Energy 360°

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Energy 360 examines the energy landscape from the intersection of policy, markets, technologies, and geopolitics. With commentary from leading energy and CSIS experts, we provide context and perspective on the most critical issues shaping energy today. Hosted by the CSIS Energy and National Security Program.

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Planning the Future Climate

05.16.2022

This week on Energy 360, Peter Irvine (University College London) and Jesse Reynolds (Paris Peace Forum) talk with Joseph Makjut (CSIS) about the future of combatting climate change and how human interventions, including the potential of technologies like solar geoengineering, ...

Energy 360° episodes:

05.16.2022 Planning the Future Climate This week on Energy 360, Peter Irvine (University College London) and Jesse Reynolds (Paris Peace Forum) talk with Joseph Makjut (CSIS) about the future of combatting climate change and how human interventions, including the potential of technologies like solar geoengineering, ...
05.09.2022 New Horizons in U.S. Offshore Wind On May 11th, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold its first offshore wind energy lease sale of the Carolinas. Ahead of this sale, Morgan Higman (CSIS) talks with officials from North Carolina, Massachusetts, ...
05.02.2022 Offshore Wind: Perspective from Germany This week Dr. Martin Skiba, chairman of the World Forum Offshore Wind and a board member of the Offshore Wind Power Foundation, spoke with Joseph Majkut, director of the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program about offshore wind developments. ...
04.18.2022 Rethinking Energy Security This week Ed Crooks (WoodMac) joins Joseph Majkut (CSIS) to focus on energy security in light of the ongoing Russian invasion in Ukraine. Ed and Joseph discuss the sanctions on Russia, how the U.S. and Europe are rethinking energy security, ...
04.04.2022 Just Transitions: Environmental remediation This week, Mzila Mthenjane with Exxaro Resources in South Africa and Dr. Raju Evr with the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, join Sandeep Pai of the Just Transition Initiative to look at the role of environmental remediation ...
03.21.2022 Making Sense of the IPCC Report, Climate Change 2022 This week, climate risk expert Maarten van Aalst talks with Joseph Majkut, CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program Director, about key findings from the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - Climate Change 2022: Impacts, ...
03.07.2022 Reducing Methane Emissions: Why, How, and How Fast? Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and reducing methane emissions across the oil and natural gas supply chain is an important part of meeting global climate goals. This week, Fiji George and Arvind Ravikumar joined my colleague Ben Cahill to ...
02.22.2022 States of Clean Energy: A conversation with Utility Regulators In the United States, states are often leaders in advancing climate and energy objectives. The state regulatory utility commissioners who oversee electricity and gas services can be especially influential in guiding the development of new, clean energy infrastructure. This week ...
02.07.2022 Energy Security Stakes and Russia – Ukraine Tensions This week, the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program looks at some of the energy implications from growing tensions between Ukraine and Russia. Joseph Majkut, Nikos Tsafos, and Ben Cahill look at recent developments to understand what a possible ...
01.24.2022 The Texas 2021 Power Crisis This week on Energy 360, Dr. Joshua Rhodes, an energy expert at the University of Texas at Austin, joins Morgan Higman (CSIS Energy) to look back at the February 2021 electric power crisis in Texas. Last year, a major winter ...
01.10.2022 Evaluating U.S. Emissions Targets This week, John Larsen (Rhodium Group) joins Joseph Majkut (CSIS) to look at how the United States could create a policy action plan to meet the Biden administration’s target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52 percent by 2030. John ...
12.20.2021 Looking Back at 2021 This week, Sarah Ladislaw (RMI) and Liam Denning (Bloomberg) join Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) to look back at what happened in energy and climate over the last year. 2021 saw the world’s climate leaders focused on the November U.N. Climate meetings ...
12.13.2021 Outlook for U.S. Shale This week, Artem Abramov (Rystad Energy) and Casey Merriman (Energy Intelligence) join Ben Cahill (CSIS) for a discussion about what’s next for U.S. shale production. They look at recent production trends and investor pressure in U.S. oil and gas sector ...
11.29.2021 Energy Agenda for U.S. States This week, David Terry, Executive Director of the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) joins Morgan Higman (Clean Resilient States Project, CSIS) to look at how states are working together and with the federal government to craft workable and ...
11.15.2021 Just Transitions: Economic Diversification for Coal Dependent regions This week, Gaylor Montmasson-Clair with Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) and Srestha Banerjee with iForest join Sandeep Pai (CSIS) to explore the opportunities and challenges for coal dependent regions in India and South Africa to create just and sustainable ...
11.01.2021 Just Transitions: Focusing on South Africa and India This week, Chandra Bhushan with iFOREST and Jesse Burton with the University of Cape Town join Sandeep Pai (CSIS) to look at how key themes of just transitions are important in the context of CoP26 meetings. They then discuss the ...
10.25.2021 Moving global ambition into COP26 with Jonathan Pershing This week, Jonathan Pershing, Deputy Special Envoy for Climate at the U.S. Department of State, joins Joseph Majkut (CSIS) to look at what to expect from the upcoming COP26 meetings in Glasgow. Dr. Pershing discusses what is at stake for ...
10.18.2021 Assessing Climate Change Risks after Covid-19 This week, Alice Hill, climate risk and resilient expert with the Council on Foreign Relations, joins CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program Director Joseph Majkut and discusses her recent book, The Fight for Climate After COVID-19. The two explore ...
10.11.2021 Making Sense of the IPCC Report This week, CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program Director Joseph Majkut talks with Dr. Robert Kopp, a climate scientist, and professor at Rutgers University, about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report. The contribution of Working Group ...
09.27.2021 Making Sense of China's "No New Coal" Announcement This week, Dr. Cecilia Han Springer with the Global China Initiative at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center joins Nikos Tsafos and Jane Nakano (CSIS Energy) to talk about announcements from China at last week’s U.S. General Assembly meetings. Chinese ...
09.17.2021 Deciphering the Clean Electricity Performance Program In today’s special release, Joseph Majkut and Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) talk with Jesse Jenkins (Princeton University) about the new draft legislation in the Congress designed to lower U.S carbon emissions from the electric power sector over the next ten years.
09.13.2021 Update on Natural Gas This week, Ira Joseph (S&P Global Platts) joins Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) to discuss natural gas markets. They dive into what’s behind recent gas price upheavals, then turn to European supply concerns, LNG exports, and U.S. production levels. They also look ...
08.02.2021 6 Months In: Climate Policy in the Biden Administration This week, Kevin Book (Clear View Energy Partners) and Sarah Ladislaw (RMI) join Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) for a look at climate and energy policies under the new Biden administration. The Administration came in with some ambitious climate and energy policies. ...
07.19.2021 Future for India’s Coal Sector with Partha Bhattacharyya This week, Partha Bhattacharyya (former chairman, Coal India Limited) joins Sandeep Pai (CSIS/JTI) to discuss how Coal India Limited is preparing for a clean energy future. Mr. Bhattacharyya was chairman of Coal India from 2006-2011. Coal India Limited (CIL) is ...
07.06.2021 The Future of U.S. Pipelines This week Christi Tezak (Clear View Energy Partners) joins Ben Cahill (CSIS) to discuss oil pipelines in the United States. Christi and Ben look at how the Biden Administration is approaching pipeline issues, new actions from state-level governments, recent court ...
06.21.2021 Just Transitions: A Just Green Recovery from Covid-19 This week, Ben Cahill (CSIS) is joined by Brian O’Callaghan and Jesse Burton to discuss how Covid-19 recovery can be more just, equitable and green. Brian is Lead Researcher and Project Manager of the Oxford University Economic Recovery Project, and ...
06.07.2021 Crafting Practical Energy and Climate Policies This week, Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago) joins Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) to discuss the recently published roadmap for energy and climate policy published by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). This roadmap brings to the U.S. ...
05.24.2021 India’s Progress on Energy Storage This week, Neelima Jain (CSIS Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies) is joined by Saurabh Kumar (Energy Efficiency Services Limited or EESL) and Rahul Walawalkar (India Energy Storage Alliance) to discuss the role that energy storage can play in helping ...
05.10.2021 U.S. Energy Workers in Transition This week, Ben Cahill (CSIS) is joined by Daniel Raimi and Wes Look (Resources for the Future) to discuss the latest report in their series focused on ensuring fairness for workers and communities in transition. They talk about the opportunities ...
04.26.2021 Department of Energy: Ready for New Priorities? This week we look at whether the Department of Energy is set up to meet the new climate and energy goals set out by the Biden Administration. Our guests, Tim Lieuwen (Georgia Tech), Adam Cohen (AUI and CSIS), and Leland ...
04.12.2021 Conversation with Representative Elaine Luria This week, Jane Nakano (CSIS) talks with Representative Elaine Luria about energy and climate priorities for Representative Luria’s district. Representative Luria was first elected to represent Virginia’s Second Congressional District in 2018. Her district includes many coastal communities as well ...
03.29.2021 Commodity Traders in the Global Economy This week, Bloomberg energy and commodity reporters Javier Blas and Jack Farchy join Ben Cahill (CSIS) for a discussion of their new book, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources. Their discussion focuses ...
03.15.2021 Just Transitions: India’s Path Forward As the energy transition in India accelerates, how do decisionmakers ensure that the transition is a just and equitable transition? Neha Sharma (CIF and JTI), Ajay Mathur (International Solar Alliance), Srestha Banerjee (iForest), and Mike Ward (CIF) look at the ...
03.01.2021 Grid Crisis in Texas This week, Dr. Emily Grubert, a professor at Georgia Tech, joins Stephen Naimoli (CSIS) to look at the recent winter storm in Texas that caused massive grid failures. Emily and Stephen consider what happened in Texas and why the grid ...
02.15.2021 2021 Climate and Energy Trends in Asia This week, Justin Wu (BloombergNEF) and Lachlan Carey (CSIS) take a tour of all things climate and energy related across Asia. They start with the outlook for U.S.-China relations on climate under the Biden Administration, consider the recent carbon neutral ...
02.01.2021 Japan’s New Energy & Climate Plans Ken Koyama (IEEJ) and Jane Nakano (CSIS Energy) look at recent energy and climate announcements from Japan. In October, Japan announced a plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. The climate pledge was followed by the launch of the Green ...
01.18.2021 The Outlook for U.S. Energy and Climate Revisited Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) and Kevin Book (ClearView Energy Partners) look at the U.S. climate and energy agenda. Kevin and Sarah reflect on the outcome of the U.S. elections and the recent Senate race in Georgia, the divided nature of U.S. ...
01.11.2021 Reforming U.S. Shale Companies This week our guest is Mark Viviano, a Managing Partner & Portfolio Manager with Kimmeridge. Kimmeridge is a private equity firm investing in low-cost unconventional oil and gas assets in the U.S., and is also an activist investor pushing for ...
12.21.2020 Covid-19: Impacts Across the Energy Sector This week’s Energy 360 is part of our Energy Futures Forum. This annual project looks at trends and their impacts on the energy sector over the next ten years. This year’s overarching theme was Covid-19 and how it has had ...
12.11.2020 Ethiopia’s Energy Transition Pathway This week Energy 360 highlights our project on Energy Transition Strategies, which examines how emerging economies are balancing economic growth while reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. We looked at three different places: Vietnam, Ethiopia, and the Indian state of Gujarat. ...
12.09.2020 Gujarat’s Energy Transition Pathway This week Energy 360 highlights our project on Energy Transition Strategies, which examines how emerging economies are balancing economic growth while reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. We looked at three different places: Vietnam, Ethiopia, and the Indian state of Gujarat. ...
12.07.2020 Vietnam’s Energy Transition Pathway This week Energy 360 highlights our project on Energy Transition Strategies, which examines how emerging economies are balancing economic growth while reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. We looked at 3 different places: Vietnam, Ethiopia, and the Indian state of Gujarat. ...
11.30.2020 From Taxes to Technology: Australia’s new approach to climate policy This week our guest is Angus Taylor, the Australian Minister for Energy and Emissions. Joined by CSIS colleagues Sarah Ladislaw and Lachlan Carey, Minister Angus discusses the new technology-led climate approach that Australia is embarking on. They look at the ...
11.16.2020 A Post-Election Energy Take: Part 2 This week, we bring you a special two-part episode on the impacts of the U.S. elections on energy and climate policy. Our guests, Kevin Book with ClearView Energy Partners, Kyle Danish with Van Ness Feldman, and John Larsen with the ...
11.16.2020 A Post-Election Energy Take: Part 1 This week, we bring you a special two-part episode on the impacts of the U.S. elections on energy and climate policy. Our guests, Kevin Book with ClearView Energy Partners, Kyle Danish with Van Ness Feldman, and John Larsen with the ...
11.09.2020 Climate Change: A View from the Bank of Greece This week, our guest is Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece. Governor Stournaras joins my colleague Nikos Tsafos (CSIS Energy Program) and Stephanie Segal (CSIS Economics Program) to talk about the economic impacts of climate change, what the ...
10.26.2020 Examining Germany’s Clean Energy Transition This week, Sven Egenter, founder of the Clean Energy Wire, joins Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) to talk about Germany’s energy transition - Energiewende, the ambitious plan to make Germany climate-neutral by 2050. They look at different perceptions of the plan in ...
10.05.2020 Election Year 2020: Energy and Climate Special Edition This week Kevin Book (ClearView Energy Partners) and Paul Bodnar (Rocky Mountain Institute) join Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) on Energy 360 to make sense of the energy and climate issues playing out in upcoming U.S. elections and understand what’s at stake ...
09.28.2020 Just Transitions: Local Lessons and Global Insights from South Africa Just transitions have featured regularly in national-level conversations in South Africa around its energy transition plans and climate change policies and commitments. In this episode, hosted by Neha Sharma of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), we explore the opportunities and ...
09.14.2020 Just Transitions: Assessing Gender Dimensions This week, guests Adrienne Cruz with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and May Thazin Aung with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) join Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) to discuss the gender dimensions of just transitions and offer recommendations for understanding and incorporating ...

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What's Energy 360° about?

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Energy 360° episodes:

Planning the Future Climate

New Horizons in U.S. Offshore Wind

Offshore Wind: Perspective from Germany

Rethinking Energy Security

Just Transitions: Environmental remediation

Making Sense of the IPCC Report, Climate Change 2022

Reducing Methane Emissions: Why, How, and How Fast?

States of Clean Energy: A conversation with Utility Regulators

Energy Security Stakes and Russia – Ukraine Tensions

The Texas 2021 Power Crisis

Evaluating U.S. Emissions Targets

Looking Back at 2021

Outlook for U.S. Shale

Energy Agenda for U.S. States

Just Transitions: Economic Diversification for Coal Dependent regions

Just Transitions: Focusing on South Africa and India

Moving global ambition into COP26 with Jonathan Pershing

Assessing Climate Change Risks after Covid-19

Making Sense of the IPCC Report

Making Sense of China's "No New Coal" Announcement

Deciphering the Clean Electricity Performance Program

Update on Natural Gas

6 Months In: Climate Policy in the Biden Administration

Future for India’s Coal Sector with Partha Bhattacharyya

The Future of U.S. Pipelines

Just Transitions: A Just Green Recovery from Covid-19

Crafting Practical Energy and Climate Policies

India’s Progress on Energy Storage

U.S. Energy Workers in Transition

Department of Energy: Ready for New Priorities?

Conversation with Representative Elaine Luria

Commodity Traders in the Global Economy

Just Transitions: India’s Path Forward

Grid Crisis in Texas

2021 Climate and Energy Trends in Asia

Japan’s New Energy & Climate Plans

The Outlook for U.S. Energy and Climate Revisited

Reforming U.S. Shale Companies

Covid-19: Impacts Across the Energy Sector

Ethiopia’s Energy Transition Pathway

Gujarat’s Energy Transition Pathway

Vietnam’s Energy Transition Pathway

From Taxes to Technology: Australia’s new approach to climate policy

A Post-Election Energy Take: Part 2

A Post-Election Energy Take: Part 1

Climate Change: A View from the Bank of Greece

Examining Germany’s Clean Energy Transition

Election Year 2020: Energy and Climate Special Edition

Just Transitions: Local Lessons and Global Insights from South Africa

Just Transitions: Assessing Gender Dimensions