ORF Global Quarterly V1, Technology Policy, Energy & Climate
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Who Will Pay for Climate Action Now?

By Gopalika Arora

The retrenchment of finance is not merely a result of a temporary slowdown in climate finance commitments by the developed countries. It may also signal a deeper restructuring of the climate finance architecture driven by changing institutional priorities within the multilateral system that was expected to anchor the transition.

Who Will Pay for Climate Action Now?
ORF Global Quarterly V1, Technology Policy, Energy & Climate
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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
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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
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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

Technology Policy

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The Latticework: Updated U.S. Partnerships for an Era of Technology

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The Latticework: Updated U.S. Partnerships for an Era of Technology

By Andreas Kuehn

With the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election taking place in less than 2 months, a recap of the Biden administration's efforts to achieve a "latticework" of international partnerships with like-minded allies is necessary as we look to the future of trade and technology cooperation.

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The Case for a Quad Technology Trade Agreement

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The Case for a Quad Technology Trade Agreement

By Satvik Pendyala

The revival of the Quad has yet to see success in international trade or more specifically rebalancing global supply chains. Could a Quad Technology Trade Agreement be the solution to the Quad's predicament while also increasing multilateral cooperation in the Indo-Pacific?

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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