David G. Victor

[On President Trump's remarks at the U.N. General Assembly]  I can see some case for concern about excess dependence on Russian gas within the gas market....what matters is diversity and flexibility of supply.

[On the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco] There's a conspicuous effort to do the opposite of what the Trump administration is doing. That's going to be highly visible because of the politics inside the country.

[On Russia, Ukraine, and energy issues] A 'somewhat bigger issue' than Nord Stream 2 is that the extra revenues [are] flowing back to Russia while the Russian state engages in mischief.

[On climate finance institutions] Most of these institutions were either created by the United States, or the U.S. had a big role in shaping them. When the American domestic politics turned south on multilateralism, there is this larger kind of stasis-inducing effect on the rest of the international system.

When the politics of serious energy policy become impossible to manage . . . a torrent of symbolic actions fills the space.