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Global Energy Forum

Feb 8, 2021

How to design an energy transition that includes everyone—including the most vulnerable

By Katherine Golden

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed an “interdependent” world with “huge issues of inequity,” said Sunita Narain, director general of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Without addressing these realities, “we cannot deal with the virus, and it’s the same with climate change.”

Climate Change & Climate Action
Energy & Environment

Global Energy Forum

Jan 28, 2021

As the aviation industry recovers from one crisis, it is looking to the next: climate change

By Katherine Golden

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated “the most severe crisis for aviation ever,” said Marc Hamy, vice president of corporate affairs, sustainability, and environment at Airbus. But there’s another crisis on the horizon for the aviation industry: “increasing pressure coming from climate change. So we absolutely need to recover from this crisis in aviation, and at the same time we’ll have to manage the most important transition in the history of our sector: decarbonized aviation.” Hamy added.

Energy & Environment
Energy Markets & Governance

New Atlanticist

Jan 25, 2021

How climate change can become a bipartisan issue in the Biden era

By Larry Luxner

Fighting climate change should not become a partisan issue, said US Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware who co-chairs the fourteen-member Bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus.

Energy & Environment
Energy Markets & Governance

Content

In the News

Nov 17, 2023

Webster quoted in Fortune on Danish wind company’s tendentious write-off

Energy & Environment
Energy Markets & Governance

New Atlanticist

Nov 16, 2023

What the EU and US want to get done at COP28

By Katherine Golden

Climate leaders outlined their hopes for the global stocktake, loss and damage fund, and more at the EU-US Defense & Future Forum.

Climate Change & Climate Action
Energy & Environment

New Atlanticist

Nov 9, 2023

Rebooting the Russian oil price cap

By Brian O’Toole, Olga Khakova, Tomasz Wlostowski, and Charles Lichfield

Atlantic Council experts weigh in on how to improve the price cap on Russian oil imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Economic Sanctions
Economy & Business

Report

Nov 8, 2023

Future of the Cities Summit of the Americas

By Willow Fortunoff, Diego Area

The first-ever Cities Summit of the Americas created a new platform for mayors across the hemisphere to build partnerships with civil society organizations–particularly those focused on the region and/or local governance–private sector companies, and one another.

Civil Society
Energy Markets & Governance

In the News

Oct 26, 2023

Derentz joins CNA to discuss energy markets and his expectations for COP28

East Asia
Energy & Environment

In the News

Oct 25, 2023

Goldwyn quoted in News Room on Guyana’s strategies to manage its new oil and gas industry

Energy & Environment
Energy Markets & Governance
Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in Japan

EnergySource

Oct 23, 2023

Atoms for Peace 2.0: The case for a stronger US-Japan nuclear power alliance

By Julia Nesheiwat and Shoichi Itoh

Against the backdrop of Russian and Chinese-induced geopolitical instability, Tokyo and Washington should redouble commitments to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

China
Energy & Environment

In the News

Oct 22, 2023

Ellinas in Financial Mirror: Green future needs natural gas

Energy & Environment
Energy Markets & Governance

In the News

Oct 21, 2023

Ellinas in Financial Mirror: Supply shortage, conflicts keep oil prices high

China
Climate Change & Climate Action

In the News

Oct 20, 2023

Goldwyn was quoted in World Ports on Venezuelan oil sanctions relief

Energy & Environment
Energy Markets & Governance

Experts