Summary Green energy promises an alluring future—more jobs in a cleaner environment. We will enjoy a new economy driven by clean electricity, less pollution, and,…
Topic: Energy Security
Summary Oil is the most vital resource of our time. Because it is so important, misperceptions about the black gold abound. Leonardo Maugeri clears the…
Abstract In this article published in Foreign Affairs, Amory Lovins describes a U.S. transition from fossil fuels–a blueprint detailed in Reinventing Fire— that requires pursuing…
Summary From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world’s diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance…
Summary From the oilfields of Saudi Arabia to the Nile delta, from the shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the pipelines of Central…
Summary Coal mining is one of China’s largest industries, and provides an excellent case study through which to consider the broader issues of China’s transition…
Summary Africa has long attracted China. We can date their first certain involvement from the fourteenth century, but East African city-states may have been trading…
Abstract Climate change is an epic threat. Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in human history and rising…
Summary China’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and policies are frequently invoked in Congressional debates over appropriate climate change policy. This background report describes Chinese GHG…
Summary China’s spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country’s natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation…
Abstract China’s blistering economic growth has made access to adequate energy supplies an increasingly important priority. It is the world’s second largest consumer and third…
Abstract The rise of China has thrown open many important and interesting questions: Will a strong China behave responsibly in world affairs, complying with the…
Abstract Over the past decade, the Chinese government has developed several plans regulations and policy measures related to the development of renewable energy technologies and…
Abstract This article analyzes China’s current electricity sector reforms, arguing that they can be understood as a creative response of the party-state to a set…
Abstract China is a particularly important place in which to examine the opportunities for renewable energy development due to the size of its current energy…
