“Meghan O’Sullivan, director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Geopolitics of Energy project, said that although the world is embracing renewable energy sources, ‘even the most climate-friendly energy scenarios in the future all involve a reasonably substantial amount of oil and gas usage over time.’
“A few ‘petrostates’ will continue to wield influence—in some cases even more influence because there will be a smaller number of them, said O’Sullivan, a former US deputy national security advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan…”