Justin Dargin
Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
November 23, 2010
Contractual and Commercial Elements of Hydrocarbon Exports-What Can Be Taken Over to a Renewable Energy Export Scheme?
Presentation
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Justin Dargin, Dubai Initiative Research Fellow, presented at a renewable energy conference in Casablanca, Morocco, and Tunis, Tunisia, November 2010.
April 16, 2010
Could CSP power the UAE?
In the News
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Dubai Initiative Fellow Justin Dargin talks to CSP Today about UAE energy policy.
November 20, 2011
"Oil majors the key to unlocking potential"
In the News
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Dubai Initiative associate Justin Dargin is quoted in The National for an article on the efforts of international companies to extract oil and gas from the Levant Basin, where hydrocarbons are trapped under the seabed at depths of more than 7,000 meters.
October 10, 2011
The EU and Shale Gas: The Way Ahead (Russian)
Media Feature
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Dubai Initiative Associate Justin Dargin participates in a press conference facilitated by the World Independent Energy Network (WIEN) in Moscow, Russia at the Russian national news agency, RIA Novosti.
October 3, 2011
"Saudi Aramco-U.S. Dow $20 billion petchem bid to spark high revenues"
In the News
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Dubai Initiative Associate Justin Dargin speaks to Al-Arabiya English about the new venture between Saudi Aramco and US Dow to build a petrochemical plant.
May, 2011
The Gulf Natural Gas Dual Pricing Regime: WTO Rules and Economic Growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Book
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Stakeholders in the international economy have long considered energy a crucial aspect of national sovereignty - a commodity inherently political in nature. Because of its contentious nature, energy and natural resources have been the source of conflicts for a millennia. With the sharp increase of the international price of oil and natural gas from 2002-2008, energy subsidization in the energy-rich exporting countries assumed center stage. A narrow focus on this new dynamic, however, obscures the basic issue that developed and developing countries tend to view energy in fundamentally contradictory ways. For developed, OECD countries energy is primarily a tool used to promote the smooth running of the global economy. This new book discusses the role and development of energy in emerging regions.
November 4, 2010
A Carbon Solution for the Gulf's Energy Deficit
Journal Article, Petroleum Economist
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
By introducing a carbon-management strategy, GCC countries could reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, and conserve their oil and gas resource for future generations.
October 14, 2010
Development of Gulf Carbon Trading
Presentation
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
A harmonized pan-Gulf carbon trading platform to make cost-efficient decisions about greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement will bring immense economic, environmental and geopolitical benefits to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which currently have some of the highest per capita carbon emission rates in the world, according to Justin Dargin, Research Fellow at the Dubai Initiative and Fulbright scholar of the Middle East. Click here to watch the video.
August, 2010
Addressing the UAE Natural Gas Crisis
Policy Brief
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
This policy brief explains the origins of the UAE energy crisis, forecasts developments for 2010-2020, and posits recommendations for overall sector rationalization. If Emirati authorities take a proactive stance and address the structural elements of the natural gas shortage, the more extreme elements of the crisis would be mitigated without lasting damage to Emirati economic growth. As the UAE has prodigious natural gas reserves, slight modification of the natural gas pricing and the power sector tariff structures would be able to resolve the most serious issues facing the UAE in its drive towards industrialization and diversification.
February 25, 2009
Energy as a Compounding Agent: InterIntel and the Democratization of Sustainability
Op-Ed, Nuova Energia
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative and Dan Schnitzer
From the introduction: "The old, but well known, proverb states, Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish, and you feedhim for life. This sums up in its entirety the fact that despite the best efforts of the World’s numerous aid agencies and NGOs, and despite the billions of aid dollars spent on the world’s poorest communities, poverty has seemingly become more entrenched. However, as shall be discussed subsequently, poverty can be broken, but only if the poor are viewed as creators of their own destinies, and given the tools to attack the problems that beset them."
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