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This week, CSIS experts Joseph Majkut, Ben Cahill, and Gracelin Baskaran cover recent developments in global oil markets, BRICS expansion, critical minerals, and the geopolitics of energy.    Further Reading from the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program Oil Market Tightens but China Looms Large  Six New BRICS: Implications for Energy Trade  Prospects for U.S. Minerals Engagement with Af...

This week, Adi Imsirovic (Surrey Clean Energy) joins Ben Cahill (CSIS) to discuss developments in global oil markets, demand and supply outlooks for the rest of 2023, and the OPEC+ - Russia relationship.  Adi is the Director at Surrey Clean Energy and former Global Head of Oil Trading at Gazprom Marketing and Trading, and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He...

This week, Simone Tagliapietra, a Senior Fellow with Bruegel, joins CSIS program director Joseph Majkut to discuss how Europe is managing the ongoing energy crisis and moving away from Russian energy supplies while advancing decarbonization efforts, also look at the future of energy security in Europe, and the state of U.S.-EU energy policy cooperation. Further Reading After the great energy crisi...

In this week’s episode, Steven Burns, Chief Director of Energy and Infrastructure for Europe and Eurasia, USAID, joins Ben Cahill with the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program, for an update on Ukraine’s energy sector. Steve describes the current state of Ukraine’s energy sector and the extensive damage done by Russian attacks this past winter, especially to the electricity sector. Stev...

This week, David Fishman, a Senior Manager at The Lantau Group, joins Cy McGeady to look at the Chinese electric power sector. China is leading in renewable energy deployment but at the same time is building and using coal-fired power plants. David and Cy look at the Chinese sector to understand how both these things can be true and what it means for China’s energy future.  

This week, Rick Rossow, Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies here at CSIS, joins Joseph Majkut to discuss India’s ambitious renewable energy targets, where it is exceeding or failing to meet those targets, subnational collaboration with counterparts in U.S. states, and India’s position on the world stage over the next decade. Further Reading: Accelerate: 175: A Plan for Targeted Renewable Energy Coo...

This week, Laszlo Varro (Shell) joins Joseph Majkut (CSIS) to discuss the latest Shell Scenarios, called Sky and Archipelago, and how they relate to the world’s present geopolitical, energy, and climate developments. Laszlo Varro is Vice-President, Global Business Environment at Shell, where he leads their analyses of energy scenarios, macroeconomics, climate policy, and geopolitics. Varro joined...

This week, Tatsuya Terazawa, Chairman and CEO of The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ), joins Jane Nakano (CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program) to look at key energy and climate issues on the G7 agenda. In April, Japan hosted the G7 Ministers Meeting on Climate, Energy, and Environment, in advance of the upcoming G7 Summit on May 19-21. They discuss highlights from the G7’s C...

This week, Noah Kaufman (Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University) joins Joseph Majkut (Energy Security and Climate Change Program at CSIS) to discuss the recent Executive Order on modernizing the regulatory review process, and its implications and benefits for the U.S. climate regulations.    Executive Order on Modernizing Regulatory Review Preamble: Proposed OMB Circular No. A-4, “R...

This week, Allison Good with S&P Global Market intelligence talks with Cy McGeady with the CSIS Energy Program about how changing conditions in the capital markets may affect the U.S. energy transition. They discuss three recent shifts in the economic landscape and the role these play in shaping the renewable energy sector: the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank, implementation of the Inflation R...

This week Ben Cahill talks with Joseph Majkut about his recent work on efforts to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. The EPA is developing new U.S. methane regulations, due out later this year, and the EU is advancing methane legislation, though progress slowed over the last year. Ben also looks head for next steps for both countries, especially in the months leading up to COP...

This week, Jamie Webster with the Center for Energy Impact at BCG joins Ben Cahill (CSIS) to discuss energy transitions, what peak demand really means, and the resulting shifts in the global energy system. 

This week, Steve LeVine joins Jane Nakano (CSIS) to discuss recent developments in the U.S. electric vehicle market and battery supply chain. Steve is editor of the Electric, a new publication looking at batteries, electric vehicles, and their impact on society, cities, and geopolitics. Further reading: U.S. Push to Secure EV Battery Supply Chains and the Role of China The Electric by Steve LeVine

This week, Hal Harvey (CEO of Energy Innovation and co-author of The Big Fix) joins Joseph Majkut (CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program) to talk about the progress he is seeing on clean energy goals and climate solutions, especially in the United States in light of the Inflation Reduction Act. Further Reading:  The Big Fix Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet Top State Policies To C...

This week, Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota joins Joseph Majkut (CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program) to discuss energy and climate issues in the 118th Congress, the potential for bipartisan policymaking, the role of the United States as an energy exporter and the opportunity for U.S leadership in global energy security.

This week, Dr. Tatiana Mitrova (Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University) and Ben Cahill (Energy Security and Climate Change Program at CSIS) provide an outlook for the Russian oil sector, including the EU and G7 price cap on Russian oil and its impacts on the Russian economy. Further Reading: Can Russia’s War Chest Withstand the New Oil Cap? Progress Report on EU Embargo and Russian...

EIA Administrator Dr. Joe DeCarolis joined CSIS Senior Fellow Ben Cahill for a discussion on priorities for EIA, outlining the role of EIA, how its data can be most useful to policymakers, and his plans for changes and improvements in the coming year.  Dr. Joseph DeCarolis was confirmed Administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on March 31, 2022. Before his appointment, Dr....

In our final episode of 2022, Kevin Book (ClearView Energy Partners) and Liam Denning (Bloomberg) join Joseph Majkut (CSIS) to make sense of the many energy and climate developments in 2022 and look at some under the radar issues to watch next year.

This week Dr. Friederike Otto with the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London joins Dr. Joseph Majkut (CSIS) to discuss climate change attribution, which measures how climate change directly affects extreme weather events, like heat waves, floods, or droughts. Dr. Friederike (Fredi) Otto is a Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the Grantham Institute...

This week, finance industry veteran and author Terrence Keeley joins Joseph Majkut to discuss his book “Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG to Impact Investing”, and the promises and limitations of ESG investing. More Reading: Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG to Impact Investing “Why ESG Funds Fail, and How They Could Succeed” "Was Milton Friedman the First 'Woke' Capitalist?" Terrence Keeley has been an...

Did energy and climate play a role in the US midterm elections?  David Goldwyn and Joseph Majkut look at how the energy and climate agendas may have factored into specific elections and what the outcome means now for the U.S. domestic and international energy and climate agendas.    David Goldwyn is president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, LLC, an international energy advisory consultancy and chair...

This week Joseph Majkut talks with David Victor, professor with the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego and author, with Charles Sabel, of Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World.  David and Joseph look at how the process of global climate governance has shaped the climate community, providing examples for where leaders in government, civil society and the private se...

This week, Joseph Majkut (CSIS) talks with Mike Catanzaro (CGCN) and Marcela Mulholland (Data for Progress) about the need for permitting reform to allow for new energy infrastructure to be built in the United States. Without significant reforms to the permitting process, energy security and the climate agenda in the U.S. could be at risk as new energy projects will see continued delays and strugg...

Gerassimos Thomas, the Director-General at the European Commission in charge of Taxation and Customs Union, spoke with Joseph Majkut about the energy challenges in Europe this winter, the future of energy security and climate measures, and the state of U.S.-EU cooperation.

Last month, climate and clean energy experts convened in New York for Climate Week 2022 and then Pittsburgh for the Global Clean Energy Action Forum. With ambitious agendas set out for each, we asked 3 people who participated in the formal and informal events which discussions caught their attention: Kartikeya Singh (Climate Imperative Foundation and a CSIS non-resident associate), Sandeep Pai (CS...