Should a repressive petrostate get to host UN climate talks?
The UAE Plans for a Fossil Fuel Friendly COP28
read more
gas
Protests at the Pump
Even small increases in the price of gas can generate protests, like in Kazakhstan. But actually, we’re not paying anywhere near enough at the pump.
The Geopolitics of Cheap Oil
Economists said the market would save the planet. It didn’t.
The Big Chill: Tensions in the Arctic
As the climate warms and the ice melts, the Arctic could become the next great theater of global cooperation—or a battlefield.
Ukrainian Unity Depends On…Bulgaria?!
Russia’s energy-heavy economy could suffer from Bulgaria’s decision to stop construction of the South Stream pipeline.
Occupy Nigeria
On January 1, 2012, Nigeria’s fuel regulator announced that the government was immediately discontinuing its fuel subsidy to help cut government spending, causing an overnight spike in fuel prices from $1.70 to $3.50 per gallon. Such a hike would be outrageous even for Americans. But for a drastically poorer country like Nigeria—where 70 percent of the population of 160 million lives below the poverty line—it was insufferable. Cheap fuel is one of the few benefits Nigerians enjoy as citizens of Africa’s largest (and the world’s 14th-largest) oil producer.