Energy Policy

Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi will visit Tehran next week, an Iranian official said on Wednesday. “Grossi will arrive in Tehran on Monday,” Spokesman of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO), Behrouz Kamalvandi said. Kamalvandi added Grossi will meet Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and …

OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said on Monday that oil and gas were “targeted” for the first time at COP26 as having no place in the energy transition. As an outcome of COP26, oil producers will have a lot of work to do, Barkindo added.

Repeating unconstructive allegations against Iran, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency claimed that he needed to meet with senior officials to discuss a long list of issues related to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. “I have not had any contact with this government that has been there for …

Two countries, two neighbors, two of the most populated countries in the world — China and India talked of their individual approaches to climate change at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland. The event was delayed by a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It comes six years after the …

On the occasion of the International Disarmament Week, Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi said that global nuclear disarmament would be done if there was political will to do so. Iran’s biennial draft resolution entitled “Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995, 2000 and …

The European Union’s top negotiator will meet his counterpart from Tehran this week in Brussels for talks on restarting negotiations over Iran’s nuclear deal, a spokesman for the bloc said on Monday. “I can confirm that a bilateral meeting with his Iranian counterpart is planned for this week,” spokesman Peter …

Iran welcomes negotiations that have tangible, practical results, the Iranian Minister said, adding that Tehran will return to its commitments if other JCPOA members fufilll their obligations. A telephone conversation was held between the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and the UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monda night. …

The EU’s jobs and social rights commissioner has warned of rising energy poverty in Europe as prices climb. Nicolas Schmit told dpa there are millions already who suffer from energy poverty in the bloc, and said the number could keep growing. The EU Commission could help EU countries limit the …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia was not using gas supply as a weapon and was ready to help ease Europe’s energy crunch as the EU called an emergency summit to tackle skyrocketing prices. Energy demand has surged as economies have rebounded from the pandemic, driving up prices of oil, …

Fresh from crowing over Europe’s gas crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin now sees a chance to capitalize on it. Putin wants to press the European Union to rewrite some of the rules of its gas market after years of ignoring Moscow’s concerns, to tilt them away from spot-pricing toward long-term …