Blake Clayton, CFR's fellow for energy and national security, leads a conversation on global energy resources and policy.

The Environmental Investigation Agency released this report, "Unfinished Business - The Continued Illegal Trade in Ozone-Depleting Substances and the Threat Posed to the Montreal Protocol Phase-out", in October 2001.

Net oil imports have decreased by 33 percent over the past six years; however, oil-related developments still host a number of policy problems for the United States.

Blake Clayton says Wall Street is not to blame for high gas prices.

The UN Development Programme report, Energy Subsidies in the Arab World, was released in February 2012.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published this report on global water security in February 2012.

Robert J. Samuelson asks if energy independence is possible, and what it would look like politically.

The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade was adopted on September 10, 1998 and the text was amended in 2004, 2008, and 2011.

The Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing was adopted on November 22, 2009 at the FAO meeting.

President Obama gave these remarks on oil and gas subsidies on March 29, 2012.

Heads of fifty nations are discussing how to improve safeguards for nuclear weapons and materials. CFR's Michael Levi says these summits serve as reminders of the dangers beyond the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs.

Peter Orszag looks at a dispute over water supplies in the southeastern United States to underscore the need for water policy reforms and greater infrastructure investment.

President Obama gave these remarks on energy strategy in Nevada on March 21, 2012.

Michael Spence writes that myopic U.S. energy policies highlight the need for persistence, longer-term thinking, and bipartisanship in U.S. policymaking.

Prices at the pump are emerging as a significant U.S. election issue. Five experts offer a range of policy options, from lowering regulations to encouraging less consumption.

Drawing on the lessons of the Information Technology Agreement, Matthew Slaughter calls for the elimination of international trade and investment barriers in energy industries.

The White House released this one-year progress report on the "Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future" on March 12, 2012.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum published this op-ed on energy policy on Ricochet.com on March 10, 2012.

President Obama gave these remarks at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas on March 9, 2012.

One year after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Japan is facing a dilemma of how to clean up the disaster and how to meet current and future energy needs, says expert Charles D. Ferguson, even as the global nuclear industry continues to face the accident's aftershocks.