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Energy in the State of the Union: Not a Bad Place to Start

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Last night, President Barack Obama delivered the State of the Union address to Congress. The speech is being characterized by many in the media as many things: populist in tone, a campaign year positioning speech, and a mild tongue-lashing for Congress.

The Latest in the Keystone XL Pipeline Saga

sherry — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

On January 18, 2012, the Obama administration officially denied the TransCanada application for a Presidential Permit for a 1,700-mile-long pipeline, known as Keystone XL, which would bring approximately 800,000 barrels of oil per day from the Canadian oil sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

A Pragmatic Approach to Energy Policy: The President’s Job Council Report

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Yesterday, the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness released a report, “Road Map to Renewal,” on a variety of ways to boost jobs and competitiveness in the United States.

Energy and Development Trends

jdunton — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

One of the least understood but potentially important trends in the energy field is how emerging economies’ development priorities are shaping energy markets.

Much Ado about a Pipeline

ian — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500

The U.S. government is in the final stages of deciding whether a major new pipeline project bringing oil-sands-derived crude oil from Canada to the United States is in the U.S.

China—Leader or Laggard on the Path to a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy Future?

jdunton — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

There has been a great deal of talk about whether and how China will manage its need to provide enough energy to ensure continued economic growth while avoiding the local and global environmental impacts of its energy production and use. To listen to the political discourse, China is either a global leader on clean energy technologies and transformation or the largest source of emissions with serious, systemic local environmental degradation. How can it at once be a low-carbon leader and a laggard?

The Future of Low Carbon Growth

ian — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400

In the wake of the economic crisis, the conversation about global cooperation to deal with climate change has shifted almost entirely to a discussion about the competitive economic advantage to be gained from leading in socalled clean energy technologies.

Energy and Environment in the Barack Obama–Hu Jintao Meeting

mentman — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0500

A number of events during President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States will underscore that the energy dialogue between the United States and China continues to be a key area of engagement, where both sides can point to recent successes, but it is not without threat of derailment.

Energy and Climate Change Implications of the QDDR

mentman — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500

The QDDR included three relevant sections on energy and climate change, each of which elevates the importance of the energy and climate agenda in U.S. foreign and development policy.

Cancun Climate Negotiation

ian — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500

For the last two weeks international climate negotiators met in Cancun, Mexico for the 16th Conference of Parties (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The Geopolitics of Energy

jdunton — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400

For a variety of reasons—population growth, development, economics, investment and infrastructure needs, geopolitics, policy/governance, and the expected impacts of climate change, to name but a few—the current global energy system is unsustainable in its present form.

Asia's Response to Climate Change and Natural Disasters

jdunton — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

This new report by energy, regional, and humanitarian disaster specialists at CSIS examines the politics of climate change in Asia, the region’s response to natural disasters, and the implications for the future geometry of Asia’s institutions and U.S. policy in the region. The assessment looks broadly at two areas of nontraditional security cooperation in Asia: (1) climate change, including the domestic political factors in Asia and the regional strategies for securing low-carbon pathways; and (2) regional approaches to disaster management. The volume draws on case studies to assess the utility of existing and emerging institutions—the promises as well as the problems—as the United States and the region seek greater cooperation on both traditional and nontraditional security challenges. The authors discuss the problems related to lack of coordination at different levels, the uncertain role of the military, and continuing gaps in resources and expertise in key organizations.

Earth Observation for Climate Change

ian — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Until this year, America’s civil space policies—and the budgets that derive from it—were shaped to a considerable degree by the political imperatives of the past and by the romantic fiction of spaceflight.

Adapting for Future Resource Challenges

mentman — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400

To date, efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to slow and eventually reverse the negative impacts of a changing climate have received most of the political and popular attention afforded to the issue of climate change.

In Search of Plan B

lhyland — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400

The time has come for a new approach to moving U.S. energy and climate policy forward.

Understanding “Green Jobs”

ian — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500

The U.S. economy has lost over 7 million jobs in the past two years and has a 9.7 percent unemployment rate.1 Despite signs of economic recovery, job creation has been slow going and it will probably take many years for the United States to return to previous employment levels.

Assessing the Global Green Stimulus

lhyland — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Over the past year, some of the world’s leading economies have responded to the global financial crisis with large stimulus packages. Many of those packages included a significant “green” component aimed at positioning the countries to be competitive in the carbon-constrained global economy of the twenty-first century.

Post Copenhagen Pathways

lhyland — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

To even more than the casual observer, the events that transpired at the global climate change negotiations in Copenhagen are somewhat mystifying. For veterans of international processes and meetings, it is hard to believe that so many countries could come together for such a large and anticipated event with no pre-planned resolution.

The Final Day in Copenhagen

ian — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Q1: What is likely to be achieved at the climate change talks in Copenhagen?

Next Steps for the Transatlantic Climate Change Partnership

jdunton — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

For much of the last two years the international community has worked toward developing an international agreement to lay out the basic framework of a new climate change regime. The slow progress to date does not result from a lack of effort or opportunity. The European Union has set forth ambitious goals and continues to urge all developed countries to follow suit.

Crunch-Time in Copenhagen

lhyland — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The international community is more than halfway through the final negotiating period to reach a climate change deal in Copenhagen. Despite the optimistic turn of events in the weeks leading up to the negotiations which brought new pledges from several countries including the United States, China, India, Brazil, and others, the potential for a political agreement envisioned by the s

The Day after Copenhagen

ian — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

As the international negotiations on climate change in Copenhagen draw nearer, negotiators and political leaders are struggling to combat the growing public perception that the talks are destined for failure.

Energy and Climate Change at the North American Leaders Summit

ian — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Q1: Will energy and climate change be on the agenda for the upcoming North American Leaders Summit?

Energy and Climate Change at the G-8 Summit

sherry — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Q1: Were there any significant outcomes or agreements on energy and climate that emerged from the G-8 summit and Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) meetings?

Energy and Climate Change at the Upcoming G-8 Summit

sherry — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Q1: Will energy and climate change be on the agenda for discussion at the G-8 Summit in L’Aquila, Italy, on July 8?

Crossing the Natural Gas Bridge

ian — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

While natural gas can play a critical role during the transition to a secure, low-carbon economy, there are both climate and energy security risks associated with a dramatic shift to natural gas.

A Roadmap for a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy Economy

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

At first glance, improving energy security and addressing climate change may seem irreconcilable goals: achieve an adequate, reliable, and affordable energy supply for the United States, while at the same time reducing emissions of dangerous global warming gases into the atmosphere.

Evaluating the Energy Security Implications of a Carbon-Constrained U.S. Economy

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Technology plays an important role in determining how energy is produced, delivered, and consumed.

OPEC Production and the Falling Price of Oil

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

What does the apparent lack of a price response to an OPEC production quota cut tell us about the current market and what can we expect going forward?

Managing the Transition to a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy Future

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In the years to come, the world must meet the energy needs of a growing and developing world population while mitigating the impacts of global climate change.

The UN Climate Change Conference

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500

The purpose of the annual UN Climate Change Conference, held over two weeks this year in Bali, was to determine the scope and timetable for negotiating a climate agreement for when the Kyoto Protoc

Post - 2012 Framework on Climate Change in Global Forecast: the Top Security Challenges of 2008

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

More than 10 years ago, the international community set forth an international framework for global action through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol.…

Natural Gas, Energy Policy, and Regional Integration

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Given the dramatic shifts in energy policy in key producing countries of the region with the wave of economic liberalization that swept through Latin America during the 1990s, the Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies held a conference in Washington, D.C.

Strategy Report Vol 2, No. 17

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400

On March 29th, Sarah Ladislaw, Fellow in the Energy Program, presented a Strategy Hour on current global energy trends. She concentrates on issues related to the geopolitical implications of energy production …