Introduction
The postwar, U.S.-dominated geopolitical order shaped by oil is yielding to a new system built on carbon-free renewable energy and electric vehicles. In the emerging international scramble for so-called green energy, China is leading, with its control over many supplies of minerals essential for batteries, wind turbines and other technologies. China is also key to addressing climate change because its coal-powered economy creates more planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions than any other country. To counter China, the United States is rallying allies and friendly mineral-rich countries to forge alternative supply chains that can enable green energy industries to scale up. And, faced with Russian aggression in Ukraine, Europe is shedding energy ties to Moscow and expanding its domestic wind and solar power sources. Clean hydrogen may also create new energy powers — from Australia to Chile and Africa — as industrial demand for fossil-free energy surges. Competition extends into the Arctic, where retreating ice is spurring the hunt for green energy minerals. While the transition will take decades, the rules of the game are being set now — in Beijing and Washington.
The oil-dominated geopolitical order is changing as countries embrace carbon-free energy sources to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. That transition has produced tensions, in part due to the need for rare earth minerals used in clean energy technologies, such as these wind turbines and solar panels near Klettwitz, Germany. (Getty Images/Sean Gallup)
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Energy Warfare |
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Nov. 18, 2022 |
Geopolitics of Green Energy |
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Clean Energy Transition |
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Energy Policy |
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Aug. 02, 2017 |
Energy Policy |
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Nov. 11, 2016 |
Protecting the Power Grid |
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Apr. 29, 2016 |
Solar Energy Controversies |
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Jun. 05, 2015 |
Energy |
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Dec. 16, 2011 |
Fracking Controversy |
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May 20, 2011 |
Energy Policy |
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Apr. 01, 2011 |
Wind Power |
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Jul. 24, 2009 |
Energy and Climate |
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May 19, 2006 |
Energy Efficiency |
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Feb. 01, 2002 |
Energy Security |
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Energy Policy |
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Energy and the Environment |
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The Politics of Energy |
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Oct. 12, 1990 |
Energy Policy: Options for the 1990s |
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Energy Policy: The New Administration |
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May 25, 1979 |
Public Confidence and Energy |
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Continental Energy Sharing |
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