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Green Hydrogen Industrial Value Chains: Geopolitical and Market Implications
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2023-02)
The global transition to a low-carbon economy and adopting the needed clean energy technologies at scale will significantly impact existing value chains and transform production-to-consumption lifecycles. Regulatory and ...
New Russian Law on Northern Sea Route Navigation: Gathering Arctic Storm or Tempest in a Teapot?
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2023-03)
Amid increasing tensions between the West and Russia, Russia’s every move, both political and legislative, is under public scrutiny. A new law regulating the navigation of foreign warships in the Northern Sea Route, whose ...
The Persistent Consequences of the Energy Transition in Appalachia’s Coal Country
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2023-03)
The persistence and intensification of earnings, employment, and opportunity gaps across place has become an increasingly salient feature of the United States economy over the past several decades.1 This economic divergence ...
The Central Arctic Ocean fisheries moratorium: A rare example of the precautionary principle in fisheries management
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023)
On 25 June 2021, a historic fisheries Agreement entered into force: The Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO). Nine countries and the European Union agreed to refrain from ...
Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project: The Promise and Peril of High-Potential Environmental Partnerships
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2023-02)
The Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project (“NKMCAP”), launched in 1997, was one of the first voluntary avoided deforestation joint implementation projects demonstrating the use of carbon sinks for climate change ...
Guns, Incels, and Algorithms: Where We Are on Managing Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2023-06)
Ten years ago, U.S. national security agencies grew concerned about a relatively new and powerful weapon used by terrorists: the World Wide Web. What had begun as an effort to connect end users from across the world to ...
The Future of Energy Value Chains in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy: An Evaluation Framework of Integration and Segmentation Scenarios
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2023-08-14)
The transition from energy systems dominated by fossil fuels1 to ones based on renewable electricity and “green” molecules will significantly impact existing value chains2 and forge new pathways, interactions, and ...
Outsiders Wanting In: Asian States and Arctic Governance
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2023-07-07)
The strategic interests of Asian countries in the Arctic continue to grow despite the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the geopolitical fallout of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. China and India have their eye on ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Carbon Dioxide Transport Costs and Network-Infrastructure Considerations for a Net-Zero United States
(HKS Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2023-07-20)
Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) is a set of technologies that capture carbon dioxide (CO₂) at point source and either store the CO₂ for permanent storage underground or utilize it in the economy such ...