Samuel Furfari

Professor in Energy Geopolitics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, PhD President of the European Society of Engineers and Industrialists He recently published the French book Ecologisme, Assaut contre la société occidentale (Ecologism, assault on western society). Last year he also published the book The Hydrogen Illusion. Furfari is signee of the CLINTEL World Climate Declaration.

America’s Irreversible Goodbye to Climate Governance

By /

On January 7, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from 66 international organizations deemed “redundant, poorly managed, unnecessary, costly, ineffective,” or instruments of America’s adversaries. Among them are various United Nations agencies and, most significantly, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the backbone of global climate governance.  During his first term, President Trump removed the U.S. from the Paris […]

America’s Irreversible Goodbye to Climate Governance Learn More »

Europe’s Outrage Over Maduro Arrest Reflects Poor Understanding of Oil Industry

By /

The dramatic arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro sent shock waves around the world. Yet nowhere was the reaction more negative – and more baffling – than in the European Union, where outrage swept through public discourse, a stark contrast to the generally positive reaction in the U.S. and elsewhere.  Much of this anger was aimed at Donald Trump

Europe’s Outrage Over Maduro Arrest Reflects Poor Understanding of Oil Industry Learn More »

The Many Hopeless European Climate Change Laws

By /

Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT University, one of the world’s leading experts on atmospheric physics, had these extraordinary words: ‘Carbon control is a bureaucratic dream. If you control carbon, you control life’. The European Commission (EC), in its desire to control CO2 emissions, is going to – although it is not intended to – control the daily lives of European

The Many Hopeless European Climate Change Laws Learn More »