Energy and Global Governance

Abstract

The goal of this chapter is to map the looming global energy crisis and to make the case for why many of the world’s energy problems would benefit from multilateral cooperation. To that end, it begins by describing the global energy outlook, long-term trends, and potential threats to core components of energy security, broadly defined. Having identified the problems, I then search for solutions. More specifically, I identify the main energy-related issues that ought to be governed internationally according to public goods theory and propose some policies that could bring us closer to a sustainable global energy regime.