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Russia Needs a New Strategy for Its Energy Sector
At present, there is not much to report on energy sector reform in the Russian Federation. It would be useful...
Nigeria’s Transitional Electricity Market Needs Implementation
Nigeria’s major energy sources, for now, remain wood, coal, oil, gas, tar sands, and hydropower. In January 2015, the government...
Mexican Administration Plans to Revamp the Oil industry and Prioritize Modernizing Existing Power Plants
In 2013, through a controversial proposal Mexican Congress debated and then approved a Constitutional Reform that allowed private and foreign...
Japan is Moving Too Slowly in Efforts to Decarbonize the Energy Sector
In 2019, energy-related CO2 accounted for approximately 90% of Japan’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Under the Paris Agreement, Japan...
Italy Remains Dependent on Fossil Fuel Imports While the Use of Renewables Grows Slowly
Primary energy supply sources The primary energy supply for Italy over the time period 1990-2018 is derived from the following...
Indonesia’s Efforts at Energy Sector Do Not Go Far Enough
The most major change to Indonesia’s energy policy was Government Regulation #49 setting targets for the energy mix by 2030....
India Takes Steps to Reform its Power Sector but Still Heavily Relies on Coal
India is the world’s third-largest producer and third-largest consumer of electricity. With more than 400 million people lifted above the poverty line over the last...
Germany Puts Forward New Climate and Energy Plans that Support Decarbonization
Unlike other countries, Germany has been trying to phase out nuclear power (by 2022) since the Fukushima incident in Japan...
France Aims at Clearing its Electricity Production of Fossil Fuels
The French energy sector has since the 1970s been dominated by nuclear energy, and in the 2010s nuclear has provided...
The EU Has Adopted a New Energy Strategy
To facilitate its transition away from fossil fuels towards clean energy and to deliver on the European Union’s commitments to...
Mixed Results from China’s Energy Reform Efforts
Several policy documents laying out plans for an energy sector reform have been issued since 2014. Among them are China’s...
Canada’s Energy Sector Reform is Making Progress
The National Energy Board (Canada’s Energy Regulator) advises Canadians that we are in an energy transition period driven not only...
Brazil: One of the Least Carbon-Intensive in the World, but Still Expanding Oil and Gas Production
Brazil is the seventh biggest consumer of energy in the world and the biggest in Latin America. The country is...
Australia States Waiting for Federal Go-Ahead to Transform Their Energy Grid
Since the Paris Agreement was signed in December 2015 the Australian energy sector has been trending away from fossil fuels....
Absence of a Federal Carbon Price and Mechanism in the US
The United States does not have a federal carbon price. However, at the state and regional level, eleven states covering...
Brexit Poses a Challenge for Carbon Pricing Mechanisms
Currently, the UK partakes in the EU Emissions Trading System, an international carbon trading platform that works on a cap...
A Voluntary Carbon Market in need of Carbon Pricing Policy in Turkey
Turkey does not currently mandate a carbon pricing policy. However, projects for the Voluntary Carbon Market, established within the framework...
Spanish Carbon Pricing the Lowest in the EU
As part of the European Union, Spain has historically not had an explicit carbon tax on all products but has...
East Asia’s First Mandatory Emissions Trading System
South Korea does not have a Carbon tax, but does have a trading system. Korean Emission Trading System (KETS) has...
South Africa Launches a Carbon Tax on Energy Producers
After years of deliberation, South Africa introduced a carbon pricing system in June 2019. Climate change is one of the...