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There are some technologies that can actually capture emissions of, for example, CO2, and those technologies right now are relatively expensive per ton of CO2 that you can actually eliminate from being omitted. But, there are also, of course, other options, there’s energy efficiency, there are alternative sources of supply, such as solar and wind, and there are even switches to other sources of fuel, such as natural gas.

October 3, 2013, Nathan Hultman, BBC

Taiwan’s Severe Energy Security Challenges

September 2013, Huei-Chu Liao and Sih Ting Jhou

Why Is the Price of Oil So Hard to Predict?

August 14, 2013, George L. Perry

Finland Trip Report: Harnessing Offshore Opportunities in the Arctic

July 26, 2013, Charles K. Ebinger

President Obama’s Plan to Cut Carbon Pollution

June 25, 2013, Charles K. Ebinger

International Actions to Support Green Growth Innovation Goals

June 2013, Nathan Hultman, Jason Eis and Katherine Sierra

In the past few years, there has been this sense that there was too much emphasis on large powers like the U.S. China sees this whole thing as a chess board. If they could consolidate relationships in Africa, Latin America and Central America, it will boost their standing in the world and give them more bargaining power.

June 1, 2013, Yun Sun, Wall Street Journal

The Clean Energy Ministerial in Delhi: An International Forum to Address National Energy Policy Goals

April 16, 2013, Nathan Hultman

Black Carbon and Kerosene Lighting: An Opportunity for Rapid Action on Climate Change and Clean Energy for Development

April 2013, Arne Jacobson, Nicholas L. Lam, Tami C. Bond and Nathan Hultman

Beyond the Climate Impasse: How the Major Economies Forum Can Lead the Way

April 8, 2013, Timmons Roberts

Key Sub-Saharan Energy Trends and their Importance for the U.S.

April 2013, John P. Banks

Natural Gas Liquids: The “Other” Driver of the U.S. Oil and Gas Supply Resurgence

March 2013, Charles K. Ebinger and Govinda Avasarala

The Department of Energy’s Strategy for Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas

March 19, 2013, Charles K. Ebinger

China’s Carbon Tax Proposal Highlights the Need for a New Track of Climate Talks

March 15, 2013, Adele Morris, Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen

Say Yes to the Pipeline—and New Green Regulations: Why Triangulation is the Answer on Keystone

March 15, 2013, William A. Galston

The State Department report will make it much harder for Obama to justify rejecting the Keystone project. Still, it has become a highly visible and emotionally charged symbol of an often diffuse issue, and it is where many leading environmental organizations have chosen to draw the line.

March 14, 2013, William A. Galston, The New Republic

Carbon Taxes as Part of the Fiscal Solution

March 12, 2013, William G. Gale, Samuel Brown and Fernando Saltiel

The Tax Favored By Most Economists

March 12, 2013, William G. Gale

Energy Security in Northeast Asia: A Pivotal Moment for the U.S.-Japan Alliance

March 2013, Shoichi Itoh

Why Jordan Is Building Two New Nuclear Power Plants

March 8, 2013, John P. Banks

Environmental Outlook: Air Pollution In China

March 5, 2013, Kenneth G. Lieberthal

Fluid and Gases: How Obama Can Balance Energy and Environmental Priorities

February 28, 2013, Kevin Massy

The Case for U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas Exports

February 2013, Charles K. Ebinger and Govinda Avasarala

American Energy Security and Innovation

February 26, 2013, Ted Gayer

On the environmental objective, certainly we are concerned about greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. But we argue that the best way to address that would be to put a price on carbon, for example through a carbon tax, rather than try to subsidize alternatives. [That]'s much less efficient. The way the [current] rules work, electric vehicle manufacturers can sell credits to other automakers toward their fuel economy standards, so that means that other automakers can sell more polluting cars for every electric car that's sold.

February 23, 2013, Adele Morris, National Public Radio