The Paris Climate Agreement could positively disrupt Latin America’s development
Even though the Paris Climate Agreement will not enter into force until 2020, Latin America should continue to develop and implement its climate policies.
Climate and energy
COP21 and the Paris Agreement: a diplomacy masterclass in search of greater climate ambition
The Paris Agreement is a turning point in the multilateral fight against climate change. Implementation will, however, be key in determining the extent of our collective will to limit dangerous interference with the climate system.
Lessons from the Paris Climate Summit: the inductive global governance
The Paris Climate Summit (COP21) has given rise to a new type of governance. The process has been undertaken from the bottom up.
The EU and resource governance: rules and facts
Resource governance is a relatively novel issue in global and European energy governance
The Energiewende and Germany’s Industrial Policy
The Energiewende is bringing about fundamental changes to Germany’s energy mix through short, medium and long term targets.
Cheaper oil, geopolitical effects
Oil has already dropped to three-quarters of the price it had in June. This may have economic consequences: some wished for while others are to be feared.
Climate change diplomacy in Spain’s future foreign policy
This paper analyses Spain’s climate diplomacy in line with the Elcano report titled ‘Towards a Strategic Updating of Spain’s Foreign Policy’ and the State Foreign Action and Service Law (Ley de la Acción y del Servicio Exterior del Estado, LAESE).
Nabucco’s coup de grâce
On 28 June 2013 the Shah Deniz Consortium (SDC) took a historic decision that put an end to a decade-long pipeline race to bring Central Asian gas to Europe. The big loser was Nabucco, a project that the European Commission once considered ’strategic’ for the opening of the Southern Gas Corridor.
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