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Guyana’s Journey: President Ali’s Second Term and Economic Ambitions – José Enrique Arrioja/AQ

EnergiesNet — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:17:18 +0000

As President Ali seeks a second term in November’s general elections, the government is handing out cash transfers and free college tuition. By José Enrique Arrioja Guyana continues to surprise. When we published our broad overview of the nation a year ago, its economy was expected to grow 21% in 2024. However, as total crude output exceeded …

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Trump’s Tariffs Risk Trade War with Mexico, but Natural Gas Flows Safe – Christopher Lenton / NGI

EnergiesNet — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 19:12:32 +0000

Trump’s Tariffs Threaten Trade War with Mexico, but Natural Gas Remains Unaffected for Now By Christopher Lenton U.S. President-elect Trump’s social media announcement that he would impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico set off a series of alarm bells in the energy sector across the integrated North American region. Mexican President Claudia …

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Public Letter to Summit Of The Future NYC | 2024 – Frank Bracho

EnergiesNet — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:11:16 +0000

By Frank Bracho, (Coordinator of G6) Introduction …How badly we need such a forum! But: ¡¿How can we have a “good” future from such a “bad” -or troubled- present?! Both nationally and globally? Mystics (from our own, to those of the UN -like its second Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, and even Taoists -whether Chinese or not! ), …

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The AI Safety Debate Is All Wrong – Daron Acemoglu

EnergiesNet — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 07:06:12 +0000

Today’s anxiety about the risks posed by artificial intelligence reflects a tendency to anthropomorphize AI and causes us to focus on the wrong issues. Since any technology can be used for good or bad, what ultimately matters is who controls it, what their objectives are, and what kind of regulations they are subjected to. By …

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The Solar Forecast Is Clouding Up. Here’s Who Wins and Loses. – Laura Sanicola

EnergiesNet — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 20:55:35 +0000

By Laura Sanicola Solar is booming in the U.S., but picking sector winners is only getting tougher as new trade barriers take hold. The industry is benefitting from consumer and corporate tax breaks in the Inflation Reduction Act. Demand is getting a lift from a drop in panel prices, while domestic panel production and installations …

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Climate Policy Is Working – Kelly Sims Gallagher

EnergiesNet — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:22:54 +0000

By Kelly Sims Gallagher Climate change is not just transforming the environment: it is also exacting a marked toll on mental health. In July 2023, scientists at Yale published a study of the psychological effects of climate change on adults in the United States and found that seven percent were experiencing mild to severe climate-related …

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Democracies Aren’t the Peacemakers Anymore – Chester Croker

EnergiesNet — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:23:47 +0000

By Chester Croker Authoritarian states’ traditional approach to conflict outside their borders is to choose sides—supplying political-diplomatic support and military muscle to their allies—or to freeze the conflict while keeping a hand in to stir the pot and shape possible outcomes. Russia has done both: the first by backing Syria’s Bashar al Assad against various …

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No, Russia Is Not Winning -A. Fedyk and Y. Gorodnichenko/PS

EnergiesNet — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:26:19 +0000

By Anastassia Fedyk and Yuriy Gorodnichenko Two years after Russia launched its full-scale war of aggression, Ukraine is still holding the line militarily, and even beginning to recover economically. As much as Vladimir Putin wants the world to think he has shielded the Russian economy from blowback, recent financial and economic developments suggest otherwise. BERKELEY …

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Ukraine’s secret weapon: Art – Anna Husarska and Mikhail Reva/WP

EnergiesNet — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:00:58 +0000

By Anna Husarska and Mikhail Reva Two years ago, when Russia launched its war against Ukraine, Mikhail Reva, a sculptor, was working on a fountain in Dnipro, a city in the center of the country that is now close to the front lines. Before the full-scale invasion, on Feb. 24, 2022, Reva was known for …

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The world is transitioning to American oil from Saudi crude – Javier Blas

EnergiesNet — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:42:08 +0000

By Javier Blas Picture the scene: Weeks after the world came together at the COP28 summit with a deal for “transitioning away from fossil fuels,” Saudi Arabia, the oil industry’s flagship producer, cancels a planned increase in its crude output capabilities. On paper, it’s the stuff climate activists dream about. No so fast. First, the …

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Letters from an America: U.S. – Ukranie – Russia

EnergiesNet — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:04:31 +0000

By Heather Cox Richarson Although few Americans paid much attention at the time, the events of February 18, 2014, in Ukraine would turn out to be a linchpin in how the United States ended up where it is a decade later. On that day ten years ago, after months of what started as peaceful protests, …

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Crisis in Haiti – Brian Ellsworth/CQ

EnergiesNet — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:41:17 +0000

By Brian Ellsworth Haitian gangs have become so powerful in the past five years that they are disrupting basic activities and making elections impossible through constant turf wars and violence against innocent civilians. Their expansion has coincided with a constitutional crisis fueled by the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. That left the country to …

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