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Event with India’s Finance Minister featured in The Hindu

GeoTech Cues May 21, 2025

To build tomorrow’s power grid, the United States should look to geothermal energy

By Sudeep Kanungo, Will LaRivee

Geothermal energy offers a promising solution for stable, reliable baseload power. But to unlock its full potential, the US government must take action to reduce the barriers to entry for industry.
Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
Event with India’s Finance Minister featured in The Hindu

EnergySource Apr 29, 2025

Can Nord Stream really rise from the dead? 

By Alan Riley

Despite recent discussions between Moscow and Washington over restarting the Nord Stream pipelines, legal, financial, and political hurdles make reopening them improbable. Multimillion dollar claims against Gazprom along with US stakes in the European LNG market are likely to severely limit support for Russian gas flows to the EU.
Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
Event with India’s Finance Minister featured in The Hindu

New Atlanticist Apr 17, 2025

How the National Energy Dominance Council can set the US on the path to energy security

By Ellen Wald

The National Energy Dominance Council must act quickly to restore stability to the energy industry amid geopolitical uncertainty.
Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

Programs

The Global Energy Center develops and promotes pragmatic and nonpartisan policy solutions designed to advance global energy security, enhance economic opportunity, and accelerate pathways to net-zero emissions.

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Events

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
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Content

In the News

Apr 19, 2022

Event with India’s Finance Minister featured in The Hindu

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Climate Change & Climate Action Economic Sanctions

In the News

Apr 15, 2022

Sullivan in Arab News: Quick action required to address energy poverty causing unrest
Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

In the News

Apr 6, 2022

Lipsky quoted in Politico on Russian debt and credit rating

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Conflict Economic Sanctions

In the News

Apr 5, 2022

Lipsky quoted in Politico discussing impacts of a potential Russian default on the global economy

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Conflict Economic Sanctions

In the News

Apr 2, 2022

Ellinas in CyprusMail: European hydrogen development and opportunities
Energy Markets & Governance Renewables & Advanced Energy

In the News

Apr 2, 2022

Friedlander cited in the Economist on illegal oil shipments as a means of sanctions evasion

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Conflict Economic Sanctions

Global Energy Forum

Apr 1, 2022

The role of refining in the energy transition: Reduce carbon intensity of fuels and chemicals

By Atlantic Council

How can the refining sector adapt to produce a wide range of less carbon-intense fuels from relatively unfamiliar raw materials?

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

Global Energy Forum

Apr 1, 2022

Why South and Southeast Asia are pivotal to global climate and energy ambitions

By Atlantic Council

The challenges and opportunities in accelerating the clean energy transition most greatly lie in South and Southeast Asia.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

Global Energy Forum

Apr 1, 2022

Practical steps for Europe as it turns away from Russian gas

By Atlantic Council

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and its manipulation of the European gas market before then, has made discussions in Europe about getting out from under Russian gas hegemony more pressing than ever.

Climate Change & Climate Action Crisis Management

Global Energy Forum

Apr 1, 2022

The future of environmental, social, and corporate governance: ‘It’s not about ticking a box.’

By Atlantic Council

With unprecedented amounts of private capital projected to be deployed in order to fight climate change, environmental, social, and corporate-governance investing is taking center stage in financing the energy transition.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment
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Experts

Fellow

Thomas Storch

Distinguished fellow, N7 Initiative

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Economy & Business Energy Markets & Governance

Fellow

Rabah Arezki

Distinguished Fellow

Freedom and Prosperity Center

Africa Economy & Business

European Leadership Accelerator Participant

Kipkorir Koskei

2025 European Leadership Accelerator participant

Millennium Leadership Program

Africa Energy Markets & Governance

Fellow

Ryan J. Lamke

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Global Energy Center

Arabic China

Executive Leadership Intensive participant

Sofronis Papageorgiou 

Head, Cyprus Trade Center, Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus to the State of Israel

Millennium Leadership Program

Energy Markets & Governance Middle East

Executive Leadership Intensive participant

Istvan-Lorant Antal

Senator, Senate of Romania

Millennium Leadership Program

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
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