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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.