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Issue Brief
Mar 21, 2025
To win the AI race, the US needs an all-of-the-above energy strategy
By
Joseph Webster
To ensure US AI leadership, the United States must harness all forms of energy, allow a level playing field, and remove red tape constraining the buildout of critical enablers, especially transmission lines and grid enhancing technologies.
AfricaSource
Mar 20, 2025
If the international community wants to curb fossil fuel emissions, it must make Africa a serious clean energy offer
By
Neil Ford
Before the international community asks African countries to leave undeveloped fossil fuel resources in the ground, it must make them an offer of clean energy financing—one substantial enough to fund Africa’s current and future appetite for electricity.
EnergySource
Mar 11, 2025
The Mediterranean must work collectively to harness the power of renewables
By
Karim Elgendy
The EU Commission’s recent release of its Clean Industrial Deal underscored regional commitment to decarbonization. To capitalize on this momentum, the Mediterranean must engage in cross-border collaboration to overcome geopolitical tension and limited finance to achieve its renewables goals.
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Events
New Atlanticist
Jan 22, 2021
COP26: The key trends to watch ahead of the world’s next climate conference
By
Larry Luxner
COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland—delayed until November 2021—is more likely to produce significant results now that US President Joe Biden occupies the White House, said a group of experts meeting virtually the day after Biden’s inauguration.
Global Energy Forum
Jan 21, 2021
The many new ways energy and national security are intersecting
By
Larry Luxner
Oil and gas will still play a crucial role in the world’s economy even as clean-energy “electrostates” rise in prominence, and Biden will prioritize the threat of climate change like no president has before him.
Global Energy Forum
Jan 20, 2021
Why Iran could top Biden’s Middle East agenda
By
Larry Luxner
Each crisis represents a major US foreign-policy challenge, but all may receive less attention from the new American administration than another pressing issue in the region: Iran’s recent nuclear advances.