International energy security, public policy, and investment expert. Former: Lead Energy Specialist, World Bank; Principal Energy Adviser, UN; Chief Advisor for the Minister of Energy of Ireland; Lead Climate Change Negotiator for the EU on low-carbon technology. Currently: Director Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines. Holds senior research affiliations at Cambridge University, University College Cork, and Oxford University. Member of Council on Foreign Relations, Member of Irish Climate Council. Author of: Analytical Methods for Energy Diversity and Security.
Slower-than-expected growth in the electric vehicle sector, especially in China, combined with supply increases, has weighed heavily on the prices of several critical minerals.
Los minerales críticos -elementos antaño olvidados y cruciales para la tecnología moderna- han pasado a ocupar un lugar destacado en la agenda geopolítica. La "carrera armamentística" mun...
Critical minerals – the once forgotten elements crucial to modern day technology – have made it to the top of the geopolitical agenda. A global battery arms race, driven by the advent of ...
Pressure is building to bring coal-fired power plants worldwide into early retirement, driven mainly by economic and environmental concerns.
The recent UN COP26 climate negotiations once again revealed how the richest nations in the world are not meeting their commitments to the developing world. This was perhaps most powerful...
Solar energy could power 40% of US electricity, drive power grid decarbonization and employ up to 1.5 million people by 2035 – all without raising electricity prices, according to the rec...
New financial instruments are being designed and brought into the fight against climate change. One such potential instrument is the 'carbon retirement portfolio' (CRP).
For emerging and developing economies to meet their energy development and net-zero climate goals, tens of trillions of dollars in renewable energy investment will be required. This is si...
In 2006, Syria entered into a multi-year drought that had a devastating impact on the country’s agricultural harvest and farm animals. Hundreds of thousands of farming families ultimately...
Severe winter weather in Texas caused the worst energy shortages in the United States since the 2003 blackout in the Northeast and Midwest. Millions of people suffered power outages, whic...
约翰·克里帮助制定并将世界各国纳入了《巴黎气候协定》，壮大了美国作为“气候领导者”的声誉。但是现在，美国的这一名声已经支离破碎，当选总统拜登请求克里再度重建它——这一次克里将作为新一届政府的“气候变化问题特使”，进入国家安全委员会。
John Kerry helped bring the world into the Paris climate agreement and expanded America’s reputation as a climate leader. That reputation is now in tatters, and President-elect Joe Biden ...
Over the past decade, the global population of forcibly displaced people (FDP) grew substantially, from 43.3 million in 2009 to 79.5 million in 2019. Last year alone, an estimated 11 mill...
As the world is ensconced in a global public health crisis due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, and the related economic crisis and oil market crash, the path to a low-carbon fu...
The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes (COVID-19) have caused significant disruptions to markets around the world since the virus was first identified in Wuhan City ...
