Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
California’s Monterey shale is found in drought-prone agricultural and urban locations with limited water resources, necessitating careful water management and protective measures.
The EU must be prudent when dealing with the diverse array of global oils and petroleum products that will soon come knocking. Any attempt to regulate should be scientifically rigorous, non-discriminatory, and avoid unnecessary barriers to trade.
While the energy boom in the United States is increasing domestic access to oil and gas and growing exports of petroleum products, it is unlikely that this will translate into U.S. energy independence.
A new energy transition faces the United States as it shifts from oil scarcity to potential abundance.
Unless Washington enacts a plan to simultaneously advance its competing energy and climate security objectives, it risks squandering the benefits of its new resources and suffering the disastrous effects of climate change.
Redesigning Beijing’s transportation system could allow its inhabitants reduce car traffic and improve their own quality of life.
As urban populations surge worldwide, cities must work together with national governments to create environmentally and financially sustainable urban transport systems.
Washington and Beijing should take their bilateral cooperation on climate change to the next level by implementing projects to help cities reduce their carbon emissions.
Filling information gaps, developing robust energy policies, and ultimately pricing carbon will be critical to managing the unconventional oil and gas boom.
With the U.N. forecasting that 70 percent of the world's population will reside in urban areas by 2050, smart cities and strategic oil decisions are critical to ensuring a path to a politically stable and secure energy and climate future.