Energy Markets & Governance

Energy markets are in flux as new energy production and delivery methods alter global supply chains, while economic growth and new desires for energy efficiency change demand in different parts of the world. Policy makers will need to be able to interpret these shifts in the energy market and build new frameworks to manage energy uncertainty.

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Standing Up to Gazprom: What Ukraine Can Learn from Lithuania

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

Standing Up to Gazprom: What Ukraine Can Learn from Lithuania

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

Standing Up to Gazprom: What Ukraine Can Learn from Lithuania

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

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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

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.


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Lithuania's energy weapon: The Baltic state will lease the Independence, a "floating storage and re-gasification unit" built by South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries, and owned by Norway's Hoegh LNG. It will anchor in the port of Klaipeda and process gas from arriving LNG carriers. (www.hoeghlng.com)

New Atlanticist

Jun 23, 2014

Standing Up to Gazprom: What Ukraine Can Learn from Lithuania

By Agnia Grigas

As Russia Wields its Gas Weapon Against Ukraine, it Has Cut its Price to Lithuania. How Did That Happen? Russia and its state gas company, Gazprom, cut their gas supply to Ukraine last week amid a dispute that includes Gazprom’s demand that Ukrainians pay $485 per thousand meters of gas – an 81-percent price increase. […]

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, June 10, 2014

NATOSource

Jun 10, 2014

Rasmussen Outlines Strategic Transatlantic Priorities

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

[H]istory has taught us that freedom does not come for free. We must work for it. Invest in it. And, if necessary, fight for it.

Economy & Business Energy & Environment
Europe at night, July 28, 2008

NATOSource

May 27, 2014

Russia Crisis: Why Europe Must Adopt a Comprehensive Energy Strategy

By Sigurd Neubauer

Amid escalating U.S.-Russian tensions over Moscow’s illegal incursion of Crimea and subsequent provocations in eastern Ukraine, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak threatened last week to halt gas supplies to Ukraine and Europe should Western leaders decide to impose punitive sanctions on his government.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
President Vladimir Putin with Russia's National Amateur Ice Hockey Team, May 10, 2014

NATOSource

May 14, 2014

Why Aren’t Sanctions Stopping Putin?

By Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Daily Beast

The West is threatening another round of sanctions against Russia in an effort to deter meddling in the May 25 presidential elections in Ukraine.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

Issue Brief

Apr 28, 2014

The Impact of US Liquefied Natural Gas Exports on Central and Eastern Europe’s Energy Security

By Péter Kaderják, László Paizs, Adrienn Selei, Borbála Tóth

The unfolding political crisis between Ukraine and Russia poses an immediate gas supply security risk for Europe, but especially for Central Eastern Europe (CEE), the Baltic States, and South East Europe (SEE). This new issue brief, authored by Péter Kaderják, László Paizs, Adrienn Selei, and Borbála Tóth of the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research […]

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

Webcasts

Apr 28, 2014

Webcast: American Energy Prowess in a Strategic Foreign Policy Perspective

Please join us for the first day of the American Energy Prowess in a Strategic Foreign Policy Perspective conference on Monday, April 28 at 12:30 p.m..The aim of the conference is to discuss and debate the strategic foreign policy aspects of the American shale gas revolution and its effect on the transatlantic relationship and the Central […]

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 1, 2014

NATOSource

Apr 14, 2014

Head of NATO Says Ukraine Only Part of Putin’s Ambitions

By Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal

“I see Ukraine and Crimea in a bigger context,” Mr. [NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh] Rasmussen says. “I see this as an element in a pattern, and it’s driven by President Putin’s strong desire to restore Russian greatness

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

Article

Apr 14, 2014

Waiting for the Great Gas Cutoff

By John Roberts

Russia-Ukraine Crisis Is Now Unlikely to Let Russian Gas Keep Flowing Smoothly to Europe  European countries from Germany and Poland to Italy and Turkey now need to ensure they have emergency plans in place to deal with a possible cut-off of Russian gas supplies. At risk are the roughly one-fifth of their supplies delivered via […]

Central Europe Eastern Europe

New Atlanticist

Apr 14, 2014

Europe Awaits the Great Gas Cutoff

By New Atlanticist

Escalating Ukraine Crisis Is Unlikely to Let Russian Gas Flow Smoothly to Europe  “European countries from Germany and Poland to Italy and Turkey now need to ensure they have emergency plans in place to deal with a possible cut-off of Russian gas supplies,” Atlantic Council Senior Fellow John Roberts writes in an essay. As new violence […]

Central Europe Eastern Europe

Congressional Relations

Apr 8, 2014

Gen. James Jones: Amid Ukraine Crisis, Congress and NATO Should Help Energize Europe

By New Atlanticist

US Could Export LNG, Back Iraq-Turkey Pipeline General James L. Jones, the former US national security advisor to President Obama, has urged Congress and NATO to act quickly to ensure energy security in Europe in light of the crisis over Russia’s attacks on Ukraine.

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Istvan-Lorant Antal

Senator, Senate of Romania

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Rabah Arezki

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Olivia Azadegan

Senior Energy Manager, Global Methane Hub

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Emilie Bel

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Neil Robert Brown

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Caroline Cecot

Nonresident Senior Fellow

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