Meghan L. O'Sullivan, Columnist

After Oil: Throwing Money at Green Energy Isn’t Enough

Lots of stimulus funds are being directed to renewable technologies, but government policies will be more important.

September 17, 2020 at 10:00 AM UTC

Meghan L. O’Sullivan is a professor of international affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School and the North American chair of the Trilateral Commission, she served on the National Security Council from 2004 to 2007.

Good money after bad.
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This is the last of three columns on the impact of Covid-19 on the energy transition. You can read the first and second parts here and here.

The geopolitical and geo-economic forces wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, as examined previously in this series, are likely to slow the transition to a more sustainable global energy mix. Fortunately, the pandemic has also resulted in governments gaining vastly greater influence over whether this shift stalls or accelerates.