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Energy & Environment
The Energy and Environment program explores the economic and political aspects of energy security and supply, as well as international environmental issues. It promotes open access and clean air and offers policy recommendations to meet developing countries’ needs through the increased flow of capital, technology and know-how in the energy and water supply sectors.Climate Change Will Be More Severe in 2025
Erica McCarthy | November 25, 2008The National Intelligence Council’s “Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World” report considers likely scenarios for nearly all strategic global issues, including nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and climate change. Climate change in particular is an issue that we will be faced with on a daily basis two decades from now.
Russia and $50 Oil
James Joyner | November 12, 2008Oil prices have plummeted in recent weeks, hitting a 20-month low of $59 per barrel, a 60 percent drop-off from its summer high of $147. One might reasonably think that this would be crippling to a country like Russia, which relies so heavily on energy exports to stake its claim to major power status. The Troika Dialog team, though, argues that it's much more complicated than that.
Russia May Leave Europe Out in the Cold
Christopher Harness | October 31, 2008The landmark pipeline deal recently signed between Russia and China connecting the Siberian oil fields with Daqing should send cold chills up Europeans’ spines. It may very well mean they will be literally cold in the foreseeable future.
Not Quite So Green: Don’t Hold Your Breath Waiting for Copenhagen
Robert Manning | October 21, 2008As the world gears up for the UN Climate Change extravaganza (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCC) in Copenhagen in December 2009, achieving a serious accord to establish post-2012 commitments that could slow or halt global warming increasingly appears a mirage.
Untying NATO's Hands: Why the Alliance Needs an Energy Policy
James Easaw | September 26, 2008Since Russia’s August invasion and occupation of Georgia, the short and long term implications have been much debated. Is Russia reasserting itself in an attempt to become the global power that its predecessor the USSR
A 21st Century Marshall Plan for Energy, Water and Agriculture in Developing Countries
September 20, 2008The persistence of poverty and extreme deprivation in developing countries prevents the spread of freedom and democracy as certainly as any other factor. Starting points to alleviate that poverty are developing countries’ ability to obtain the clean energy and water supplies that are necessary to promote economic growth and public health. This paper attempts to create a new paradigm for U.S. foreign policy, taking advantage of the vast (as yet untapped) resources of the U.S. technical capabilities in our research institutions to better understand the cause and effect of energy-water-agriculture interdependencies on national and regional instabilities, as well as the potential for transformational technological impacts on future development and stability.
Saudis Better Prepared for Post-Oil World?
Robert Manning | September 12, 2008It may be the ultimate irony of our horrendous energy predicament. Amid all the talk and admonitions about “foreign oil” and alternative energy, it appears the Saudis and the other Persian Gulf oil and gas exporters are further along in preparing to diversify their economies for a post-petroleum world than the United States.
General Jones on Energy Insecurity
August 24, 2008General James L. Jones, chairman of the Atlantic Council, was interviewed by Parade magazine on energy policy. The following appeared in the August 24 issue.
U.S.-EU-China Cooperation on Climate Change
May 13, 2008On May 13, 2008, the Atlantic Council of the U.S. and Asia Society Washington hosted a seminar on EU-U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change.
U.S.-China Cooperation on Clean and Efficient Transportation
May 07, 2008Because of their significant contribution to global demand for improved living standards, meaningful actions by the United States and China on transportation and energy will be important in any effort to reduce global consumption of traditional energy sources.
Program Leadership
FEATURED EVENT
Atlantic Council Chairman Named National Security Advisor
Atlantic Council Chairman General James L. Jones has accepted President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to serve as his National Security Advisor. Jones, respected on both sides of the aisle, brings more than forty years of military and diplomatic experience to the post.
FEATURED ISSUE
The Challenge of Somali Piracy
In a metaphor that the traditionally nomadic Somalis would undoubtedly appreciate, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Last Thursday, Somali pirates seized the Ukrainian-owned, Belizean-registered freighter Faina as it neared the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
Council Highlight
Atlantic Council Board Member Named UN Ambassador
Susan E. Rice, a member of the Atlantic Council Board of Directors, was appointed President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations on December 1.
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