Tag: Energy
63 Articles
- Business & Economics
Making Sense of the Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkish Involvement in Libya
The number one issue behind the crisis is the question of “overlapping parcels” of gas exploration over which both TRNC and GASC claim authority, and thus various…
June 15, 2020
- Business & Economics
Climate Change and the Insurance Industry: Managing Risk in a Risky Time
Under the banner of “sustainable insurance,” a growing number of companies have committed themselves to reducing their own carbon footprints, improving their underwriting…
June 9, 2020
- Science & Technology
Denmark-California: A Partnership for Sustainability
The answer is closely aligned with core Danish foreign policy priorities, among them being a strong focus on economic diplomacy. Denmark is a small, open economy, generating more…
June 2, 2020
- Global Governance
Defining Problems in the Face of Urgency: Climate Change and the Arctic
History matters. When dinosaurs roamed the planet (250 – 60 million years ago), the climate was several degrees hotter than at present. In the following fifty million years,…
June 1, 2020
- Business & Economics
Natural Gas Discoveries and Israel’s Energy Security
Israel’s Natural Gas Supply In 2018, Israel’s primary energy consumption came mainly from petroleum and other liquids (44.7 percent), natural gas (35 percent), and coal (18.3…
May 25, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
How Natural Resource (Mis-)management in the Nile River Basin May Threaten Stability
If managed properly, the GERD offers benefits to Ethiopia and the wider region. Ethiopia sees domestic electrification and international energy sales from the GERD as its pathway…
May 20, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
Oil, Ethnic Conflict, and Necessary and Sufficient Reforms
Guyana, a small, English-speaking country of about 780,000 people in South America, comes out at the bottom of the Human Development Index ranking of the fifteen full members of…
May 12, 2020
- Business & Economics
Russia’s Energy Paradox: The New Energy Order, Global Crisis, and Enduring Resource Addiction
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic and price war in March 2020, it was evident that the oil and gas industry faced a new energy order. The shale revolution has created a more…
April 30, 2020
- Global Governance
Politics at the End of the Anthropocene
The above introduction was supposed to be the opening of a text focusing on the overlap of the climate crisis, right-wing authoritarianism, and the origins of both in our fossil…
April 20, 2020
- Science & Technology
The Oil Price Collapse Could Reshape Global Natural Gas Markets
China, where COVID-19 originated, was one of the primary sources of global natural gas demand growth, and its mitigation measurements have severely curtailed energy demand. The…
March 27, 2020