TOPICS: ‘energy’
Energy Transition Forum Workshop: “Rethinking the Energy System”May 03, 2013 / Washington, DCOn May 3, 2013 GMF convened a group of high-level business leaders, policymakers, and other thought leaders from the United States and Europe in a full-day discussion on the global energy system.Read more...Energy in Turkey’s International Affairs and the Race for Southern CorridorApril 19, 2013 / Saban Kardas
This policy brief examines the role that energy plays in Turkey's foreign policy.Read more...
The United States is well on its way to becoming largely self-sufficient in oil and gas and could overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest supplier of hydrocarbons by 2020. Even if U.S. energy independence is still some time away, this is nonetheless a stunning turnaround from decades of U.S. dependence on imported energy sources and all the attendant geopolitical concerns. The change has been driven in part by innovative methods of exploration and extraction of fossil fuels such as shale gas from hydraulic fracturing. In a development entirely unforeseen five years ago, this has caused natural gas supplies in the United States to soar and prices to drop. Europe, in contrast, must pay four to five times more for its natural gas and has become one of the biggest importers of U.S. coal, which is experiencing a sharp decline in its share of U.S. electricity generation as power is increasingly supplied by natural gas. This increasing availability of cheap electricity is helping to bring new vigor to the U.S. economy and there are signs of new manufacturing life in old industrial regions as energy-intensive industries like petrochemicals are finding the United States a more competitive place to do business.
Read more...The East-West Black Sea/Caspian Sea Corridor in the Age of UncertaintyMarch 06, 2013 / Iulian Chifu
This policy brief advocates for the development of a trade corridor between the Caspian Sea and Europe.Read more...Four New Fellows Add Spark To Energy ProgramFebruary 21, 2013 / Iulian Chifu
GMF announces the appointment of Paul Bledsoe, Kristina Johnson, Andrew Light, and Simone Mori as non-resident fellows focusing on energy and climate issues.Read more...Energy and the Atlantic: The Shifting Energy Landscape of the Atlantic BasinNovember 29, 2012 / Paul Isbell
This policy paper argues that countries in the Southern Atlantic region are poised to become much more important players in the global energy trade.Read more...China and India: New Actors in the Southern AtlanticNovember 29, 2012 / Emiliano Alessandri, William Inboden, Dhruva Jaishankar, Joseph Quinlan, Andrew Small, Amy Studdart
This policy paper examines the role of China and India in Latin America and Africa, and the implications for the United States and Europe.Read more...Recent Gas Discoveries in the Eastern MediterraneanOctober 24, 2012 / Washington, DC
On Friday, October 12, 2012, the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and the Embassy of Cyprus hosted a private lunch discussion on the implications of the recent gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean.Read more...Ukrainian Energy Security: Between Mortgage and ProfitOctober 18, 2012 / Mykola Kapitonenko
This policy brief examines Ukraine's major energy challenges and how they relate to the country's foreign policy.Read more...
August 20, 2012 / Geoffrey KempTransatlantic Academy Senior Fellow Geoffrey Kemp analyzes prospects for violent interstate disputes over natural resources. He discusses the role new rising geopolitical powers, a growing global middle class, and climate change will play in raising the risk of conflicts over resources, specifically minerals, fish, oils, gas, and fresh water.
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