In an important new commentary, CGEP’s @mbowen92 and @PDabbar discuss Russia’s role in the Western nuclear power supply chain as well as policy options to reduce—or end—that involvement.👇🧵 1/8 energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/comme… Russia is a major supplier of several services involved with the manufacturing of nuclear fuel.

While it isn't one of the leading miners of raw uranium, Russia accounted for nearly 40% of global conversion services in 2020 & ~46% share of global enrichment capacity in 2018. 2/8

In January, @Microsoft announced that it paid to remove 1.3 million tons of CO2— the largest corporate procurement of carbon removal to date.

A new article in @Nature looks at what lessons we can learn as other companies look to offset CO2 emissions: go.nature.com/3CQZoDN 🧵👇 How much is 1.3 million tons of CO2? According to the @EPA, it equals the greenhouse gas emissions from 256,483 cars driven in a single year (or the CO2 removal of 33 million trees).

It’s also about 11% of the annual emissions from Microsoft’s value chain.

Last September, Xi Jinping announced that China aims to peak its carbon emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.

A new CGEP report looks at what this means for China’s national oil companies (NOCs): bit.ly/3zYmBCg The main findings are three-fold:

First, ensuring oil and natural gas supplies for China—which imports more than 70% of its oil and more than 40% of its natural gas—remains job number one for the NOCs.

Today, @ColumbiaUEnergy releases Energizing America w/@ITIFdc, a roadmap to kickstart a U.S. federal clean energy innovation policy agenda, increase federal funding for energy RD&D, decarbonize the global economy and address #climatechange: bit.ly/energizingamer…. In Energizing America, authors @vsiv @colin_cunliff @ProfDavidHart @CarbonWrangler & David Sandalow offer a detailed roadmap to dramatically increase U.S. federal funding for energy RD&D across ten Technology Pillars, elevating energy innovation as a core national priority