Aaron Cosbey

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Aaron Cosbey is a senior development economist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition. He has 30 years of experience in sustainable development policy, with a focus on international trade.

Aaron Cosbey

Apr 19 2022

Stepping on the gas: the Ukraine war reshapes climate and energy policy

Illuminem Voices

Energy · Environmental Sustainability

The Ukraine war vividly underscores the vulnerability of fossil fuel importers to geopolitical machinations. In the long run, due to viable alternatives to fossil fuels and the imperatives of climate change, the use of oil and gas as strategic leverage is demonstrably self-defeating.