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Why should China fully support Iran in Persian Gulf tensions?
According to many international thinkers
creating tensions in the Persian Gulf region by the U.S. also aims at
containing China and limiting Beijing’s access to energy...
Maritime incidents in the Persian Gulf
On June 13
last, the US Fifth Fleet - stationed in Manama, Bahrain - received two
different danger alerts - one at 6.12 and the other...
Fossil fuel support is rising again in a threat to climate change efforts
Fossil-fuel
subsidies are environmentally harmful, costly, and distortive. After a 3
years downward trend between 2013 and 2016, government support for fossil fuel
production and use has risen...
The tension between Iran and the United States
At the beginning of last summer, precisely on May 8,
2018, US President Donald J. Trump carried out one of his old projects, i.e. to
explicitly...
Fossil fuel consumption subsidies bounced back strongly in 2018
Authors: Wataru Matsumura and Zakia
Adam*
Higher average oil prices in 2018 pushed up the value
of global fossil fuel consumption subsidies back up toward levels last...
International action can scale up hydrogen to make it a key part of a clean and secure energy future
The world has an important
opportunity to tap into hydrogen’s vast potential to become a critical part of
a more sustainable and secure energy future, the...
Oil Market Report: 2020 vision
In this Report, we publish our first outlook for 2020.
As we do so, volatility has returned to oil markets with a dramatic sell-off in
late...
Businesses Double Down on Sustainability as Consumers Focus on Costs
While most businesses have intensified their sustainability
efforts, many residential consumers’ actions have stalled as cost and
complexity have slowed commitment to clean-energy solutions, according to
Deloitte’s...
Energy and Geopolitics is Under Attack
Global warming. Climate change. Renewable
energy. Carbon-free societies. All of these terms have gained status, as the
balm to eliminate fossil fuels, which is supposedly causing...
District heating needs flexibility to navigate the energy transition
Heating in buildings is at the core of energy
consumption – space heating and hot water production account for around 70% of
energy consumption in residential...