energy & Environment
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EnergySource

Jan 29, 2020

China’s vision for community with a shared future for humanity belies actual action

By Craig Hart

For China to truly back the its vision of a "shared future" with action, it must drastically reduce its own carbon emissions at home and discontinue investing abroad in carbon-intensive infrastructure through its Belt and Road Initiative.

China Energy Transitions

Craig A. Hart is a former nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center. He is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University.

Hart has more than twenty years of applied experience leading projects and advising governments, project developers and banks in energy infrastructure finance, and advising governments and intergovernmental organizations on policies and regulation for decarbonization, and resilience.

Hart has worked with governments and projects in the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Africa on minerals, oil and gas, renewables, energy efficiency, grid modernization and microgrids, and low carbon technologies for the fossil-fuel power generation sector.

Hart serves on the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Committee on Sustainability and its Council on Standards and Certification, which establishes and maintains ASME safety and performance standards, and monitors their implementation globally. Additionally, he is a member of the International Organization for Standardization’s US Technical Advisory Committees TC-298 for rare earth elements, TC-333 for lithium, PC-348 for sustainable rare materials and TC-265 for carbon sequestration technologies.

Hart earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a bachelor’s and law degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a master’s in economics from New York University.