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Information Note on the Green Climate Fund Business Model Framework
Published: 7th May 2013
By: Benito Müller
The Governing Instrument of the Green Climate Fund stipulates: The Board will consider additional modalities that further enhance direct access, including through funding entities with a view to enhancing country ownership of projects and programmes. Unfortunately, it does not elaborate further either on the concept of ‘enhanced direct access’ nor on the notion of a [...]
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NIOC and the State – Commercialization, Contestation and Consolidation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Published: 7th May 2013
By: William Yong
While Iran’s oil industry has long been a subject of great interest for academics, industry analysts and the news media surprisingly little attention has been paid to the institutional apparatus of the Iranian hydrocarbon sector and its embeddedness in networks of political power. The institutional embodiment of Iran’s oil industry is the nominally state-owned National [...]
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Issue 91, February 2013
Published: 3rd May 2013
By: OIES
Developments in US Energy
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Current German Energy Policy – the “Energiewende”: A UK and climate change perspective
Published: 23rd April 2013
By: John Rhys
This comment considers German energy policy, as set out in the Energiewende, as seen from the perspective of attempts to reduce CO2 emissions, and the ambitions of the EU to be considered global leaders on this issue. It argues that the nuclear moratorium is irrational and will significantly increase damaging emissions; and that policies of [...]
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The EU Third Package for Gas and the Gas Target Model: major contentious issues inside and outside the EU
Published: 16th April 2013
By: Katja Yafimava
The general provisions introduced by the Third Package (which became law in March 2011) and the detailed provisions to be outlined in the pan-European network codes for cross-border issues (currently under development) are set to fundamentally change the architecture of the EU gas market heralding a transition to a new model. Ensuring that the transition [...]
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UK Electricity Market Reform and the EU
Published: 28th March 2013
By: Malcolm Keay
The government’s Electricity Market Reform proposals, currently going through the House of Commons, are aimed at reforming the UK electricity market in order to meet UK carbon targets. But of course we are now operating in a wider European context where, with UK backing, the Commission has been promoting a single European electricity market. Is [...]
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East Africa Gas – The Potential for Export
Published: 14th March 2013
By: David Ledesma
In the world of upstream oil and gas, the emergence of a major new prospective area always creates a frisson of excitement. Once the discoveries are assessed and we move past the initial question of how the potential resource base was previously overlooked, attention focuses on the likely ultimate scale of the resource, the cost [...]
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Energy Sustainability in the Gulf States – The Why and the How
Published: 14th March 2013
By: Laura El-Katiri
For many decades, the Gulf states’ significant oil reserves have rendered the region among the most important energy suppliers in the world, and there is similar potential for the region’s natural gas reserves. However, the Gulf states’ rapidly rising regional consumption has begun to play a critical role in the region’s future export prospects, including [...]
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