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May 2, 2024

RealEcon
Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific: An ADB Perspective

As part of the CFR RealEcon Roundtable Series, Scott Morris, vice president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), explained how the ADB supports countries in the Indo-Pacific region amid shifting geop…

Scott Morris speaks at a CFR roundtable event.

April 25, 2024

Renewable Energy
Energy and Trade Priorities With Governor J. Kevin Stitt

Kevin Stitt, twenty-eighth governor of Oklahoma, discusses his international priorities, including Oklahoma’s growing role in the renewable energy landscape, ensuring access to a sustainable supply o…

Play Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt gestures a thumbs up onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas.

February 28, 2024

Renewable Energy
Academic Webinar: Energy Security

Meghan L. O’Sullivan, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Jeane Kirkpatrick professor of the practice of international affairs at Harvard University, leads the…

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March 21, 2024

Nuclear Energy
Senegal and Slovakia Elections, Pakistan and Afghan Taliban Clash, Nuclear Energy Gains Favor, and More

Senegal holds its postponed presidential election amid fears of democratic backsliding; Slovakia chooses a new president in voting that could bolster Prime Minister Robert Fico’s illiberal tilt; Paki…

Podcast Heads of state and senior officials pose for a family photo during the IAEA Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on March 21, 2024.

April 29, 2024

United States
What Is the CHIPS Act?

Extraordinary U.S. government incentives are proving popular with many large chipmakers, but it is too early to tell how much of the semiconductor industry can be lured back to the United States. …

August 7, 2023

Energy and Environment
Global Energy Tracker

As the effects of climate change mount, high-carbon energy sources continue to provide most of the world’s power. On average, 84 percent of tracker countries’ energy comes from high-carbon sources su…

April 17, 2024

Europe
A Conversation With Christine Lagarde

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde discusses the state of the European economy, U.S.-EU economic cooperation, and the implications of international geopolitical conflicts on the global…

Play Christine Lagarde speaking with the IMF logo in the background.

September 26, 2023

Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy

Kim Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, discusses the recent achievement of a net energy gain from a nuclear fusion reaction and its implications for the futu…

Play Fusion reactor, illustration. Nuclear fusion is the combination of atomic nuclei, a process that releases massive amounts of energy. If this process could be harnessed it could be an unlimited source of clean renewable energy.

July 18, 2023

Arctic
Changing Geopolitics in the Arctic

Changing Geopolitics in the Arctic Prepared statement by Esther D. Brimmer James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance Council on Foreign Relations   Before the Subc…

Esther D. Brimmer testifying on "Changing Politics in the Arctic" at a congressional hearing held by the U.S. House Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security on Strategic Competition in the Arctic on July 18, 2023.