ARTICLES
November 30, 2023

China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country

The Economist
August 5, 2023

The Energy Transition Will Be a Wild Ride. We Don’t Have a Road Map.

Barron's
July 29, 2023

Time-traveling pathogens from melting permafrost pose great risk to the Earth

Earth.com
June 27, 2023

Helping Poorer Countries Fund the Climate Transition

Financial Times
April 1, 2023

Deep-sea mining is key to making transition to clean energy, says Rwb

Financial Times
March 30, 2023

Life after Climate Change

National Review
March 16, 2023

19 Republican States Create Anti-ESG Alliance RWB

Chief Investment Officer
March 2, 2023

Congress Adds Fuel to Anti-ESG Fire

Chief Investment Officer
February 23, 2023

ESG Shock That Hit BlackRock, Pimco Triggers Split in EU

Bloomberg
February 16, 2023

Navigating Contrived Catastrophes

RealClearPolitics
February 3, 2023

SEC Considers Easing Climate-Disclosure Rules After Investor Pushback

Wall Street Journal
February 2, 2023

How to Reverse the World’s Plastic Predicament

Bloomberg
February 2, 2023

Hindenburg Research, attacker of the Adani empire

The Economist
February 2, 2023

Joe Biden’s effort to remake the economy is ambitious, risky—and selfish

The Economist
January 25, 2023

How much innovation is necessary to see off fossil fuels?

The Economist
January 19, 2023

The Pushback against ESG Investing

National Review
January 12, 2023

Climate Startup Removes Carbon From Open Air in Industry First

Wall Street Journal
January 10, 2023

Fed will not become a ‘climate policymaker’, says Jay Powell

Financial Times
December 2, 2022

Why Silicon Valley is so hot on nuclear energy and what it means for the industry

CNBC
November 29, 2022

Why America Doesn’t Have Enough EV Charging Stations

Wall Street Journal
November 5, 2022

The world is going to miss the totemic 1.5°C climate target

The Economist
November 3, 2022

The world is missing its lofty climate targets. Time for some realism

The Economist
October 18, 2022

Reducing energy options doesn’t work. Just ask Europe—and the U.S. states where gas prices are rising

Fortune
October 17, 2022

Was Milton Friedman the first 'woke' capitalist?

Fortune
September 15, 2022

John Doerr: Climate Change Action Plan Guide

Morgan Stanley
July 3, 2022

The Circular Cities Barometer

Bloomberg
June 30, 2022

Four Charts Speak Volumes About Global Energy

Bloomberg Green
June 8, 2022

We’re giving kids “climate anxiety” and it’s not necessary

Vox
June 7, 2022

Why nuclear energy is on the verge of a renaissance

CNBC
June 3, 2022

America’s net-zero shift

McKinsey & Company
June 1, 2022

Corals are threatened by global warming

The Economist
May 25, 2022

The economic importance of biodiversity

Sarah Kapnick
May 15, 2022

2022 Annual Energy Paper: The Elephants in the Room

JP Morgan
May 8, 2022

Energy Reference for Conference

Michael Cembalest, Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy, JP Morgan Asset Management
April 27, 2022

Is "socially responsible" investing socially responsible?

Thunder Said Energy
April 26, 2022

Global Energy Perspective 2022

McKinsey & Co.
April 23, 2022

California wants to lead the world on climate policy

The Economist
April 22, 2022

Fossil Fuels’ Forthright Defender

Wall Street Journal
April 22, 2022

World economy set to lose up to 18% GDP from climate change if no action taken

Swiss Re
April 19, 2022

Top Projects 2022: The Return of the Energy Investment Cycle

Goldman Sachs
April 13, 2022

Climate Funds Dig Deeper Roots

Morning Star
April 1, 2022

Investing in Times of Climate Change 2022

Morningstar
March 17, 2022

Carbonomics: Security of Supply and the Return of Energy Capex

Goldman Sachs
March 3, 2022

Annual Energy Outlook 2022

U.S. Energy Information Administration
February 27, 2022

IPCC Climate Change 2022 Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

International Panel on Climate Change
February 23, 2022

The Distortions of Cheap Energy

Goehring & Rozencwajg
January 25, 2022

The economic transformation: What would change in the net-zero transition

McKinsey & Company
January 1, 2022

The net-zero transition: What it would cost, what it could bring

McKinsey & Company
December 31, 2021

The Question of the Year: What Are the Biggest Threats to Humanity in 2022?

Intersting Engineering
October 1, 2021

World Energy Outlook 2021

International Energy Agency
September 15, 2021

Affordable And Reliable: Creating competitive electricity markets to deliver consumers affordable, reliable, and low-emission electricity

Pacific Research Institute
July 15, 2021

Summary of Growth, by Vaclav Smil

Britt Harris
April 1, 2021

Global Energy Review 2021

International Energy Agency
March 4, 2021

Climate Risk Among SEC’s 2021 Compliance Priorities

Chief Investment Officer
May 1, 2020

The Climate Club: How to Fix a Failing Global Effort

William Nordhaus
April 30, 2020

Climate math: What a 1.5-degree pathway would take

McKinsey & Company
January 1, 2019

ND-GAIN Country Index: Summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges

University of Notre Dame
January 1, 2018

Projections and Uncertainties about Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies

William Nordhaus
January 1, 2018

Climate Vulnerability of UAA Cities

University of Notre Dame

Global Energy Outlook

JP Morgan

Energy in The State of the Union in Numbers

USA Facts
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Phil Deutch
Partner, NGP ETP
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Raghu Belur
Chief Products Officer & Co-Founder, Enphase
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Senator Phil Gramm
Former Texas Senator; Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
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Bob Litterman
Founding Partner & Chairman of Risk Committee, Kepos Capital; Former Goldman Sachs; Ph.D
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Henry Fernandez
Chairman & CEO, MSCI
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Toby Rice
CEO, EQT Corp.
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Wil Vanloh
Founder & CEO, Quantum Energy Partners
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Barry Blattman
Vice Chairman, Brookfield
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David Blood
Founding & Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management
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Mark McCombe
Senior Managing Director, Chief Client Officer, BlackRock
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Mark Carney
Vice Chair and Head of Transition Investing, Brookfield; Former Governor of the Bank of England
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Vicki Hollub
CEO, Occidential Petroleum
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Scott Anderson
Senior Director, Energy, Environmental Defense Fund
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Michael Greenstone
Director of Becker Friedman Institute, Professor, University of Chicago; Ph.D.
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Julio Friedmann
Chief Scientist, Carbon Direct; Non-Resident Fellow, Columbia University; Ph.D.
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Chris Levesque
President & CEO, TerraPower
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Al Vickers
President, BP Wind Energy
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Steve Koonin
Author / Scientist, Former BP & Department of Energy; Ph.D.
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Starlee Sykes
Senior Vice President, BP (Gulf of Mexico and Canada)
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Scott Sheffield
CEO, Pioneer Natural Resources
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Paula Gant
Senior Vice President, GTI; Former Department of Energy; Ph.D.
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Ken Medlock
Fellow, Baker Institute, Rice University; Ph.D.
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Brad Jones
Interim President & CEO, ERCOT
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Professor William Sahlman
Professor Emeritus, Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School, Ph.D.
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Jonathan Silver
Senior Advisor, Guggenheim Partners; Former Executive Director, Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy
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Mark Stahlman
President, Center for the Study of Digital Life (CSDL); CEO, Exogenous; Managing Partner, TMT Strategies
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Arun Majumdar
Professor & Senior Fellow, Stanford University; Ph.D.
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Daniel Yergin
Vice Chairman, IHS Markit / S&P Global; Founder & Co-Chair, CERAWeek; Ph.D.
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Jason Bordoff
Dean, Director & Professor, Columbia Climate School, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
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Amin Nasser
President & CEO, Saudi Aramco
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Ernest Moniz
Former US Secretary of Energy; Founder, Energy Futures Initiative; Ph.D.
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VIDEOS AND PODCASTS
February 3, 2021

Committee Hearing to Examine Global Climate Trends and Progress in Addressing Climate Change

US Senate
January 1, 2022

Energy Poverty Primers

Switch Energy Alliance
September 4, 2012

Switch Trailer

Switch Energy Alliance
October 1, 2020

Switch On Trailer

Switch Energy Alliance
April 28, 2022

Scott Tinker’s TED Talk

TED. This is for private use only, and not to be circulated. The talk will be posted at TED within a few weeks.
BOOKS

Apocalypse Never

Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Michael Shellenberger

Disorder

Hard Times in the 21st Century
Helen Thompson

Energy

A Beginner's Guide
Vaclav Smil

Factfulness

Anna Rosling

Grow the Pie

How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit
Alex Edmans

Growth

From Microorganisms to Megacities
Vaclav Smil

Growth for Good

Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe
Alessio Terzi

How the World Really Works

A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
Vaclav Smil

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Bill Gates

Juice

Robert Bryce

More from Less

The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next
Andrew McAfee

Speed & Scale

John Doerr

Sustainable

Terrence Keeley

The Bottomless Well

The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
Mark P. Mills and Peter W. Huber

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Alex Epstein

The New Climate War

Michael Mann

The New Map

Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
Dan Yergin

Unsettled

What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
Steve Koonin

Value(s)

Building a Better World for All
Mark Carney
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