Steve Koonin has served as undersecretary for science at the Department of Energy during the Obama administration and was the founding director of New York University’s Center for Urban Science
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As the World Energy Conference is drawing near, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has recently released its new report. This ambitious document presents perspectives for the evolution of the world’s
On 4 December 2019, in her first Brussels press conference the newly appointed president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said she will lead a ‘geopolitical Commission’. One
Amidst the pain brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, a sliver of good news percolated earlier in May, when research from Nature Climate Change showed that CO2 emissions have fallen by
The state of panic created by the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates how vulnerable our world is and that it is perhaps time to reassess our priorities. In spite of its famous
In order to meet emissions goals set by the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, electricity must cover 60% or more of the European Union’s final energy consumption, according to
NASA announced on Wednesday that it has completed tests of a miniature nuclear reactor that could power future human settlements in outer space. Known as Kilopower, the portable, lightweight system