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This week, Jonathan Pershing, Deputy Special Envoy for Climate at the U.S. Department of State, joins Joseph Majkut (CSIS) to look at what to expect from the upcoming COP26 meetings in Glasgow. Dr. Pershing discusses what is at stake for these international negotiations, which countries are stepping up their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and which are lagging on their national commitments. They also discuss what the Biden Administration brings to this year’s meetings, whether Congress will have climate legislation in place before the meetings begin, and how the U.S. has been coordinating with other countries to raise ambitions, and hopefully ensure a successful agreement coming out of COP26.

This week, Alice Hill, climate risk and resilient expert with the Council on Foreign Relations, joins CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program Director Joseph Majkut and discusses her recent book, The Fight for Climate After COVID-19. The two explore lessons from the response to covid-19 to inform building resilience in the face of climate risks, how states can better prepare for climate impacts, and if adaptation might have a role at COP26.

This week, CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program Director Joseph Majkut talks with Dr. Robert Kopp, a climate scientist, and professor at Rutgers University, about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report. The contribution of Working Group 1, which reports the physical science of climate change, was released this past August. Dr. Kopp was the lead author of that report's chapter on sea-level rise. They dive into some of the climate science and modeling that supports the IPCC report and discuss the challenge of communicating the findings of a report of this size and scale.

This week, Dr. Cecilia Han Springer with the Global China Initiative at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center joins Nikos Tsafos and Jane Nakano (CSIS Energy) to talk about announcements from China at last week’s U.S. General Assembly meetings. Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the country would stop supporting (or building) new coal-fired power projects overseas and would move towards clean energy projects. Dr. Springer walks us through what this important announcement does and doesn’t include, what it says about China’s broader climate ambitions, implications for the Belt and Road Initiative, and how China will need to continue domestic efforts to reduce coal plants and lower emissions. for more on China's overseas coal finance, please check this: https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-commitment-stop-overseas-financing-new-coal-plants-perspective.

In today’s special release, Joseph Majkut and Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) talk with Jesse Jenkins (Princeton University) about the new draft legislation in the Congress designed to lower U.S carbon emissions from the electric power sector over the next ten years.

This week, Ira Joseph (S&P Global Platts) joins Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) to discuss natural gas markets. They dive into what’s behind recent gas price upheavals, then turn to European supply concerns, LNG exports, and U.S. production levels. They also look at the longer-term future of global gas as it competes not only with coal, especially in parts of Asia, but increasingly with renewables.

This week, Kevin Book (Clear View Energy Partners) and Sarah Ladislaw (RMI) join Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) for a look at climate and energy policies under the new Biden administration. The Administration came in with some ambitious climate and energy policies. Kevin, Sarah, and Nikos assess how much progress the Administration has made so far in moving those policies forward, both at home and internationally. They look at its broad emissions reduction plans, the development of climate-leaning industrial policy, and how the Administration is incorporating environmental justice into their policies. For more, read how Biden plans to decarbonize transportation.

This week, Partha Bhattacharyya (former chairman, Coal India Limited​) joins Sandeep Pai (CSIS/JTI) to discuss how Coal India Limited is preparing for a clean energy future. Mr. Bhattacharyya was chairman of Coal India from 2006-2011. Coal India Limited (CIL) is the largest coal producer in the world and how it manages the energy transition has major implications for the coal industry in India. They look at the strategies Coal India can use to diversify its portfolio, challenges to Coal India and the coal sector in navigating this energy transition, and how companies can ensure a just transition for the workers and communities most at risk.

This week Christi Tezak (Clear View Energy Partners) joins Ben Cahill (CSIS) to discuss oil pipelines in the United States. Christi and Ben look at how the Biden Administration is approaching pipeline issues, new actions from state-level governments, recent court rulings, and how these decisions may impact future pipeline projects.

This week, Ben Cahill (CSIS) is joined by Brian O’Callaghan and Jesse Burton to discuss how Covid-19 recovery can be more just, equitable and green. Brian is Lead Researcher and Project Manager of the Oxford University Economic Recovery Project, and Jesse is with the University of Cape Town and a Senior Associate with E3G, where she provides analysis and policy advice on coal transitions in South Africa and globally. Together, they look at how governments can ensure that their economic spending packages can accelerate a green recovery while also being inclusive and fair for all communities. For more, read: A Just Green Recovery from Covid-19 / https://justtransitioninitiative.org/a-just-green-recovery-from-covid-19/

This week, Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago) joins Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) to discuss the recently published roadmap for energy and climate policy published by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). This roadmap brings to the U.S. climate debate a host of practical recommendations to lead the transition to a decarbonized economy. Nikos and Michael look at key issues including carbon pricing, transportation, and efficiency while also looking at how to apply lessons learned from previous strategies. Read the Report: U.S. Energy and Climate Roadmap: Evidence-based Policies for Effective Action (https://epic.uchicago.edu/us-energy-and-climate-roadmap/)

This week, Neelima Jain (CSIS Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies) is joined by Saurabh Kumar (Energy Efficiency Services Limited or EESL) and Rahul Walawalkar (India Energy Storage Alliance) to discuss the role that energy storage can play in helping India meet its clean energy goals. Together, they examine the policy, regulatory, and economic opportunities and challenges facing both energy storage and Indian electricity sector.

This week, Ben Cahill (CSIS) is joined by Daniel Raimi and Wes Look (Resources for the Future) to discuss the latest report in their series focused on ensuring fairness for workers and communities in transition. They talk about the opportunities and challenges facing fossil fuel communities in the United States as well as policy strategies that should be adopted to help workers transition into the clean energy economy. For more read, https://www.rff.org/publications/reports/enabling-fairness-for-energy-workers-and-communities-in-transition/

This week we look at whether the Department of Energy is set up to meet the new climate and energy goals set out by the Biden Administration. Our guests, Tim Lieuwen (Georgia Tech), Adam Cohen (AUI and CSIS), and Leland Cogliani (Lewis Burke Associates) talk with Jane Nakano (CSIS Energy) about why modifying DoE’s current organization could help to meet some of the new mission objectives and the challenges and opportunities that come with any federal reorganization plan. Read the white paper: https://research.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/energy-ecosystem_lieuwencohen_021821_final-v2.pdf

This week, Jane Nakano (CSIS) talks with Representative Elaine Luria about energy and climate priorities for Representative Luria’s district. Representative Luria was first elected to represent Virginia’s Second Congressional District in 2018. Her district includes many coastal communities as well as 8 military installations. Previously, she served two decades in the Navy, retiring with the rank of Commander. Jane talks with Representative Luria about how her background as nuclear-trained officer played a role in her move to become a member of Congress as well as some of the key issues and policies she is advancing not only for her district but for country at large.

This week, Bloomberg energy and commodity reporters Javier Blas and Jack Farchy join Ben Cahill (CSIS) for a discussion of their new book, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources. Their discussion focuses on the influential role that commodity traders have played in global oil markets over the past four decades and looks ahead to how the commodities business may need to respond to new demands of the global energy economy.

As the energy transition in India accelerates, how do decisionmakers ensure that the transition is a just and equitable transition? Neha Sharma (CIF and JTI), Ajay Mathur (International Solar Alliance), Srestha Banerjee (iForest), and Mike Ward (CIF) look at the underlying drivers of India’s energy transitions, and key considerations for creating a just transition, including the need for fairness and equity, geographic disparities, lack of social mobility, labor policy, and energy access. This week’s episode is part of the Just Transitions Initiative, a partnership of the CSIS Energy Program and the Climate Investment Funds. For more, visit the Just Transition Initiative. Neha Sharma is Evaluation and Learning Specialist at the Climate Investment Funds and a core team member of the Just Transitions Initiative Ajay Mathur is Director General–designate for the International Solar Alliance, and formerly the Director General at the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India Srestha Banerjee is Program Head for Climate Justice and Natural Resource Management at iForest Mike Ward is Senior Sustainability Specialist at the Climate Investment Funds

This week, Dr. Emily Grubert, a professor at Georgia Tech, joins Stephen Naimoli (CSIS) to look at the recent winter storm in Texas that caused massive grid failures. Emily and Stephen consider what happened in Texas and why the grid there failed to handle the severe storm. They examine the tools and policies that decisionmakers can use to help the grid avoid problems like this and to prepare for worsening impacts as a result of climate change in the future. For more, read Stephen’s recent examiner: https://www.csis.org/analysis/extreme-weather-tests-grid-resilience-across-much-united-states And see Emily's bio for more of her work: https://spp.gatech.edu/people/person/emily-grubert

This week, Justin Wu (BloombergNEF) and Lachlan Carey (CSIS) take a tour of all things climate and energy related across Asia. They start with the outlook for U.S.-China relations on climate under the Biden Administration, consider the recent carbon neutral targets announced by Japan and Korea, move to the Covid recovery efforts and clean energy agenda in Vietnam, Indonesia, and India, and finally take a look at Australia and its technology-forward climate policy.

Ken Koyama (IEEJ) and Jane Nakano (CSIS Energy) look at recent energy and climate announcements from Japan. In October, Japan announced a plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. The climate pledge was followed by the launch of the Green Growth Strategy for Carbon Neutrality by 2050, in December. Ken and Jane look at what it will take to reach that target and its implications for Japan’s energy sector. For more, read https://www.csis.org/analysis/japan-seeks-carbon-neutrality-2050

Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) and Kevin Book (ClearView Energy Partners) look at the U.S. climate and energy agenda. Kevin and Sarah reflect on the outcome of the U.S. elections and the recent Senate race in Georgia, the divided nature of U.S. politics, the riots at the U.S. Capital, and how it all may affect the Administration’s energy and climate agenda.

This week our guest is Mark Viviano, a Managing Partner & Portfolio Manager with Kimmeridge. Kimmeridge is a private equity firm investing in low-cost unconventional oil and gas assets in the U.S., and is also an activist investor pushing for company reforms. Mark has analyzed companies in the energy sector for more than 15 years. Ben Cahill (CSIS) talks with Mark about reforming the shale sector and responding to ESG pressure, the role of activist investors, and what to expect in oil and gas markets in 2021. For more, read http://kimmeridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Governance_Paper_111620.pdf and http://kimmeridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Preparing-the-EP-Sector-for-the-Energy-Transition-A-New-Business-Model.pdf

This week’s Energy 360 is part of our Energy Futures Forum. This annual project looks at trends and their impacts on the energy sector over the next ten years. This year’s overarching theme was Covid-19 and how it has had immediate impacts on the energy sector and what we might see unfold in near and medium term. Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) talks with the three EFF discussion moderators to get their key takeaways and insights: Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) on the transportation sector, Ethan Zindler (BloombergNEF) on the electric power sector, and Taiya Smith (Garnet Strategies) on China.

This week Energy 360 highlights our project on Energy Transition Strategies, which examines how emerging economies are balancing economic growth while reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. We looked at three different places: Vietnam, Ethiopia, and the Indian state of Gujarat. In each of these 3 podcasts, Nikos Tsafos and Lachlan Carey talk with an expert about that state’s development and low-carbon transition pathways within the major sectors of electricity generation and access, transport, and industry. In this final episode of the mini-series, we look at Ethiopia’s pathway. Our guest is Easwaran Narassimhan, a research fellow at the Climate Policy Lab at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. For more, read Energy Transition Strategies: Ethiopia's Low-Carbon Development Pathway: https://www.csis.org/analysis/energy-transition-strategies-ethiopias-low-carbon-development-pathway

This week Energy 360 highlights our project on Energy Transition Strategies, which examines how emerging economies are balancing economic growth while reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. We looked at three different places: Vietnam, Ethiopia, and the Indian state of Gujarat. In each of these 3 podcasts, Nikos Tsafos and Lachlan Carey talk with an expert about that state’s development and low-carbon transition pathways within the major sectors of electricity generation and access, transport, and industry. In this episode we turn to Gujarat. Joining the show is Sarang Shidore, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a senior fellow with the Council on Strategic Risks. For more, read Energy Transition Strategies: Gujarat’s Low-Carbon Development Pathway: https://www.csis.org/analysis/energy-transition-strategies-gujarats-low-carbon-development-pathway

This week Energy 360 highlights our project on Energy Transition Strategies, which examines how emerging economies are balancing economic growth while reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. We looked at 3 different places: Vietnam, Ethiopia, and the Indian state of Gujarat. In each of these episodes, Nikos Tsafos and Lachlan Carey (CSIS Energy) talk with an expert about that state’s development and low-carbon transition pathways within the major sectors of electricity generation and access, transport, and industry. Our first episode looks at Vietnam. Joining the show is David Dapice – David is a senior economist with the Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School and a leading expert on the economic development of Southeast Asia. For more, read the Vietnam report: https://www.csis.org/analysis/energy-transition-strategies-vietnams-low-carbon-development-pathway To learn more about the project, visit the project site: https://www.csis.org/programs/energy-security-and-climate-change-program/projects/energy-transitions-low-carbon-pathways

This week our guest is Angus Taylor, the Australian Minister for Energy and Emissions. Joined by CSIS colleagues Sarah Ladislaw and Lachlan Carey, Minister Angus discusses the new technology-led climate approach that Australia is embarking on. They look at the priorities, mechanisms, and stakeholder engagement needed to ensure this is successful and sustained policy. They also look at possible areas of international collaboration on energy and climate issues, especially with a new Biden Administration and multilateral institutions like the G20. Read Australia’s Technology Investment Roadmap: https://www.industry.gov.au/data-and-publications/technology-investment-roadmap-first-low-emissions-technology-statement-2020

This week, we bring you a special two-part episode on the impacts of the U.S. elections on energy and climate policy. Our guests, Kevin Book with ClearView Energy Partners, Kyle Danish with Van Ness Feldman, and John Larsen with the Rhodium Group, join Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) to share their outlooks for U.S. energy policy over the next 4 years. They look at the big and not-so-big actions and tools that the Biden Administration will have at its disposal to promote its energy agenda across the federal and state-levels.

This week, we bring you a special two-part episode on the impacts of the U.S. elections on energy and climate policy. Our guests, Kevin Book with ClearView Energy Partners, Kyle Danish with Van Ness Feldman, and John Larsen with the Rhodium Group, join Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) to share their outlooks for U.S. energy policy over the next 4 years. They look at the big and not-so-big actions and tools that the Biden Administration will have at its disposal to promote its energy agenda across the federal and state-levels.

This week, our guest is Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece. Governor Stournaras joins my colleague Nikos Tsafos (CSIS Energy Program) and Stephanie Segal (CSIS Economics Program) to talk about the economic impacts of climate change, what the Bank of Greece is doing to help prepare the country for climate risks, and the role of central banks in addressing climate change.

This week, Sven Egenter, founder of the Clean Energy Wire, joins Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) to talk about Germany’s energy transition - Energiewende, the ambitious plan to make Germany climate-neutral by 2050. They look at different perceptions of the plan in and outside the country, examining how lessons learned by Germany may be instructive for policy makers seeking to make similar transitions.

This week Kevin Book (ClearView Energy Partners) and Paul Bodnar (Rocky Mountain Institute) join Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) on Energy 360 to make sense of the energy and climate issues playing out in upcoming U.S. elections and understand what’s at stake in the election for the future of the U.S. energy agenda (Recorded on Sept. 29.)

Just transitions have featured regularly in national-level conversations in South Africa around its energy transition plans and climate change policies and commitments. In this episode, hosted by Neha Sharma of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), we explore the opportunities and challenges that South Africa faces in moving its just transition forward, and lessons which countries and leaders can learn from the case of South Africa. Neha is joined by two experts from South Africa: Brenda Martin (University of Cape Town) and Mike Ward (Rhodes University and Creating Sustainable Value) to dive into the multiple dimensions necessary to crafting a just transition. This week’s episode is part of the Just Transition Initiative (link below), a partnership of the CSIS Energy Program and the Climate Investment Funds. Resources: https://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/news/supporting-just-transitions-south-africa?cid=cif_tt_cif_en_ext https://www.csis.org/programs/energy-security-and-climate-change-program/projects/just-transition-initiative https://www.csis.org/analysis/who-needs-just-transition https://www.csis.org/podcasts/energy-360%C2%B0/just-transitions-introduction https://www.csis.org/podcasts/energy-360%C2%B0/just-transitions-assessing-gender-dimensions

This week, guests Adrienne Cruz with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and May Thazin Aung with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) join Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) to discuss the gender dimensions of just transitions and offer recommendations for understanding and incorporating these dimensions into planning and implementation. Resources: www.ilo.org/ged www.ilo.org/global/topics/green-jobs https://www.sei.org/featured/just-transition/ https://www.sei.org/publications/assessing-the-gender-and-social-equity-dimensions-of-energy-transitions/ https://www.sei.org/publications/low-carbon-transitions-in-west-sumatra-indonesia-gender-and-equity-dimensions/ https://www.csis.org/programs/energy-security-and-climate-change-program/projects/just-transition-initiative

Morgan Bazilian, executive director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, joins CSIS Energy Program Director Sarah Ladislaw to discuss energy access globally and some of the metrics used to measure access. Morgan and his colleagues recently released 'Measuring Reasonably Reliable Access to Electricity Services' (link below), which provides an in-depth view of the gaps in global electricity access and how quality of access matters as much as quantity. Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040619020301202

This week we dive into the U.S. energy transportation infrastructure. Kevin Book with ClearView Energy Partners and a CSIS non-resident Senior Associate talks with Amy Shank, Director of Pipeline Integrity at Williams, and Shawn Bennett, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil and Gas, U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy, about the National Petroleum Council study (link below). As participants in the study, they discuss its key recommendations, what has changed since its release, and the importance of building major studies like it. Dynamic Delivery: America’s Evolving Oil and Natural Gas Transportation Infrastructure: https://dynamicdelivery.npc.org/

This week, Sarah Ladislaw and Nikos Tsafos (CSIS Energy) talk with Heather Conley (SVP for Europe, Eurasia, & the Arctic, Director of the CSIS Europe Program) and Scott Kennedy (Senior Adviser & Trustee Chair in Chinese Business & Economics) about geopolitical competition with the United States, Russia, and China and the strategic role that energy plays in these relationships. To learn more, read the recent CSIS analysis: https://www.csis.org/analysis/race-top-case-new-us-international-energy-policy https://www.csis.org/features/countering-russian-chinese-influence-activities https://www.csis.org/analysis/washingtons-china-policy-has-lost-its-wei

This week, Energy 360 looks at e-mobility in India. Sarah Ladislaw, Director of the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program, speaks with Siddarthan Balasubramanian, Senior Advisor, Strategy at ClimateWorks, and Neelima Jain, Deputy Director, CSIS Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies, about India’s progress on its ambitious electric mobility plans, how Indian states are taking innovative steps to advance those goals, and the role that subnational cooperation like India’s and the United States’, could serve as a platform to accelerate sustainable mobility solutions. For further reading: https://www.csis.org/analysis/mapping-us-india-partnerships-electric-mobility https://www.climateworks.org/programs/transportation/ https://www.climateworks.org/report/covid-19-and-climate-action-understanding-key-trends/

This week, we look at the energy developments in Mexico. Lisa Viscidi, director of the Energy, Climate Change & Extractive Industries Program at the Inter-American Dialogue, talks with CSIS Senior Fellow Ben Cahill about recent developments in the Mexican energy sector, including the impacts of Covid-19, especially on the oil sector. They also look how the AMLO presidency is changing investments in the energy sector, adopting new regulatory plans and tax reforms with implications for electricity markets as well as the oil and gas sector. More from Lisa: Latin American State Oil Companies and Climate Change: Decarbonization Strategies and Role in the Energy Transition

In this special episode, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette joins Sarah Ladislaw, director of the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program, for a discussion about how the U.S. energy sector has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and the changing nature of energy security. Secretary Brouillette and Sarah discuss changes over the last 30 years and how recent developments in U.S. oil and gas supply and demand are reshaping energy security. The Secretary also expands on the recent executive order focused on securing the U.S. energy supply chain. They then turn to the performance of the electric power sector and how the Department of Energy is working with utilities to ensure added preparedness and resiliency for the upcoming hurricane and wildfire seasons.

Kevin Book (Clearview Energy Partners; CSIS), Liam Denning (Bloomberg), and Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) join Energy 360 once again to look at energy and climate developments so far in 2020, and what has changed since the beginning of the year. Since they last joined us in late December 2019, (2020 Vision for Energy and Climate), so much has changed. With the coronavirus toppling the global economy, Kevin, Liam, and Sarah try to understand what is really happening in the energy sector, how underlying issues have been magnified by the pandemic, and how governments and the energy sector are responding. They then turn to what role stimulus packages could play and look ahead to the U.S. presidential elections.

Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), and Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) talk impacts from covid-19 on energy supply and demand. They dive into how global economic recovery efforts are shaping up and how governments should design green stimulus packages with the goal of fostering the energy transition and building resiliency.

A just transition is crucial to address global climate change. Mafalda Duarte, head of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Nick Robins, Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance with the Grantham Institute, and Sarah Ladislaw, SVP and director of the CSIS energy Security and Climate Change Program, explain the importance of a just transition in the context of their work, as well as how investors can engage with just transitions. They also examine the impact from the COVID 19 pandemic – and subsequent responses – on the just transition agenda. For more on the Just Transition Initiative, a new partnership project developed by CSIS and CIF: https://www.csis.org/analysis/who-needs-just-transition https://www.csis.org/programs/energy-security-and-climate-change-program/projects/just-transition-initiative

Robin Mills, CEO of Qamar Energy based in Dubai, joins Ben Cahill, Senior Fellow in the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program, to discuss energy sector implications of Covid-19 in the Middle East. They focus on how the Gulf states are responding to the pandemic and the volatility in the oil markets. They also look at how the downturn is affecting gas consumption in the Middle East and whether there is an opportunity for energy subsidy reform in some of the region’s countries.

Yao Li, founder and CEO of SIA Energy based in Beijing, and Ben Cahill, Senior Fellow in the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program, look at the implications of Covid-19 for the energy sector in China. Ben and Yao discuss the direction Chinese economic recovery may take as energy demand—especially in transportation—begins to rebound. They also delve into how the recovery is likely to be uneven across the energy sector, including oil, refining, natural gas and LNG, and inventories. Part of our series of deep dives into the energy implications of Covid-19.

This week we bring you three podcasts with views from around the world about Covid-19 impacts on the energy sector. In this first episode, Arunabha Ghosh (CEEW) talks with Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) about implications of Covid-19 in India; how it has impacted the electric power sector, renewable energy projects, and economic growth. They offer thoughts on whether there is an opportunity going forward to stimulate green growth and promote an energy transition in India.

Dr. Katherine Levine Einstein (Boston University) joins Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) to talk about infrastructure and transportation priorities of U.S. mayors, as outlined in the most recent Menino Survey of Mayors.

In this week’s Energy 360, Energy Program Director Sarah Ladislaw talks with Dan Reicher (Stanford's Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance) about clean energy options in the economic stimulus packages. Dan was a member of the Obama administration's transition team, which passed a $90 billion clean energy stimulus package. They discuss what lessons could be learned from previous stimulus packages and what new options the Congress and Administration have to revive the economy which could also promote clean energy and address climate change impacts. Dan is the founding executive director of Stanford's Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, formerly Google's director of climate and energy initiatives, DOE assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy and the Department’s chief of staff in the Clinton administration, and a member of the Obama administration's transition team and Secretary of Energy Advisory board. He recently wrote the op-ed, Turning the Virus into a Virtue — for the Planet.

Ditte Juul Jørgensen, director general for energy with the European Commission, talks with Nikos Tsafos (CSIS) about the European Green Deal. This new roadmap provides a framework for the EU to be carbon neutral by 2050 and develops best practices to meet new energy targets and to maintain forward momentum for the energy transition across Europe (recorded in late February). For more, read: A European Green Deal: https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en Why Europe’s Green Deal Still Matters: https://www.csis.org/analysis/why-europes-green-deal-still-matters

Jon Alterman (CSIS Middle East Program) and Frank Verrastro (CSIS Energy Program) join Energy 360 this week to update us on the fast moving developments from OPEC, the oil markets, Saudi Arabia, and across the Middle East. Note: As the COVID-19 pandemic changes rapidly, the frequency and quality of this series may vary over the next month. But we are still in production as we try to get you the most up-to-date information, so you won't miss out on Energy 360.