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Nov 8, 2018

The climate finance partnership: Mobilizing institutional capital to address the climate opportunity

By John E. Morton

It has been impossible to attend any serious climate change conference over the past decade that hasn’t included a significant, and ever-increasing, focus on the topic of private capital mobilization—institutional capital, more specifically. Why? There are two main reasons, one driven by the enormity and immediacy of the challenge, the other by the scale of […]

Climate Change & Climate Action Renewables & Advanced Energy

New Atlanticist

Oct 15, 2018

Global economic leaders should prepare for ‘unknown unknowns’ of climate change

By Valerie Rouxel-Laxton

he economic and financial leaders gathered in Bali last week have the influence to drive change, which can only be addressed through significant international cooperation. Will our leaders rise to the challenge?

Climate Change & Climate Action Renewables & Advanced Energy

Event Recap

Sep 25, 2018

New energy opportunities in Africa

By Africa Center and Global Energy Center

On the margins of the 73rd ordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and Global Energy Center hosted a half-day conference focusing on new opportunities for development across Africa’s energy sector. The event featured welcoming and introductory remarks by Dr. J. Peter Pham, Atlantic Council vice president and Africa […]

Africa Economy & Business

EnergySource

Sep 20, 2018

Low-carbon fuel innovation and the California policy environment

By Randolph Bell

The transportation sector, and particularly aviation and maritime transport, pose unique challenges in the transition to lower-carbon energy sources. However, California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard has ushered in significant investment and innovation and the state is leading the way in advanced fuels. In an interview with Randolph Bell, director of the Atlantic Council Global Energy […]

Americas Energy Transitions

Report

Sep 11, 2018

Climate leadership in uncertain times

By Joshua Busby and Nigel Purvis

In the wake of turbulence in efforts to address climate change and the current absence of US federal leadership, it is important for motivated states and actors to identify a handful of high-impact areas where progress can be made and work to specifically address them.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

EnergySource

Sep 4, 2018

US-Denmark energy cooperation: A “win(d)-win(d) situation”

By Becca Hunziker

When President Trump announced that his goal for American energy was not just energy independence, but “energy dominance,” he outlined six steps his administration would pursue with that goal in mind: reviving and expanding the nuclear energy sector, addressing barriers to financing highly efficient overseas coal energy plants, constructing a new pipeline to Mexico, negotiating […]

Energy Transitions Northern Europe

Timely Commentary & Analysis

Aug 6, 2018

Bolivia’s role in the energy transition threatened by lithium uncertainty

By Herbert Crowther

Electric vehicles (EVs) will play a central role in any potential global transition away from hydrocarbons and towards a more sustainable energy future. Projections of EV growth are widely bullish: by 2040, Bloomberg New Energy Finance projects 55 percent of new car sales and 33 percent of the global fleet will be EVs, while BP […]

Americas Energy & Environment

EnergySource

Jul 9, 2018

The UAE’s energy future: A long-term strategy beyond hydrocarbons

By Herbert Crowther

The world’s largest single-site solar park and the world’s first attempt at a carbon neutral, self-sustainable city can both be found in what might seem to be an unlikely location: the heart of the Arabian Gulf. Both projects are funded by and located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a geographically small state that holds […]

Energy Transitions Renewables & Advanced Energy

EnergySource

Jun 28, 2018

Seizing advanced energy opportunities in Northeast Ohio

By David Livingston

An Atlantic Council Global Energy Center delegation, including General James Jones (Ret), Vice Admiral Lee Gunn (Ret), Amb. Richard Morningstar (Ret), former mayor of Cleveland Jane Campbell, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy Joe Bryan, recently visited Cleveland, Ohio, to better understand the city’s clean energy economy and innovation ecosystem.  During […]

Americas Energy Transitions

EnergySource

Jun 25, 2018

Geothermal: A “cool” heating resource

By Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir

This piece is the second in a series examining geothermal potential in Iceland and elsewhere and the contribution geothermal resources can make to energy security and diversification, as well as sustainability and emissions reductions. You can read the first piece in the series here. The first piece in this series focused on the development and […]

Renewables & Advanced Energy

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