Climate and Energy

 
  • Article
    Protecting Coastal Cities From Rising Seas
    Victoria Herrmann, Shin-pei Tsay May 16, 2013

    Rising sea levels threaten some of the world's largest megacities. With billions of dollars and the security of millions of people at risk, the time to act is now.

     
  • Other Publications
    A Euro-Atlantic Action Plan for Cooperation and Enhanced Arctic Security
    Ross Virginia, Michael Sfraga, James Collins, Kenneth Yalowitz May 14, 2013 Conference Report and Recommendations to the Arctic Council and Interested Parties

    Climate change is making it increasingly likely that the Arctic will be developed for commercial purposes. This underscores the need for the Arctic countries to cooperate to prevent conflict and to defend the interests of the indigenous populations living in the region.

     
  • Q&A
    Multinationals Can Go From Polluter to Protector of China’s Environment
    Ma Jun May 13, 2013 中文

    Multinational corporations need to take the first crucial step of setting environmental-protection standards for their suppliers.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Hands Across the Melting Ice
    Kenneth Yalowitz, Ross Virginia, James Collins May 13, 2013 International Herald Tribune

    The Arctic states of North America, Europe, and Russia, working with indigenous peoples and a number of non-Arctic states, have taken steps to ensure that the Arctic remains a zone of cooperation, peace, and sustainable development.

     
  • Q&A
    America’s Oil Wealth: Use It Wisely
    Deborah Gordon April 17, 2013

    The world is not running out of oil—in fact, it may never run out of hydrocarbons. But new oils must be carefully analyzed before the environment is irreparably damaged.

     
  • Article
    Addressing China’s Energy Insecurity
    Zha Daojiong April 16, 2013 中文

    Energy security in China can be improved by diversifying away from highly polluting coal and by freeing up the country’s energy import and export market.

     
  • Op-Ed
    All Must Share the Cost of Haze Treatment in China
    Wang Tao April 3, 2013 Chinese Financial Times

    Government, oil companies, and consumers must all bear a share of the burden if air pollution in China is going to be effectively tackled.

     
  • Article
    Solving Tajikistan’s Energy Crisis
    Eli Keene March 25, 2013

    The Tajik president should rethink his commitment to building the controversial Rogun Dam and explore other ways to revamp the country’s energy sector.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Troubles With Airport Expansion in China
    Wang Tao March 18, 2013 East Asia Forum 中文

    China’s current transportation development plans call for huge numbers of new airports, but building them looks to be untenable, both economically and environmentally.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Transportation Energy Taxes Are Well Worth a Try
    David Burwell March 12, 2013 Hill

    Transportation energy taxes, when applied along the supply chain, can better allocate the costs of burning fuels, encourage efficiency, raise money for the U.S. transportation system, and help the planet.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    China-Russia Energy Cooperation
    Wang Tao March 31, 2013 CCTV

    China should not lose sight of the need to develop more sustainable and renewable ways of meeting its energy demands, even as the country looks set to form new energy ties with Russia.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Measures to Reduce Pollution
    Wang Tao March 1, 2013 CCTV

    Beijing's new fuel emission standards make the city a leader in improving China's air quality.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    On The Line: Oil and Gas Bonanza
    David Burwell December 7, 2012 Voice of America

    Oil and gas supplies are booming around the world as new drilling technologies make it possible to recover untapped resources.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Unconventional Energy
    David Burwell December 6, 2012 E&E TV

    Today's impasse in energy and cliamte policy in the United States presents an opportunity for presidental leadership as unconventional energy geographies shift to North America.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Climate Negotiations at Doha
    Wang Tao December 3, 2012 CNTV

    For the negotiations at Doha to be successful, compromises must be reached on financial support for developing countries and on the Kyoto protocol second commitment period.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    China's Climate Change Policy and Doha
    Wang Tao November 26, 2012 CNTV

    In the run-up to Doha, China has made its commitment to curbing fossil fuel emissions clear.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    From Conventional to Unconventional Oil
    Deborah Gordon September 12, 2012 U.S. Embassy Berlin

    The shift from extracting, processing, and consuming conventional fuel sources to unconventional oils carries a host of still unknown consequences for international economics, technology development, and the environment.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Ethanol Production
    Wang Tao August 7, 2012 Caixin

    While the market for ethanol fuel in China is large, the environmental strain of different production methods must be taken into consideration.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Bohai Bay Oil Spills
    Wang Tao July 14, 2012 CCTV

    The Bohai Bay oil spill serves as an example of the grave environmental risks of drilling for oil and the need for government oversight of oil companies.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Energy Security in the South China Sea
    Wang Tao July 8, 2012 CCTV

    Although the South China Sea offers the potential to alleviate China's dependence on foreign oil, maintaining peace in the region is more critical to China’s energy security than the exploitation of the resources in the region.

     
  • Event
    France’s Future Role in the World
    Jean-Yves Le Drian, George Perkovich May 17, 2013 Washington, DC

    One year after President François Hollande took office, his administration’s new Defense White Paper outlines a significantly scaled down presence for the French military.

     
  • Event
    Governing Sustainability Globally
    Mark Halle, Wang Tao April 25, 2013 Beijing

    Legal frameworks for international cooperation on sustainable development are not adjusting quickly enough to the problems of rapid development in new emerging powers.

     
  • Event
    Energy Markets: U.S. Myths, Chinese Reality
    Edward Cunningham, Paul Haenle March 27, 2013 Beijing

    Changes in the U.S. role in the Middle East, coupled with China's growing energy needs, may spur China's further integration into the global energy market.

     
  • Event
    Improving Energy Efficiency in Ukraine’s Residential Housing Sector
    Laura Van Wie McGrory, Ola Göransson, Matthew Rojansky, Andrei Lobatch, Grzegorz Gajda, Alexander Alipov, Valery Saratov, Jeffrey Harris March 26, 2013 Washington, D.C.

    Residential housing is the second-largest energy consumer in Ukraine after heavy industry. It accounts for 30 percent of the country’s total energy needs. The sector’s energy inefficiency is viewed as a critical factor in Ukraine’s dependence on Russian gas.

     
  • Event
    Transport Beyond Oil
    Heather Boyer, David Burwell, Kevin DeGood, Deborah Gordon, Joanne Potter, Deron Lovaas, Billy Fields, John Renne, Tony Hull, Kevin Mills March 22, 2013 Washington, DC

    Seventy percent of the oil America uses each year is consumed by transportation. Any effective strategy to meet U.S. and global climate protection goals therefore requires that oil consumption in the transport sector be significantly reduced.

     
  • Event
    China-Middle East Relations: A Change in Policy?
    David Schenker March 18, 2013 Beijing

    Religious conflict, border disputes, and ethnic divisions have resulted in decades of upheaval throughout the Middle East. In the past, concerns about energy security—as well as longstanding commitments to allies and friends—have prompted U.S. engagement and intervention in that area.

     
  • Event
    U.S.-China Coal Value Chain Exchange Conference
    David Burwell, Kevin Tu March 7, 2013 Washington, DC

    China and the United States are the world’s two largest coal producing economies and account together for more than 60 percent of global coal consumption.

     
  • Event
    The Doha Climate Conference and Prospects for Climate Talks
    Wang Tao January 30, 2013 Beijing

    The climate talks in Doha fell short of expectations. One major factor behind this disappointment was increased distrust between developed and developing countries.

     
  • Event
    The Next Generation of Russian Oil: Will the Future Be Unconventional?
    Thane Gustafson, David Burwell, Deborah Gordon January 24, 2013 Washington, D.C.

    It remains to be seen whether Russia will continue to give high priority to Arctic oil development if the tight-oil revolution from North America spreads quickly to Russia, driving a renaissance of West Siberia.

     
  • Event
    Transatlantic Dialogue on Sustainable Urban Transport
    Colin Hughes, David Burwell, Shin-pei Tsay, Siegfried Rupprecht, Vincent Leiner January 14, 2013 Washington, D.C.

    Establishing frameworks and institutions to guide the development of urban transport systems remains challenging at both the national and supranational levels.

     
  • Event
    France’s Future Role in the World
    Jean-Yves Le Drian, George Perkovich May 17, 2013 Washington, DC

    One year after President François Hollande took office, his administration’s new Defense White Paper outlines a significantly scaled down presence for the French military.

     
  • Article
    Protecting Coastal Cities From Rising Seas
    Victoria Herrmann, Shin-pei Tsay May 16, 2013

    Rising sea levels threaten some of the world's largest megacities. With billions of dollars and the security of millions of people at risk, the time to act is now.

     
  • Other Publications
    A Euro-Atlantic Action Plan for Cooperation and Enhanced Arctic Security
    Ross Virginia, Michael Sfraga, James Collins, Kenneth Yalowitz May 14, 2013 Conference Report and Recommendations to the Arctic Council and Interested Parties

    Climate change is making it increasingly likely that the Arctic will be developed for commercial purposes. This underscores the need for the Arctic countries to cooperate to prevent conflict and to defend the interests of the indigenous populations living in the region.

     
  • Q&A
    Multinationals Can Go From Polluter to Protector of China’s Environment
    Ma Jun May 13, 2013 中文

    Multinational corporations need to take the first crucial step of setting environmental-protection standards for their suppliers.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Hands Across the Melting Ice
    Kenneth Yalowitz, Ross Virginia, James Collins May 13, 2013 International Herald Tribune

    The Arctic states of North America, Europe, and Russia, working with indigenous peoples and a number of non-Arctic states, have taken steps to ensure that the Arctic remains a zone of cooperation, peace, and sustainable development.

     
  • Event
    Governing Sustainability Globally
    Mark Halle, Wang Tao April 25, 2013 Beijing

    Legal frameworks for international cooperation on sustainable development are not adjusting quickly enough to the problems of rapid development in new emerging powers.

     
  • Q&A
    America’s Oil Wealth: Use It Wisely
    Deborah Gordon April 17, 2013

    The world is not running out of oil—in fact, it may never run out of hydrocarbons. But new oils must be carefully analyzed before the environment is irreparably damaged.

     
  • Article
    Addressing China’s Energy Insecurity
    Zha Daojiong April 16, 2013 中文

    Energy security in China can be improved by diversifying away from highly polluting coal and by freeing up the country’s energy import and export market.

     
  • Op-Ed
    All Must Share the Cost of Haze Treatment in China
    Wang Tao April 3, 2013 Chinese Financial Times

    Government, oil companies, and consumers must all bear a share of the burden if air pollution in China is going to be effectively tackled.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    China-Russia Energy Cooperation
    Wang Tao March 31, 2013 CCTV

    China should not lose sight of the need to develop more sustainable and renewable ways of meeting its energy demands, even as the country looks set to form new energy ties with Russia.

     

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  • James M. Acton
    Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Acton is a senior associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. A physicist by training, Acton specializes in nonproliferation, deterrence, and disarmament.

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  • Alexei Arbatov
    Scholar in Residence
    Nonproliferation Program
    Moscow Center

    Arbatov, a former member of the State Duma, is the author of a number of books and numerous articles and papers on issues of global security, strategic stability, disarmament, and Russian military reform.

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  • David Burwell
    Director
    Energy and Climate Program

    Burwell is director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment. His work focuses on the intersection between energy, transportation, and climate issues, as well as policies and practice reforms to reduce global dependence on fossil fuels.

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  • Shahram Chubin
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Chubin, who is based in Geneva, focuses his research on nonproliferation, terrorism, and Middle East security issues. He was director of studies at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland, from 1996 to 2009.

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  • Toby Dalton
    Deputy Director
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Dalton is the deputy director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. An expert on nonproliferation and nuclear energy, his research focuses on cooperative nuclear security initiatives and the management of nuclear challenges in South Asia and East Asia.

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  • Pierre Goldschmidt
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Goldschmidt is a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment.

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  • Deborah Gordon
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Energy and Climate Program

    Gordon is a nonresident senior associate in Carnegie’s Energy and Climate Program, where her research focuses on oil, climate, energy, and transportation issues in the United States, China, and globally.

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  • Mark Hibbs
    Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Hibbs is a Berlin-based senior associate in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program. Before joining Carnegie, for over twenty years he was an editor and correspondent for nuclear energy publications, including Nucleonics Week and NuclearFuel, published by the Platts division of the McGraw-Hill Companies.

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  • Togzhan Kassenova
    Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Kassenova is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow.

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  • Fatima Kukeyeva
    Co-director
    al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia

    Kukeyeva is co-director of the al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia.

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  • Tomoko Kurokawa
    Visiting Scholar
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Kurokawa is a visiting scholar in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program.

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  • Ariel (Eli) Levite
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Levite was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007.

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  • Alexey Malashenko
    Scholar in Residence
    Religion, Society, and Security Program
    Moscow Center

    Malashenko is the co-chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Religion, Society, and Security Program. He also taught at the Higher School of Economics from 2007 to 2008 and was a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations from 2000 to 2006.

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  • Jessica Tuchman Mathews
    President

    Mathews is president of the Carnegie Endowment. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy.

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  • Moisés Naím
    Senior Associate
    International Economics Program

    Naím is a senior associate in Carnegie’s International Economics Program, where his research focuses on international economics and global politics. He is currently the chief international columnist for El País, Spain’s largest newspaper, and his weekly column is published worldwide.

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  • George Perkovich
    Vice President for Studies

    Perkovich’s research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a concentration on South Asia, Iran, and the problem of justice in the international political economy.

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  • Karim Sadjadpour
    Senior Associate
    Middle East Program

    Sadjadpour, a leading researcher on Iran, has conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others.

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  • James L. Schoff
    Senior Associate
    Asia Program

    Schoff is a senior associate in the Carnegie Asia Program. His research focuses on U.S.-Japanese relations and regional engagement, Japanese politics and security, and the private sector’s role in Japanese policymaking.

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  • Paul Schulte
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie Europe

    Schulte is a nonresident senior associate in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on the future of deterrence, nuclear strategy, nuclear nonproliferation, cybersecurity, and their political implications.

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  • Ashley J. Tellis
    Senior Associate
    South Asia Program

    Tellis is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace specializing in international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues.

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  • Petr Topychkanov
    Associate
    Nonproliferation Program
    Moscow Center

    Topychkanov is an associate in the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Nonproliferation Program.

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  • Dmitri Trenin
    Director
    Moscow Center

    Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.

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  • Shin-pei Tsay
    Director of Cities and Transportation
    Energy and Climate Program

    Shin-pei Tsay is the director of Cities and Transportation in the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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  • Kevin Tu
    Senior Associate
    Energy and Climate Program

    Tu is a senior associate in Carnegie’s Energy and Climate Program, where he leads the organization’s work on China’s energy and climate policies.

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  • Sinan Ülgen
    Visiting Scholar
    Carnegie Europe

    Ülgen is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the implications of Turkish foreign policy for Europe and the United States, particularly with regard to Turkey’s regional stance and its role in nuclear, energy, and climate issues.

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  • Mark Van Putten
    Visiting Scholar
    Energy and Climate Program

    Van Putten is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he leads a new project evaluating public-outreach strategies for addressing climate change, global biodiversity loss, and other critical environmental issues.

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  • Wang Tao
    Resident Scholar
    Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

    Wang, an expert on climate and energy issues, runs a program at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy that examines China’s climate and energy policies, with particular attention to international climate negotiation, coal, and transportation.

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