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Energy Working Group: Shale Gas in China: Hype and Reality
May 9, 2012
In recent years, natural gas prices in the United States have gone from historic highs of over $12 per mmBtu in the summer of 2008, to under $2.50/mmBtu in 2012.
Energy Working Group: Modeling the World Steam Coal Market: To What Extent Does China Exercise Monopsony Power?
February 16, 2011
This EWG talk will highlight PESD's first analysis using our new coal model by demonstrating how it can be used to analyze the effects of China's import behavior on world thermal coal consumption....
Climate Policy Instruments in the Real World
September 7, 2010
The Program on Energy and Sustainable Development in collaboration with Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School hosted a special conference on Climate Policy...
The China Factor: Short and Long-term Drivers of Chinese Coal Imports
June 29, 2010
In 2009 China, the world's largest coal producer, in seemingly a counterintuitive shift, became the world's largest coal importer at the same time. The resulting realignment of the global coal...
Energy Working Group Talk: Energy Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia
April 20, 2010
Associate Professor Jae-Seung Lee from Korea University, Division of International Studies will be leading the seminar on energy security and cooperation in Northeast Asia (including East Asia).
2010 MIIS International Trade and Investment Conference: Opportunities and Strategies in Emerging Economies
March 12, 2010
PESD researcher Richard K. Morse to speak on the "Carbon Markets: Developing Countries & the Next Clean Development Mechanism" panel.
Using Economics to Confront Climate Change
October 30, 2009
PESD Director Frank Wolak will be among the speakers participating in SIEPR's Policy Forum - "Using Economics to Confront Climate Change." Frank will be moderating a discussion of difficult...
SLAC Colloquium: Reconciling the Rapid Growth of Coal and CO2 Emissions in Global Energy Markets
March 23, 2009
PESD research associate Richard K. Morse will present "Reconciling the Rapid Growth of Coal and CO2 Emissions in Global Energy Markets."
Natural Gas: LNG Market in the Atlantic Basin
July 30, 2006
The seminar is expected to provide a foundation for a new study examining the role of LNG imports for Brazilian natural gas markets centered at the Instituto Economia (IE) at the Federal University...
Geopolitics of Gas Capstone Conference
May 26, 2004
The conference seeks to take a fresh look at the geopolitical consequences of a major shift to natural gas in the coming decades; indeed by most estimates global consumption of gas will double by...
Special Seminar on the Geopolitics of Natural Gas
May 10, 2004
World natural gas consumption is projected to more than double by 2030 -- surpassing coal as the world's #2 energy resource.
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