Shale gasLow-carbon energyEU energy policy
  • Can shale gas transform Europe's energy landscape?
    Policy brief by David Buchan, 10 July 2013
    Can shale gas transform Europe's energy landscape?
  • How to create a single European electricity market - and subsidise renewables
    Policy brief by David Buchan, 26 April 2012
    Low-carbon energy
  • Launch of 'Green, safe, cheap: Where next for EU energy policy’
    Event, 27 October 2011, London
    Launch of 'Green, safe, cheap' with Charles Hendry MP
  • Pipe down, price up
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    The Guardian, 06 January 2009

    The Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute is turning from a bilateral spat into a regional crisis. EU countries that share a border with Ukraine have reported dramatic drops in the volume of gas deliveries.
  • Review: Pipelines, politics, and power: The future of EU-Russia energy relations
    Opinion piece by Philip Gordon
    International Affairs, 02 January 2009

    As energy prices rose dramatically during the early years of this decade, Europeans began to realize the degree to which their dependence on Russia for energy supplies complicated an already difficult relationship.
  • Pipelines, politics and power: The future of EU-Russia energy relations
    Report by Pavel Baev, Vaclav Bartuska, Christian Cleutinx, Clifford Gaddy, Roland Götz, Daniel Gros, Barry Ickes, Andrey Konoplyanik, Konstantin Kosachev, Tatiana Mitrova, Andris Piebalgs, Jeffery Piper, Pawel Swieboda, Dmitri Trenin, Sergey Yastrzhembsky , 01 October 2008

    Does the Kremlin use energy as a political weapon? Why is Russia’s oil and gas output stagnating? Can and should the EU try to reduce its dependence on Russian hydrocarbons? Are the EU and Russia engaged in a pipeline war? What does energy solidarity mean? What rules should govern EU-Russia energy relations?

  • The bear's Achilles heel
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 15 August 2008

    For many American commentators, plucky little Georgia has been the victim of Russian imperialism. The Guardian's Seumas Milne takes an simplistic view: Russia is blameless for a war caused by US "expansion".
  • Europe can afford to curb greenhouse gases
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 02 June 2008

    In March 2007 the EU pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 per cent by 2020, from 1990 levels. But as EU governments and the Commission work on the policies needed to achieve this goal, opposition is mounting, particularly towards the Commission’s proposals for reforming the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS).

  • Russia-China: Axis of Convenience
    Opinion piece by Bobo Lo
    Open democracy, 20 May 2008

    The China threat looms large in the Russian imagination, but is not justified by the facts suggests Bobo Lo, writing for openDemocracy's new collaboration on Russia and the world.
  • Global Perspectives 2008
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    International Affairs Forum, 01 January 2008

    Insisting that the EU must unblock accession talks with Ankara in the energy area if it is serious about diversifying its supply, the December 2007 paper by Katinka Barysch from the Centre for European Reform (CER) claims that Turkey can make a "substantial contribution" to Europe's energy security.
  • Turkey's role in European energy security
    Essay by Katinka Barysch, 12 December 2007

    Turkey – located between big energy producers and the EU market – is crucial for Europe’s energy security. However, plans for the Nabucco pipeline as an alternative to Russian gas supplies are in trouble.