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  Copenhagen's Conundrum

  CFR's Michael Levi says the Obama administration faces hard negotiations on a climate deal at the December Copenhagen meeting without clear guidance from Congress, but notes Obama has other legislative options.

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  • An EU View on Copenhagen
  • U.S. Climate Difficulties
  • Climate Change Realism

  

  China and India Climate Policy

  CFR's Elizabeth Economy discusses the roles of China and India in international climate negotiations.

  India's Forecast | Prospects for a Deal

   

   

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  The Future of U.S. Climate Policy

  Climate expert Eileen Claussen says U.S. climate legislation might pass in 2010, but a global climate agreement is dependent on U.S. policy.

  John Kerry on Climate | Fuel Policy

   

   

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  Cap and Trade's Economic Impact

  Six experts weigh in on the consequences for the U.S. economy if Congress creates a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade system.

  Carbon Trade Debate | Coal's Future

   

   

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  Dangers of a Carbon Trade War

  Michael A. Levi argues that the inclusion of carbon tariffs in cap-and-trade legislation would be economically damaging.

  Climate Economics | Waxman-Markey

   

   

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  Expert Opinion and Analysis

  Featured Articles

  Living on Canada's Oil

  Slate

  June 19, 2009

  Michael A. Levi argues that a price on carbon would provide the United States energy security and prod the Canadian oil sands industry to...

   

   

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  Blueprint for a Sustainable Energy Partnership of the Americas

  The Centre for International Governance Innovation

  April 2009

  This report from the Center for International Governance (CIGI) identifies opportunities to lay the groundwork for the development of...

   

   

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  Op-Eds From CFR Fellows

  Department of Energy Pursuing Sound Strategy but Funding is Vulnerable

  Michael A. Levi and Adam Segal

  Nature

  October 2009

   

   

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  Nigeria Proposes Reform of Oil Industry

  John Campbell

  GlobalPost

  November 12, 2009

   

   

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  Climate Change Realism

  Richard N. Haass

  South China Morning Post

  August 20, 2009

   

   

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  Interviews

  Securing U.S. Energy Supplies

  November 18, 2009

   

   

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  Copenhagen's Conundrum

  October 5, 2009

   

   

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  India's Climate Change Forecast

  September 22, 2009

   

   

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  Decoupling China in the Climate Debate

  September 22, 2009

   

   

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  expert briefs

  Trade and Climate Change

  Michael A. Levi

   

   

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  Addressing the Crisis in America's Oceans

  Scott G. Borgerson

   

   

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  A Changed Prognosis for Climate Change Policy

  Michael A. Levi

   

   

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  CFR Backgrounders

  Energy/Environment

  The Debate over Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade

   

   

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  Economic Challenges for Climate Change Policy

   

   

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  Debating a 'Clean Coal' Future

   

   

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  Challenges to Globalizing Natural Gas

   

   

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  Turkey at an Energy Crossroads

   

   

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  Oil Market Volatility

   

   

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  Interactives

  Climate Change

  

  Nuclear Proliferation

  

  Essential Resources

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  JES: The Relationship Between Energy Infrastructure Attacks and Crude Oil Prices

   

   

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  NYT: Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation)

   

   

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  European Commission Directorate-General for Research:The world in 2025: Rising Asia and socio-ecological transition

   

   

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  CQ: Empty-Handed Before the World on Cap-and-Trade

   

   

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  Reuters: FACTBOX-Climate Negotiating Positions of Top Five Emitter

   

   

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  Newsweek: Slower Than a Melting Ice Cap:Climate-change legislation might get bogged down in the Senate.

   

   

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  Foreign Affairs Articles

  Copenhagen's Inconvenient Truth

  Michael Levi

   

   

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  The Other Climate Changers

  Jessica Seddon Wallack and Veerabhadran Ramanathan

   

   

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  The Low-Carbon Diet

  Joel Kurtzman

   

   

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  essential documents

  International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea

   

   

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  U.S.-China Clean Energy Announcements, November 2009

   

   

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  CFR Books and Reports

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  The Edge of Disaster

  Americans are in denial when it comes to facing up to how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist attack or act of God. In...

   

   

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  Thicker Than Oil

  The first full history of the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia, revealing why the alliance was formed and what we stand to lose if it...

   

   

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  The River Runs Black

  Selected by The Globalist as one of the top ten books of 2004, The River Runs Black is the most comprehensive and balanced volume to...

   

   

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  Global Energy Challenges and Priorities (Foreign Affairs Books)

   

   

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  CFR Reports

  

  Confronting Climate Change

  Task Force Report No. 61

  This report recommends an overhaul of U.S. domestic and foreign policy to confront the challenges of climate change.

   

   

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  National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency

  Task Force Report No. 58

  This report argues that the lack of sustained attention to energy issues is undercutting U.S. foreign policy and national security.

   

   

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  The Canadian Oil Sands

  Council Special Report No. 47

  Council Special Report

  The Canadian oil sands present an important challenge to policymakers: they promise energy security benefits but present climate change...

   

   

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  The National Interest and the Law of the Sea

  Council Special Report No. 46

  Council Special Report

  Seaborne commerce remains the linchpin of the global economy. And beyond trade, a host of other issues, ranging from climate change and...

   

   

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  Eurasian Energy Security

  Council Special Report No. 43

  Council Special Report

  This report looks at Russia’s rise as an energy power, analyzing its control of supplies and delivery systems and its investments in energy...

   

   

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  CFR Meetings

  Transcripts

  Countdown to Copenhagen Symposium: Session 3: U.S. Options for Copenhagen

   

   

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  Countdown to Copenhagen Symposium: Session 2: Connecting Domestic and International Action

   

   

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  Countdown to Copenhagen Symposium: Session 1: Copenhagen in a Global Context

   

   

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  CFR Experts

  energy/envrionment

  

  Michael A. Levi
  

  David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change

   

   

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  Charles D. Ferguson
  

  Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology

   

   

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  Elizabeth C. Economy
  

  C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies

   

   

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  Scott G. Borgerson
  

  Visiting Fellow for Ocean Governance

   

   

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