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Make way for Chile: Latin America’s next climate frontrunner

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.
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Make way for Chile: Latin America’s next climate frontrunner

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.
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Make way for Chile: Latin America’s next climate frontrunner

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.
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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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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
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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.

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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.

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EnergySource

Sep 23, 2019

Make way for Chile: Latin America’s next climate frontrunner

By Zachary Strauss

Chile has firmly launched itself into the low-carbon future and has demonstrated no interest in going back. As the public electric transport capital of the Americas with a robust renewable energy and environmental policy framework, Chile stands as an exemplar of climate progress and vision, both in the region and beyond.

Climate Change & Climate Action
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Report

Sep 23, 2019

Assessing blockchain’s future in transactive energy

By Ben Hertz-Shargel

There are compelling reasons for energy markets, and their governance, to move in the direction of a more transactive energy system. Is blockchain a suitable platform for the transactive electricity market of the future, enabling distributed energy resources to transact with each other and capture value, while collectively helping balance the grid?

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In the News

Sep 22, 2019

Livingston quoted in El Pais Semanal on climate action and industry

By Atlantic Council

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In the News

Sep 20, 2019

Ellinas in Cyprus Mail: Challenges to Israel’s Gas Exports

By Atlantic Council

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In the News

Sep 19, 2019

Slavin quoted in The Washington Examiner on US-Iran relations

By Atlantic Council

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EnergySource

Sep 19, 2019

North Korea is trying to find a way to keep the lights on

By Halley Posner

Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the North Korean regime had to devise a way to meet its ever-growing energy demand without benefaction. But when all the options present their own set of flaws, the best answer seems still to be elusive.

East Asia
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In the News

Sep 18, 2019

Cohen joins Al Jazeera to discuss the Abqaiq-Khurais attacks and oil price volatility

By Atlantic Council

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In the News

Sep 18, 2019

Cohen joins Bloomberg to discuss escalation with Iran, and impact to energy markets

By Atlantic Council

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In the News

Sep 17, 2019

Slavin quoted in NPR on U.S. Satellites Detected Iran Readying Weapons Ahead Of Saudi Strike

By Atlantic Council

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In the News

Sep 17, 2019

Shaffer for The Washington Examiner: Stand up to Iran’s oil market terrorism

By Atlantic Council

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Executive Leadership Intensive participant

Shqipe Vela

Program Manager, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Millennium Leadership Program

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Olivia Azadegan

Senior Energy Manager, Global Methane Hub

Millennium Leadership Program

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Neil Ford

Nonresident Senior Fellow

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Thomas Storch

Distinguished fellow, N7 Initiative

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Rabah Arezki

Distinguished Fellow

Freedom and Prosperity Center

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Kipkorir Koskei

2025 European Leadership Accelerator participant

Millennium Leadership Program

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What to know about the oil sector in post-Maduro Venezuela
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