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UkraineAlert

Nov 4, 2021

Ukraine faces energy crisis as Putin weaponizes gas and coal supplies

By Aura Sabadus

As the winter season draws closer, Ukraine faces a looming energy crisis on multiple fronts which could lead to domestic political instability and deepen the country’s dependence on Vladimir Putin's Russia.

Conflict
Energy & Environment

Report

Nov 4, 2021

What future for the Western Sahel?

By Richard Cincotta and Stephen Smith

The Western Sahel is in a demographic impasse. To work their way out of this dilemma, Sahelian governments must shift a significant part of their development focus and funding to policies and programs aimed at preventing adolescent marriages and childbearing, promoting girls’ education, securing women’s participation in public- and private-sector workplaces, and achieving small, healthy, well-educated families.

Africa
Energy & Environment

New Atlanticist

Nov 3, 2021

Can innovation save the planet?

By Dan Peleschuk

Policy heavyweights Bill Gates and John Kerry and experts from the UAE and Kenya joined the Atlantic Council at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, to discuss the technological breakthroughs that can make a lasting impact on climate change.

Climate Change & Climate Action
Eastern Europe

UkraineAlert

Nov 2, 2021

Ukraine’s dangerous Winter Olympic obsession

By Nicholas Bell, Lukas Straumann

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has declared his intention to bring the Winter Olympics to the country, but environmentalists fear the initiative will cause irreparable damage to some of the most valuable mountain ecosystems in Europe.

Climate Change & Climate Action
Energy & Environment

EnergySource

Nov 1, 2021

The net-zero kingdom: A third way

By Andrea Clabough

Released to great fanfare, Saudi Arabia's new green pledges represent an attempt to build a clean future on the bedrock of fossil fuels. The viability of that approach is far from certain.

Energy & Environment
Energy Transitions

AC Selects

Oct 31, 2021

AC Selects: The road to COP26 and American stories inside Kabul

Week of October 31, 2021 The Global Energy Center invites distinguished speakers to discuss how the UAE is pioneering investments in low-carbon solutions at home and abroad and working to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. In addition, insights and perspectives from an American journalist reporting her firsthand accounts of Afghanistan in the past few months. […]

Afghanistan
Climate Change & Climate Action

New Atlanticist

Oct 31, 2021

Experts react: Can COP26 negotiators sustain the momentum?

By Atlantic Council experts

Atlantic Council experts deliver insightful analysis on the COP26 developments that will matter most in the fight against climate change.

Climate Change & Climate Action
Energy & Environment

SouthAsiaSource

Oct 29, 2021

A field of her own

By Megan Goyette and Emily Carll

Governments must re-examine their climate finance policies to ensure that funds are directed to and advised by those who know the on-the-ground truth, rather than others who will be drawn to invest in climate buzzwords such as renewables and technological saviors.

Climate Change & Climate Action
Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Oct 28, 2021

Nooruddin quoted in The Print on the discussion of how climate action requires the ‘speed and scale’ of private industries too.

By Atlantic Council

Climate Change & Climate Action
Economy & Business

UkraineAlert

Oct 28, 2021

Gas price caps would be a disaster for the Ukrainian economy

By Willem Buiter

Ukraine's proposed price cap on private company natural gas sales is symptomatic of what is wrong with the country’s broader approach to the market economy and must be avoided at all costs, writes Willem Buiter.

Energy & Environment
Energy Markets & Governance

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