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In this week’s special episode, Ben Cahill and Jon Alterman discuss recent developments in the Middle East, U.S. policy objectives in the region, and how the oil market's response to geopolitical risks has changed.Further Reading: A Détente Option for Iran

This week, Ben Cahill speaks with Akshat Rathi, a senior climate reporter for Bloomberg and author of the book Climate Capitalism. In his book, Rathi explores how governments can create the right policy environment to unlock the potential for innovative climate solutions from businesses and individuals. Further Reading: Climate Capitalism: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age. 

On this special episode of Energy 360, Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Director General of DG Energy at the European Commission and Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources at the U.S. State Department, talk with CSIS Energy Program director Joseph Majkut about the U.S.-EU Energy Council and its agenda for jointly addressing energy security and climate change. Further reading: Joint Statement by the U.S. and EU following the 11th U.S.-EU Energy Council 

This week, Ben Cahill talks with Georges Tijbosch about how certifying natural gas could help create a lower-emission energy future. Georges is the CEO of a company called MIQ, or Methane IQ. MIQ is a global leader in methane emissions certification. It aims to create transparency by providing buyers with information about the emissions associated with the natural gas they are purchasing.Read More: Why Methane & Certification? 

Climate expert Nat Bullard discusses decarbonization trends with insights on challenges in hard-to-decarbonize sectors like steel, impact of interest rates on capital flows, role of technology, AI's potential in climate solutions, and the importance of maintaining momentum in decarbonization efforts.

This week, Adam Johnson, Managing Partner with Metis Endeavor, joins Gracelin Baskaran to share his insights on the role of critical minerals in the energy transition. Adam and Gracelin look at the mining sector’s pathway for supporting and sustaining the transition. They drill into the impact of U.S. government policies on private investments, the importance of government support and coordinated efforts across the sector, as well as the need for increased financing for mining projects. Adam also discusses some challenges and risks associated with investing in critical minerals, such as price volatility and competition with China. Further Reading: Adding a Critical Minerals Agreement to the AGOA Reauthorization  What China’s Ban on Rare Earths Processing Technology Exports Means 

This week, Tim Gould, Chief Energy Economist at the International Energy Agency joins Joseph Majkut, director of the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program, to discuss highlights from the World Energy Outlook and the need to scale up renewables, improve energy efficiency, reduce methane emissions, and address critical minerals production in order to maintain momentum for clean energy deployment.Tim Gould was appointed the Agency's Chief Energy Economist in 2021. As Chief Energy Economist, he provides strategic advice on energy economics across a wide range of IEA activities and analysis. Mr. Gould is also Head of the Division for Energy Supply and Investment Outlooks, in which capacity he co-leads the World Energy Outlook, the IEA's flagship publication, and oversees the Agency's work on investment and finance, including the World Energy Investment report.Mr Gould joined the IEA in 2008, initially as a specialist on Russian and Caspian energy, and in recent years has designed and directed the World Energy Outlook together with the IEA's Chief Energy Modeller while contributing to the Outlook as a principal author. Prior to joining the IEA, Mr Gould worked on European and Eurasian energy issues in Brussels and has ten years of experience in Eastern Europe, primarily in Ukraine. He graduated from Oxford University and has a post-graduate diploma from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.

This week, André de Ruyter, former CEO of Eskom the South African national power utility, joins Cy McGeady and Gracelin Baskaran to discuss South Africa’s energy sector and its energy transition plans. In the discussion, Andre draws on his time at Eskom to emphasize the importance of long-term planning and policy decisions for the electricity sector in South Africa.

Kevin Book, ClearView Energy Partners and Senior Adviser (non-resident), CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program, and Liam Denning, Columnist, Bloomberg Opinion, joined Joseph Majkut, CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program to assess which energy developments in 2023 have staying power and look ahead to the energy and climate issues to watch next year.Watch the CSIS Event: 2023 Energy and Climate Review

This week, Trevor Houser, a partner at the Rhodium Group, joins Allegra Dawes (CSIS) to discuss highlights from the Clean Investment Monitor. The Clean Investment Monitor, a joint project of Rhodium Group and MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, tracks public and private climate investments since 2018. In the past year, clean energy investment in the United States totaled $213 billion, a 37 percent increase from the previous year, largely due to new legislation passed in the United States (the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, and the Chips and Science Act) and up 165 percent from five years ago.Further Reading:The Clean Investment Monitor: Tracking Decarbonization Technology in the United StatesThe Clean Investment Monitor