ORF Global Quarterly V1, Technology Policy, Energy & Climate
ORF America
Choke Points: How Security and Politics are ...

By Parul Bakshi and Lydia Powell

Over the past decade, three structural shifts have been reordering global energy trade, encompassing not only traditional oil and gas flows but also the rapidly growing cross-border trade in electricity and clean energy goods.

Choke Points: How Security and Politics are Impacting Supply Chains
ORF Global Quarterly V1, Technology Policy, Energy & Climate
ORF America
Ten Fault Lines That Will Define the Global ...

By Piyush Verma

For the Global South, the stakes are particularly high: the energy transition could unlock industrialization, resilience, and strategic bargaining power, but it could also reproduce older patterns of dependency through new technologies, standards, minerals, and financial asymmetries.

Ten Fault Lines That Will Define the Global Energy Transition
ORF Global Quarterly V1, Technology Policy, Energy & Climate
ORF America
Building AI into the Energy Future

By Andreas Kuehn and Cauvery Ganapathy

While the integration of AI offers benefits for the optimization of energy systems through grid management, renewable energy integration, predictive maintenance, and accurate forecasting of alternative forms of energy, its energy-intensive nature could also negatively impact the countries and ecosystems seeking to adopt it.

Building AI into the Energy Future
Energy & Climate
ORF America
How the UAE’s Exit from OPEC Exposes the New ...

By Medha Prasanna

The oil age will not end because the world runs out of oil, but because oil reserves stop being worth pumping. The UAE has moved fast, not as just a knee-jerk reaction to the conflict in the region, but as a strategic divergence.

How the UAE’s Exit from OPEC Exposes the New Realities of Energy Diplomacy
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
As South America Shifts Right, Environmental ...

By Andre Nicola

Across South America, governments are increasingly framing environmental regulation as a constraint on growth, investment, and national competitiveness. South America's political direction over the next several years will be an early test of whether economic development can be reconciled with environmental stewardship throughout the region.

As South America Shifts Right, Environmental Concerns Take a Back Seat

Anneleen Roggeman

UN Adopts First Draft Convention Against Cybercrime

UN Adopts First Draft Convention Against Cybercrime

By Anneleen Roggeman

Earlier this month, member states of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime agreed to adopt the first global convention against cybercrime after three years of negotiations. The convention will be presented to the UN General Assembly in September, ratifying its legitimacy in 40 countries.

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