Mohamed ElBaradei
Nuclear Power in the Balance
VIENNA – I am often asked if nuclear power is safe. My standard answer is: “Yes – as safe as air travel.” Plane crashes do occur, but highly…
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Nina L. Khrushcheva
KGB Petroleum
MOSCOW – There is one key thing to keep in mind when talking about Russia: despite what you see on the surface, it never really changes. Bui…
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Connie Hedegaard
A New Climate Deal is Achievable
COPENHAGEN – Look at the leaders of our time. That these are tough times can be read in the lines of their faces, and in their stern looks. …
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Richard Robb
Financing Renewable Energy
NEW YORK – There is plenty of money in the private sector to build up the world’s renewable infrastructure as long as the numbers add up, an…
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Peter Hoffmann
The Great Hydrogen Hope
RHINECLIFF, NEW YORK – In Jules Verne’s novel The Mysterious Island , published in 1874, Cyrus Harding, the book’s engineer/hero, declares …
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Michael Spence
Testing the Limits of Fossil Fuels
MILAN – Most people recognize that human activity, primarily the use of fossil fuels, is contributing mightily to an increasing level of gre…
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James Woolsey
Securing the Future of Energy
PALO ALTO – Today’s huge global energy problems in no small measure reflect the essentially nineteenth-century business plans that three of …
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Stuart Eizenstat
Unifying the West on Climate Change
WASHINGTON, DC – President Barack Obama has called climate change one of the most important challenges of our time, and is pressing forward …
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Bjørn Lomborg
The Climate Change Debate’s Willpower Fallacy
COPENHAGEN – There is a dangerous misperception that willpower and political agreement are the only missing ingredients needed to combat glo…
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Kishore Mahbubani
Asia’s Energy Future
SINGAPORE – Asia’s rise is unstoppable. What is stoppable is the steep rise in Asia’s reliance on fossil fuels. Indeed, the decisions to be …
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