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Can the Eastern Mediterranean resolve its natural gas strife?

UkraineAlert Apr 9, 2025

Putin’s Arctic ambitions: Russia eyes natural resources and shipping routes

By Bohdan Ustymenko

Russia’s plans to expand its influence in the Arctic region and dominate the Northern Sea Route together with China pose serious security challenges for the international community, writes Bohdan Ustymenko.
China Conflict
Can the Eastern Mediterranean resolve its natural gas strife?

EnergySource Mar 28, 2025

Nord Stream could divide Europe yet again 

By Michał Kurtyka

Washington’s potential reset with Moscow, amid Ukraine peace negotiations, has revived discussions on the future of Nord Stream 2. Whether the Trump administration would cede its LNG market in Europe to Russian pipeline exports remains to be seen. For Europe, however, reopening the pipeline would be a costly mistake.
Eastern Europe Economy & Business
Can the Eastern Mediterranean resolve its natural gas strife?

MENASource Mar 13, 2025

Why now is the right time for ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran’s oil exports

By Scott Modell

Iran is more vulnerable than it has been in decades; the United States can deliver a decisive blow to Tehran and set the stage for a more stable and secure future.
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Global Energy Forum

Jan 12, 2020

Gas in the energy transition: Bridge or the destination?

By David A. Wemer

“There are some who believe that gas should play no role in the global energy mix,” Ambassador Richard Morningstar, founding chairman of the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center, said at the introduction of a panel on the future of gas at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Forum hosted in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on January 12, 2020. At the other end of the spectrum, he added, some have “called gas a destination fuel that provides a clean baseload energy needed for the developed world to grow.”

Energy Transitions Oil and Gas

Global Energy Forum

Jan 11, 2020

Pathways to Net Zero

By Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council 2020 Global Energy Forum Pathways to Net Zero Speaker: Shaikh Nawaf Al-Sabah, Chief Executive Officer, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company Ahmed Ali Attiga, Chief Executive Officer, APICORP Meg Gentle, President and CEO, Tellurian, Inc. Adam Sieminski, President, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center Moderated By: David Livingston, Deputy Director, Climate and Advanced […]

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

Global Energy Forum

Jan 11, 2020

Gas imports remain key to Asia’s development plans

By Adal Mirza

Despite rising renewable energy generation, South and South East Asia will continue to look at major investments in new gas import infrastructure to displace more carbon-intensive fuels, as the region races to meet its development ambitions.

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Global Energy Forum

Apr 1, 2022

Can the Eastern Mediterranean resolve its natural gas strife?

By Atlantic Council

What role can the region play in a global push to reduce emissions and improve energy security?

Crisis Management Energy & Environment

Global Energy Forum

Apr 1, 2022

How a circular carbon economy can help achieve Paris Agreement climate goals

By Atlantic Council

Tools such as carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and others will all need to be organized together to form a ‘circular carbon economy’ of carbon management.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

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

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

Global Energy Forum

Apr 1, 2022

The search for energy security may put the energy transition in the ‘back seat’

By Atlantic Council

How will a decarbonized and digitized energy system respond to these growing security challenges?

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

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Mar 30, 2022

Fontenrose joins to NPR to discuss US need for Saudi Arabian and UAE oil and political costs at stake

By Atlantic Council

Middle East Oil and Gas

Global Energy Forum

Mar 29, 2022

How Europe can work its way out of today’s energy-supply crisis—and through the energy transition

By Atlantic Council

The energy-supply crisis and the impact of the war in Ukraine have highlighted the urgency to build secure and resilient supply chains and infrastructure.

Climate Change & Climate Action Crisis Management

Global Energy Forum

Mar 29, 2022

After the war in Ukraine: Where Europe’s energy crisis could be headed next

By Atlantic Council

Putin’s aggression can be the impetus for a Ukrainian energy transformation, one that is not reliant on Russian transit fees and instead deeply connected with friendlier European energy markets.

Crisis Management Energy & Environment

Global Energy Forum

Mar 29, 2022

These island governments are racing to combat climate change amid sea-level rise

By Atlantic Council

Dignitaries from small island nations on Tuesday expressed their frustration with the state of the current global action—or lack thereof—on addressing climate change.

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Marino Auffant

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Reed Blakemore

Director, Research and Programs

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Geopolitics & Energy Security Energy Transitions

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Neil Ford

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Africa Center

Africa Energy & Environment

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Agnia Grigas

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Eastern Europe Energy Markets & Governance

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Mamadou Fall Kane

Nonresident Senior Fellow

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Africa Energy & Environment

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Inwook Kim

Nonresident Fellow

empowerME Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

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The tenth Global Energy Forum will chart the course for continued innovation, collaboration, and leadership in the global energy transition. 
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