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Internationale Spectator 63(11),
november 2009,
pp. 559-561
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Christof van Agt, joined CIEP in January 2009. From 2001 to 2007 he managed energy policy initiatives with Caspian and Central Asian States for the Office for Global Energy Dialogue of the International Energy Agency in Paris. This involved in-depth analysis of regional oil and gas market dynamics, coordination of multistakeholder dialogue and reporting to IEA and other meetings, notably on Asian Pacific and Euro Atlantic security of supply in relation to Eurasia. From 1996 to 2001 he administered technical assistance projects in Central Asia and the South Caucasus on interstate oil and gas networks for the European Commission and assisted in negotiations on the Energy Charter Treaty, Transit Protocol and Model Agreements on Cross Border Pipelines, for the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels. Christof van Agt was a manager with the International Institute for Energy Law at the University of Leiden from 1992 to 1996. There he started his international carreer coordinating various projects on energy sector reform in the Newly Independent States. He studied Slavonic Languages and Sovietology in Leiden from 1986 to 1991. More »
Van Moskou naar Kopenhagen: Russische vergezichten op klimaatverandering, Christof van Agt
Christof van Agt surveys Russia in the strategic arena's of economic growth, energy security and climate change. To fuel economic recovery and growth Russia will increase oil and gas supplies to the industrialized market economies of the Euro Atlantic in the West and the Asian Pacific growth economies in the East. Despite the post-Soviet economic collapse, Russia is still among the largest emitters of greenhouse gases, after the United States, China and the European Union. Moscow's foreign economic policies are spearheaded by natural gas, a clean burning fossil fuel pivotal to world economic transition to a less carbon intensive 'green' model. Despite the adoption of a new climate-change strategy and Russia's acknowledgement that it must play a responsible role in the run up to the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Moscow's policy position is still aloof, due to geopolitical undercurrents and Russia's particular position in debates on the nature and cost of mitigation measures between industrialized countries and the emerging economies of the developing world.