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Dec 11, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | David L. Goldwyn |Andrea Clabough |Robert F. Ichord
Energy security is critical to US national security, economic resilience, and competitiveness. Despite this, the United States lacks a comprehensive, long-term energy strategy that aligns energy security with broader national interests beyond the US political cycle. To address this, a “National Energy Strategy” (NES)—like the (NDS)—should be mandated through Congress, with regular reviews and bipartisan collaboration to ensure stability and adaptability to emerging challenges.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Robert F. Ichord |Robert Cekuta |William A. Tobin |Natalia Storz
Abrão Neto, the chief executive officer of AmCham Brazil (the American Chamber of Commerce in Brazil), signaled Brazil’s readiness to enhance collaboration with the United States on energy security by bringing the public and private sectors together to deliver concrete outcomes.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | William A. Tobin |David L. Goldwyn |Andrea Clabough |Robert F. Ichord
In a seismic ruling, the US Supreme Court overturned the long-standing “Chevron deference” in its decision for Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. The ruling was not specifically concerned with energy or climate policy. But its consequences for US decarbonization are profound. The ruling creates deep complications for the Joe Biden administration’s energy and climate agenda. But it also highlights their significance for the upcoming presidential election.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Robert F. Ichord |Joseph Webster |Reed Blakemore |David Yellen
Bangladesh is grappling with a severe air quality crisis. highlight pollution’s impact on the nation’s health, economy, and environment. Bangladesh urgently needs to balance growth, sustainability, and energy access to enhance the well-being of its population. But the country faces profound challenges in moving toward a safer and more equitable energy system.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
energypost.eu | Charles Hendry |Ellen R. Wald |Olga Khakova |Robert F. Ichord
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has boosted anxiety and therefore action on energy security and dependence on oil and gas. Sanctioning Russian oil and gas imports is an opportunity to replace fossil fuels with low or no carbon alternatives, an opportunity that is being taken. And renewables like wind and solar are by their nature local and therefore good for energy security (though with notable exceptions).
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Robert F. Ichord |William A. Tobin
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) analysis of commitments to reduce carbon emissions by 2030 made both before and at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) concludes that the world is on a path to achieving only one-third of the reductions in carbon emissions needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C. Achieving the needed reductions, according to the IEA, requires reducing fossil fuel emissions and tripling clean energy investments.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Julia Nesheiwat |Robert F. Ichord
Since US President Dwight Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” speech at the UN General Assembly in 1953, the nuclear energy landscape has change dramatically. Eisenhower envisaged atomic energy as a way to build bridges between nations.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Giampaolo Cantini |Mark Temnycky |Robert F. Ichord
SummaryThis Friday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel will visit Washington to meet with US President Joe Biden. Energy security and climate action have become an increasingly central part of the transatlantic relationship, as the war in Ukraine continues to disrupt global energy markets, and the resurgence of industrial policy creates a wedge between Washington and Brussels.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Robert F. Ichord
Disruptions to global energy markets from Russia’s war in Ukraine have heightened energy security concerns and stimulated large-scale European gas diversification efforts, including through US liquified natural gas (LNG) supplies. Meanwhile, global temperatures and increasingly frequent extreme heat-related events in the United States and Europe have underscored another threat to the energy system, as power grids struggle under severe weather.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Olga Khakova |Robert F. Ichord
The Three Seas Initiative (3SI) Summit in Bucharest next week takes place at a pivotal moment for Central and Eastern Europe. The nations that comprise the initiative–EU member states between the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Seas–stand at the frontlines of Russia’s energy war against Europe. The war highlights the urgency of decarbonizing and developing new 3SI energy interconnections to diversify the region away from Russian fossil fuels.
