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The Bali Road Map - Building a Global Climate Policy
How should the international community manage the risks of global climate change? Diplomats from 187 nations faced this question in December at the United Nations' climate conference in Bali, Indonesia. Their answer was a two-year plan for negotiating a new global climate policy that would start in 2013 - the year the Kyoto Protocol ends.
Will Clean Energy "Cross the Divide?"
Fossil fuels provide most of the world's energy and are the foundation of the past two centuries of economic growth. The issue of climate change poses the first serious challenge to fossil fuels' primacy.
$100 Oil: Moving Deeper Into Uncharted Territory
The world is experience its first ever triple digit oil price. This highlights in dramatic fashion how different the oil market environment, and the world economy, is today compared to that of a few decades ago.
On The Road To $100 Oil: The Historical High Is Actually $99.04 Per Barrel
With eyes focused on whether and when oil breaks through the $100 barrier, it turns out that $100 a barrel is really $99.04, at least in terms of the all-time record.
Green: The Color Of Money -- Energy Industry Seeing 'Bubbling Of Innovation'
The traditional energy business is booming, at the same time supply-and-demand are being taxed like never before and there's growing concern about finding new reserves.
Russia Attracting More Western Companies
Where's Russia headed? One good place to get an answer was the just-concluded St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which followed the strained G-8 meeting in Germany.
What Does 'Energy Security' Really Mean?
the conclusion of last year's G8 summit in Scotland, Russian President Vladimir Putin said to the other leaders of the G8 industrial nations, "We cannot ignore the question of overcoming poverty - and the fight against terrorism." But "the key issue for the next summit" would be energy security.
What Can Brazil Teach The U.S. About Ethanol?
Over 1200 people turned up on June 5th in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the "Ethanol Summit" -billed as the world's first ethanol "congress."
China and America Need Not Be Energy Rivals
Energy is markedly different from the other controversial matters that will be at the top of the US-Chinese Strategic Economic Dialogue, edition two, meeting this week in Washington.
How Much Oil Is Really Down There? Oil And Gas Reserves Accounting Needs Updating
The disclosure of "proved reserves" has been one of the great rituals of the reporting season for oil and gas companies, and one carefully monitored by investors. It's recently taken on even more significance with high and jittery prices, concerns about energy security, and plain fear of running out.
Renewable Electric Power Takes Off
Renewable electric power is beginning to soar. The current surge of activity, which has been accelerating over the last few years, is driven by several factors including environmental and sociopolitical considerations.
Will Innovation Transform Energy?
There has never before been so wide-ranging a drive for technological advance and breakthroughs. It affects every part of the energy industry, whether
one is talking about oil and natural gas, renewables and alternatives or efficiency and demand management.
The impact is evident in the oil and gas industry.
Ethanol And Brazil: The New Global Energy Brand?
When it comes to energy, Brazil is on its way to becoming a "global brand." Although the United States recently outpaced Brazil in ethanol production, Brazil is by far the leader in sugar-based ethanol.
A Double Bubble Drives Rising Oil Production Costs
The dramatic run-up in oil prices in recent years has been the subject of much attention and many headlines. What has received far less attention is another increase: the parallel rise in the costs of drilling for oil and building the infrastructure necessary to pump it out of the ground.
How Different Will Tomorrow Be? Thinking About The Energy Future
The energy business has one of the longest timelines of any industry. Decisions are being made today for oil or natural gas fields that will only begin to flow fifteen years from now. Investors, in the meantime, have to decide where to put their bets on technologies that will take years to come to fruition.
A Changing Policy Climate
What a difference a year can make. In twelve months the center of gravity has strikingly shifted in the debate over U.S. climate change policy.
A Great Bubbling: Economics Of Oil Prices
"High oil prices are transforming the world's political landscape and launching an era of high-tech innovation that could rival the Internet boom," writes CERA Chairman Daniel Yergin in Newsweek magazine.
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