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Cuéllar looks back on leading FSI
December 2014
For 14 years, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar has been a tireless Stanford professor who has strengthened the fabric of university’s interdisciplinary nature.
PESD Research Informs 2011 World Energy Outlook
November 2011
Several PESD Working Papers helped inform the analysis of the newly released 2011 World Energy Outlook.
- The Future of South African Coal: Market, Investment, and Policy Challenges
- Industrial Organization of the Chinese Coal Industry
- Remaking the World's Largest Coal Market: The Quest to Develop Large Coal-Power Bases in China
- The World's Greatest Coal Arbitrage: China's Coal Import Behavior and Implications for the Global Coal Market
PESD Working Paper #101 on Australia's black coal industry featured in Platts Coal Trader International
April 2011
Platts' most recent issue of Coal Trader International features PESD Working Paper #101 by Bart Lucarelli.
Wolak's climate op-ed featured in the UK Guardian
February 2011
PESD Director Frank Wolak explain how the unknown price tag of carbon and uncertainty of US National climate policy are impeding on investments for oil substitutes.
Wolak presented at the Guanghua Leadership Institute's City Leader Program
September 2010
PESD Director Frank Wolak was invited to present at the Guanghua Leadership Institute's City Leader Program held at Stanford.
PESD releases new working paper on the real drivers of carbon capture and storage in China and implications for climate policy
October 2009
PESD researchers Richard Morse, Gang He, and Varun Rai offer a cutting-edge analysis of China's carbon capture and sequestration efforts, which are now widely viewed as critical for stabilization...
Burton Richter in Roll Call: US climate bill needs more support for energy R&D
August 2009
PESD affiliated faculty Burton Richter argues in Roll Call that the climate bill passed by the US House of Representatives misses the mark on several fronts, especially in its inadequate funding...
PESD releases new working paper on a climate change policy framework for India
March 2009
India has been famous for arguing that it (and the rest of the developing world) should incur no expense in controlling emissions that cause climate change.
The big winner is coal
January 2009
Coal is looking like the energy winner in the current economic crisis, David Victor and Varun Rai say in Newsweek.
David Victor in Newsweek: The new greens like it big
December 2008
David G. Victor comments on the current flattening of investment in green technology due to market forces.
PESD carbon storage project database update released
November 2008
PESD researchers Varun Rai, Ngai-Chi Chung, Mark Thurber, and David Victor have released an updated version of the PESD Carbon Storage Project Database.
Why the peak oil debate misses the point in an NOC-dominated world
September 2008
As oil prices surge through $140/barrel at the time of writing, surely one can at least count on the invisible hand of the market to drive further exploration and production and ultimately bring...
Newsweek: Victor looks at problems with Mexico's national oil company, effect on oil markets
April 2008
What to do about Mexico's oil company, Pemex, may seem like a parochial issue of interest only to Mexicans and a few oil industry executives.
PESD releases case study of Pemex, Mexico's national oil company
April 2008
PESD has just released an 87-page case study of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Mexico's national oil company.
The Energy Trap: Why the United States is doomed to be an energy outlaw
March 2008
Democrats voting in Ohio and Texas may well decide the shape of the U.S. presidential election. Regardless of who they choose to run against Sen.
Asia's Achilles Heel
February 2008
As China and India lose control of their economies, they are failing to provide reliable power to their citizens. How will they manage to curb carbon emissions?
Gazprom case study released
January 2008
Russia's Gazprom is among the largest companies in the world, and by far the world's largest producer of natural gas, with close to a 20% share.
Wired Magazine interviews Jeremy Carl on Clean Coal
November 2007
Clean coal is a possible answer for China and India, says Jeremy Carl, a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford and a fellow at the Program...
Reducing Greenhouse Gases: Improving the Clean Development Mechanism
August 2007
The clean development mechanism (CDM) is a means for industrial nations, known as Annex 1 countries, to meet their greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets by taking credit for reductions from...
Cambridge University Press prints "Political Economy of Power Sector Reform"
March 2007
The collaborative book by experts in the political economy of energy, edited to include a provocative introduction and conclusion by David Victor and Tom Heller, looks in depth at five cases of...
Victor, Cullenward discuss climate change in Boston Review
February 2007
In Boston Review's January/February 2007 issue, PESD Director David Victor and PESD researcher Danny Cullenward discuss why pursuing technologies that burn coal more cleanly is the "only practical...
A crude awakening: Five FSI scholars talk to Stanford magazine about energy security
December 2006
Michael May, Michael McFaul, Scott Sagan, David Victor, and John Weyant talk to Stanford magazine for the November/December cover story on energy security.
NYU Journal of International Law & Politics publishes PESD study results
December 2006
Erik Woodhouse publishes the final report from PESD's multi-year study on privately owned power plants in emerging markets.