The Energy, Environment and Resources department, led by Bernice Lee, conducts high-level research on critical issues of energy security, environment and resource governance. 

Latest:

US Energy: the New Reality
There is undoubtedly a US energy revolution under way – but where that revolution will lead is not yet clear. This paper explains trends in the North American energy landscape, and how they are likely to evolve. Read

Combating Illegal Logging
Duncan Brack considers the compatibility of efforts by consumer countries to reduce illegal logging with World Trade Organization rules.
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The Trouble with Biofuels
Agricultural biofuel use increases the level and volatility of food prices, with detrimental impacts on the food security of low-income food-importing countries, says this new paper.
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Resource Insecurity
The outlook is one of supply disruptions, volatile prices, accelerated environmental degradation and rising political tensions over resource access, warns this new report. Read + Interactive Website

Research Areas

Energy Security 

• The Future of the Oil and Gas Industry
• GCC Energy Intensity Project
• Renewable Energy Finance Policy 
• Nuclear Energy after Fukushima
• Managing Energy: Rethinking the Fundamentals
• Conflict or Co-existence in Extractive Industries
• Fossil Fuels Expert Roundtable

Climate Security and Low Carbon Growth

• Low Carbon Zones in China
• Low Carbon Zones in Africa
• Renewable Energy Finance Policy 
• Belief, Attitude and Behaviour on Climate Change and Energy Security 

Resources, Politics and Global Trends

• Good Governance of the National Petroleum Sector 
• Governance Challenges for Emerging Oil and Gas Producers
• The Circular Economy
• Managing Resources Futures  
• Conflict or Co-existence in Extractive Industries
• Preparing for High Impact, Low-Probability Events

Forestry and Fisheries Management

• Forest Governance and Tackling Illegal Logging
  
• Preventing Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

Food Security

• Food Security
  Translating Early Warning of Food Crises into Early Action

Contact

For more information please contact Gemma Green.