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Climate and energy

Three reasons to be ambitious with the Climate Change and Energy Transition Law
Climate and energy Experts Comments

Three reasons to be ambitious with the Climate Change and Energy Transition Law

Spain's ratification of the Paris Agreement: an ambitious text in line with our international climate commitments.

27 Jun 2018 //
9 mins Reading time
Oil pump in Baku. Photo: Gulustan / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Climate and energy Analyses

Energy in 2018: geopolitical tensions OPEC+ and Trump Year II

The year 2018 points to oil prices above the 2017 average, to a tightening of geopolitical dynamics in the Middle East and to a growing rivalry between OPEC+ and unconventional producers in the US.

By Gonzalo Escribano
17 Apr 2018 //
28 mins Reading time
Wind turbines in Tarifa. Photo: Hernán Piñera (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Climate and energy Analyses

Climate change in 2018: from post-Trump global climate governance to Spain

What climate change developments are foreseeable in 2018 at the global level, in the EU-28 and in Spain?

05 Mar 2018 //
15 mins Reading time
Year one of Trump’s energy policy. Demonstrator against the Dakota Access Pipeline at a rally in Philadelphia.
Climate and energy Experts Comments

Year one of Trump’s energy policy

Trump will have to choose between his election promises or take on the business and market dynamics of his country's energy policy.

By Gonzalo Escribano
30 Jan 2018 //
9 mins Reading time
Venezuela and PDVSA: killing the goose that lays golden eggs. PDVSA Towers in Maracaibo.
Climate and energy Experts Comments

Venezuela and PDVSA: killing the goose that lays golden eggs

Venezuela, which depends almost entirely on its oil exports, is surprised to see its national oil company scorned.

By Asier Achutegui
19 Jan 2018 //
8 mins Reading time
COP23 - UN Climate Change Conference, November 2017. Photo: © Axel Kirch / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Climate and energy Analyses

Climate change & COP23: urgency, exams, rules and the Talanoa spirit

International resolve to address climate change infused COP23 with an inclusive spirit that resulted in enough progress to take us through to negotiation crunch-time at COP24. The well-below 2ºC degree guardrail, our collectively agreed temperature goal, is still however stubbornly out of reach.

By Lara Lázaro Touza
11 Jan 2018 //
41 mins Reading time
The destabilising effect of cheap oil. Foto: Josh Sullivan / Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0). Blog Elcano
Climate and energy Experts Comments

The destabilising effect of cheap oil

By Andrés Ortega
04 Jul 2017 //
4 mins Reading time
The Paris Agreement after Trump and the future of climate action. Two demonstrators in the Climate March on 29 April.
Climate and energy Experts Comments

The Paris Agreement after Trump and the future of climate action

The message from world leaders is clear: there is no intention of abandoning the Paris agreement that has taken over five years to negotiate.

06 Jun 2017 //
6 mins Reading time
Oil refinery in Halifax, Canada. Photo: Glenn Euloth (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Climate and energy Analyses

Energy and the climate in 2017: limited volatility, climate implementation and political uncertainty

The main factors likely to shape the energy and climate fields in 2017 are: a relatively contained volatility in the prices of oil and the implementation of increasingly ambitious climate policies in a context of political uncertainty.

By Gonzalo Escribano, Lara Lázaro Touza
23 May 2017 //
32 mins Reading time

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