Increased and effective Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure have prevented Russia from effectively exploiting higher oil prices.
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Nigeria’s energy insecurity has become one of its most serious development and security challenges.
If the Nord Stream attacks were an act of sabotage, this shows how energy infrastructure can be strategically targeted as an act of ‘hybrid warfare’.
South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan for Electricity reflects a global trend away from nuclear energy. But the government’s actions suggest otherwise.
Smaller projects are better for delivering broad, long-term value to communities across the country, reducing inequality and cutting emissions, as well as quickly providing jobs and economic stimulus.
After the ‘world’s biggest work-from-home experiment’, many people (and their employers) might decide they needn’t commute every day. If even a fraction do that, infrastructure needs will change.
In 2004 an underwater avalanche destroyed an oil platform off Louisiana, causing a 14-year spill. An expert on oil and gas seeps in the Gulf of Mexico warns that this could happen in other places.
Its plan to stop lending money for oil and gas projects embraces the spirit of the Paris agreement at a time when the U.S. is going in a different direction.
If infrastructure is to meet the needs and challenges of an uncertain future, we need to move beyond the AAA ratings mindset and aim for net-positive social and ecological outcomes as well.
Long-term privatisation contracts, most of them closed to scrutiny, lock urban infrastructure into 20th-century formats unsuited for a climate-threatened planet.
Critical infrastructure is our means of survival as an urban species. So, we must identify what is critical, for whom and how it might fail us.
Dealing with climate change will require countries to ‘decarbonize’ their energy infrastructure. The history of infrastructure suggests this could happen quickly once the transition starts.
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William J. Perry Fellow in International Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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Cynthia Mitchell is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Sustainability, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland
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Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies, Elon University
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Professor Sustainability and Urban Governance, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Chair, Smart Cities Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
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Honorary Director, Centre for Infrastructure Research, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Head of Geopolitics - Leidra, Researcher, RMIT University
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Management, Deakin University
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Academic Director Living Lab Northern Rivers, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor in Law and Security, University of Canberra; Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University