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Experts React: Progress and Setbacks at COP30

COP30 showcased noteworthy progress while exposing persistent roadblocks in global climate diplomacy. CSIS experts react to the conference’s most significant outcomes and their implications for the future of climate, energy, health, development, and the COP process at large.

Commentary by Leslie Abrahams, Jane Nakano, Noam Unger, J. Stephen Morrison, Katherine E. Bliss, Mathias Zacarias, Ray Cai, and Alexis Burns — November 25, 2025

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CSIS Trustee John Hess on the Energy Transition

CSIS Trustee John Hess sat down to discuss obstacles to the energy transition and how policymakers can overcome them.

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Joseph Majkut

Director, Energy Security and Climate Change Program
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Leslie Abrahams

Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Energy Security and Climate Change Program
Clayton Seigle

Clayton Seigle

Senior Fellow and James R. Schlesinger Chair in Energy and Geopolitics, Energy Security and Climate Change Program
Jane Nakano

Jane Nakano

Senior Fellow, Energy Security and Climate Change Program
Ilaria Mazzocco

Ilaria Mazzocco

Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics
Will Todman

Will Todman

Chief of Staff, Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department; and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program
Yasir Atalan

Yasir Atalan

Deputy Director and Data Fellow, Futures Lab, Defense and Security Department

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Realizing the Potential of U.S. Unconventional Natural Gas

The ability to access and economically develop vast amounts of America’s unconventional natural gas resources, especially large shale gas formations, has altered our national view on energy and has subsequently changed the discourse at the federal, state, and local levels.

Report by Sarah Ladislaw, David Pumphrey, Frank A. Verrastro, Lisa A. Hyland and Molly Walton, and Lisa A. Hyland, and Molly A. Walton — April 30, 2013

The U.S.-Canada Energy Relationship

The CSIS Energy and National Security Program is pleased to hosted Joe Oliver, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, on April 24th, 2013 at 9:30 am.

Event — April 24, 2013

Venezuela Post-Election: Can Maduro Govern?

Surprising many analysts and pollsters, Henrique Capriles of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) secured over 49 percent of the vote compared to Nicolas Maduro’s 50.6 percent. Maduro’s narrow victory portends trouble in consolidating his power as Venezuela's president and holding together the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).

Critical Questions by Carl Meacham — April 16, 2013

Sustainable Energy in Southeast Asia

The CSIS Indonesia Initiative seeks to enhance understanding of Indonesia and create a forum for cultivating discussion of important policy questions.

Event — April 11, 2013

The Americas 2013: What to Expect

 The CSIS Americas Program is pleased to welcome five distinguished journalists from some of the leading Latin American and Spanish newspapers. 

Event — April 8, 2013