Trump team pushes for ouster of top IEA official
The administration and its Republican allies in Congress say the International Energy Agency discourages fossil fuel investments around the world.
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Governments around the world are consumed now with the challenge of responding effectively to the coronavirus pandemic, including providing adequate healthcare and alleviating the economic impact of the crisis. But policymakers in Washington and other capitals will eventually need to find ways to stimulate a recovery of their economies to put back to work the legions of people who are now unemployed.
In this edition of Columbia Energy Exchange, host Bill Loveless talks to Ernest Moniz about the role that energy sectors can play in reinvigorating the U.S. economy, especially those sectors responsible for the early stages of a low-carbon transition that’s taken place over the last decade, and the importance of building coalitions to support such options.
Moniz is well known to listeners as a former U.S. secretary of energy during the Obama administration and a key architect of the Paris Agreement on climate change. He also negotiated the Iran nuclear agreement alongside then Secretary of State John Kerry. Now, he is the founder and CEO of the Energy Futures Initiative, a Washington-based clean-energy nonprofit, and co-chair and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit that works to prevent catastrophic attacks and accidents with weapons of mass destruction.
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Countries around the world, including the US, are rushing to secure critical mineral supply chains. As these essential resources, which are key to building clean energy infrastructure, become...
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It remains unclear whether Iran retains the ability to develop nuclear weapons quickly.
H2 projects will have to compete for a shrinking pipeline of zero-carbon electricity with energy-intensive data centres.
Each country in the alliance offers distinct strengths.
President Trump has ended the federal government’s use of the "social cost of carbon" (SCC), an official estimate of the harms caused by carbon dioxide emissions.