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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...
Past Event
November 7, 2019
8:00 am - 9:15 am
Join the Center on Global Energy Policy for a breakfast and roundtable discussion with Eirik Wærness, Equinor’s Senior Vice President for Macroeconomics and Market Analysis, Chief Economist and Head of Strategy in Marketing, Midstream and Processing. During this student-only breakfast, Mr. Wærness will discuss his work at Equinor, academic and job histories, and career paths. Biography Eirik Wærness is Equinor’s Senior Vice President for Macroeconomics and Market Analysis, Chief Economist and Head of Strategy in Marketing, Midstream and Processing, and has a broad experience in government, academia and private sector companies. He currently serves as a non-executive board member of Innovation Norway and is a non-resident fellow at the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. In 2018 Eirik served as a member of IRENA’s Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation. During 2016 to 2018 he was a non-executive member of the Board of the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority. He worked with the World Economic Forum in different work groups and as an expert advisor from 2014 to 2018, and served as an executive board member at the Central Bank of Norway from 2010 to 2013. Eirik’s previous leadership roles in Equinor were in Corporate Strategy, Corporate Planning and Analysis, Economic Analysis in Upstream Norway, and Energy Market Analysis. Prior to Equinor he had various positions at the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, Total E&P Norway and Pöyry Management Consulting/Econ Centre for Economic Analysis. He has also served as member of two public commissions in Norway on tax reforms. — Registration is required. This event is open to all students. There is limited capacity for this event. We ask that you register only if you are sure you can attend this event in its entirety. Breakfast will be provided. For more information contact: [email protected].
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.”
