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The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), in partnership with Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP), today announced the launch of a new Trade and Clean Energy Transition Program.
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The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), especially Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and Gemini on which the now well-known ChatGPT AI and Gemina assistant systems...
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Russia’s energy exports, including its significant natural gas capacity, are geopolitical currency for the country. Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia was Europe’s single largest supplier of imported...
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December 16, 2021
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Historically, Africa’s and Latin America’s economic role in the international system has been that of exporters of commodities to markets in Europe and North America–in the process providing vital resources to sustain the global carbon economy and carbon-intensive modes of production and consumption. In the last two decades, the growth in China’s global economic and environmental footprint has, in many ways, consolidated these patterns but has also coincided with soaring debt to GDP ratios in African and Latin American states. This trend towards increased indebtedness preceded the Covid-19 pandemic and has been deepened by it as sovereigns have scrambled to increase public spending. Rising external commitments are not only reminiscent of previous episodes of financial instability leading to political turmoil and “lost decades” for tens of millions of impoverished citizens. They also threaten to undercut today’s efforts in Africa and Latin America to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and prepare for energy transitions at home as well as in Europe, North America and Asia.
The Center on Global Energy Policy hosted a panel to investigate the challenge of financing decarbonization and the SDGs more broadly in the shadow of the pandemic and growing fiscal constraints, with special attention to Beijing’s role as a creditor and development partner for low-income and middle-income countries.
This event was the first in a series of dialogues, convened by the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia-SIPA and the Oxford University China-Africa Network (OUCAN), that focuses on China’s role in the political economies of African and Latin American states. The dialogues bring together scholars, policymakers and civil society voices from across the world to reflect on how growing indebtedness, (potential) energy transitions and industrial policy are linked and what role China plays in impacting these connections.
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https://www.youtube.com/live/uKG-yDvxzRo?si=oze-u-1IhRQNCINJ Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, the global gas market has witnessed considerable changes. This is particularly the case for the global...
https://youtu.be/BperazUqXx4?si=1AwY7TLj5-nYtEbq Electricity open access - which allows customers to procure electricity from different generators on the electricity grid - has been widely recognized as an important tool to...
https://www.youtube.com/live/beIgbyUg71I?si=2UkBasWH3HYumJ3O Rising electricity tariffs are a concern for consumers everywhere, affecting everything from household budgets to agricultural and industrial viability. Over a third of the households in the...
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While the United States (US) has facilities that can and do dispose of most low-level nuclear waste (LLW), it does not yet have a viable disposal pathway for two categories of waste: so-called greater-than-class-c (GTCC) nuclear waste, and nuclear waste with characteristics similar to it, or “GTCC-like.”
