COP29: A Veteran's Account of the UN Process
The international climate negotiation process stands at a critical juncture. At the recent COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, nations struggled to find common ground on financial support and carbon market st...
10 Des 202442min
The Cybersecurity Stakes of the Energy Transition
The energy transition is transforming how we power our world – clean energy systems are becoming more interconnected, automated, and reliant on digital infrastructure. But with this transformation com...
3 Des 202452min
Minimizing Damage as Mining for Critical Minerals Ramps Up
The clean energy transition has a dirty underside. To move away from fossil fuels and toward solar, wind, batteries, and other alternative sources of energy, we have to intensify mining operations for...
26 Nov 202448min
Inside the 2024 World Energy Outlook
Rising electricity demand. Heightened geopolitical tension. Fragility in energy markets. These are some of the big stories shaping the energy transition outlined in the International Energy Agency's n...
19 Nov 202457min
Where Climate and Trade Policy Meet
In passing and signing the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, Congress and the Biden administration infused hundreds of billions of dollars into the energy transition. It was the largest investment in ...
12 Nov 202443min
Re-Run: 'The Untold History of Climate Science and Politics'
In 1953, the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series, "From Here to Eternity" won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture. And on May 24 deep in the education section of The ...
5 Nov 202454min
How to Make the Energy Transition More Equitable
Emerging markets and developing economies are set to account for the largest source of emissions growth in the coming decades, according to the International Energy Agency. As population growth in de...
29 Okt 202457min
Balancing AI's Growing Energy Demands
The artificial intelligence boom is fueling a massive uptick in energy demand globally. A Goldman Sachs report from earlier this year claimed that processing a single ChatGPT query requires almost t...
22 Okt 202454min
