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U.S. State Actions to Help Fossil Fuel Communities Navigate the Energy Transition
The world has committed to transitioning away from fossil fuels to avoid the most severe threats of climate change.[1] Communities across the United States rely on fossil fuel...
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Inside the 2024 World Energy Outlook
Rising electricity demand. Heightened geopolitical tension. Fragility in energy markets. These are some of the big stories shaping the energy transition outlined in the International Energy Agency’s newest...
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How Finance Ministries in Latin America and the Caribbean Can Enhance Climate Action
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) face significant vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. Several factors drive this vulnerability, including their geographic location; limited capacity to adapt...
EU and LAC Climate Collaboration: Renewable Energy
While Europe has long promoted both energy efficiency and renewable energy, recent European Union (EU) policies reflect an increased ambition regarding its energy transition. Key instruments include the...
EU and LAC Climate Collaboration: Adapting to CBAM
The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), created in 2005, is a key tool to orient investments toward technologies with lower carbon intensity. Like other carbon pricing mechanisms,...
EU and LAC Climate Collaboration: Transport and Mineral Supply
In the introductory article of this series, the authors discussed the transformational nature of the European Climate Law and its related policy instruments, and their potential to drive...
EU and LAC Climate Collaboration: Introduction
With the European Climate Law, the European Union (EU) has adopted binding legislation requiring it to achieve a 55 percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030...
Latin America’s Enduring New Oil Landscape
Latin America’s oil sector has experienced tectonic—and likely irreversible—changes during the past decade. Production fell to 7.8 million barrels of oil per day (mb/d) in 2022 from 10.4...
Climate Mitigation in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Primer on Transition Costs, Risks, and Financing
Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries are among the most vulnerable in the world to climate change, experiencing at least one extreme weather-related event per country, on average, every three years over the past two decades.
