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Global Energy Agenda

Feb 20, 2025

The 2025 Global Energy Agenda

By Landon Derentz, Christine Suh, Paul Kielstra, Bailee Mathews (Editors)

The Atlantic Council is pleased to present its fifth Global Energy Agenda. As in prior years, this collection of essays is complemented by our in-depth analysis of the results of the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center’s annual global energy survey. 

Energy & Environment Geopolitics & Energy Security

ISSUE BRIEFS & REPORTS

Issue Brief

Jun 12, 2025

Energy strategy across the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean

By Phillip Cornell

The energy landscape of the ASIO region is also a key component of broader, global geopolitical and strategic change.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
A LB Steel LLC's employee manufactures a component for new Amtrak Acela trains built in partnership with Alstom in Harvey, Illinois, U.S. December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski

Issue Brief

Jun 12, 2025

Building for tomorrow: Preparing US industry to compete in a lower-carbon global economy

By David L. Goldwyn, Andrea Clabough

The question for US policymakers is not whether to compete, but how.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

Issue Brief

May 14, 2025

The United States’ role in managing the nuclear fuel cycle

By Kemal Pasamehmetoglu

Global nuclear energy generation is likely to increase significantly in the next few decades. This expansion provides an opportunity for the United States to shape the global nuclear energy landscape and set a high bar for standards of safety, security, and nonproliferation for the nuclear fuel cycle.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy Markets & Governance

Issue Brief

Apr 4, 2025

Building a path toward global deployment of fusion: Nonproliferation and export considerations

By Sachin Desai, Michael Hua, Amy Roma, Jessica Bufford, Jacqueline Siebens, Andrew Proffitt

With commercial fusion on the horizon, questions around the process for regulating fusion power plants have arisen.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

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.

Artificial Intelligence China

Report

Feb 24, 2025

Atoms for Appalachia: The role of nuclear energy in economic development

By Lauren Hughes

Advanced nuclear technologies can drive economic security and energy security within Appalachian states.

Economy & Business Energy & Environment

Global Energy Agenda

Feb 20, 2025

Ukraine can unleash energy investment even amid war

By Volodymyr Kudrytskyi

To bolster energy security in Ukraine, its leaders must foster stability for investors to finance new, decentralized power generation. Achieving this will require overcoming three key challenges.

Energy & Environment Geopolitics & Energy Security

Global Energy Agenda

Feb 20, 2025

The US must assure its energy-secure future

By Meredith Berger

At the US Department of the Navy, energy security is mission assurance. This reality has led to its national security strategy to prioritize a diversified, resilient, and independent energy system to prepare for known and unknown threats.

Americas Energy & Environment

Global Energy Agenda

Feb 20, 2025

The importance of US LNG for economic growth and the global energy transition 

By Daniel Yergin and Madeline Jowdy

The emergence of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a remarkable story. In less than a decade, the United States has gone from zero exports to being the world’s largest exporter.

Energy & Environment Energy Transitions

Global Energy Agenda

Feb 20, 2025

Southeast Asia aims for sustainability through connectivity

By Kok Keong Puah

As Southeast Asia’s energy demand rises, the region’s energy transition stands at an inflection point. Looking ahead, this growth presents the region with an enormous challenge, but also the opportunity to be a leader in the global energy transition.

East Asia Energy & Environment
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