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Robin Mills

Robin Mills

CEO

Qamar Energy

Robin Mills is CEO of Qamar Energy and a non-resident Fellow of the Centre on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. Author of two books on the strategic future of energy, he has broad and deep commercial, economic and technical experience in the energy and upstream oil and gas business. Robin is an expert in energy strategy and risk analysis with strong knowledge about the Middle East, Russia and the North Sea.

US energy and climate legacy: the crucial impact of long-term policies

In his latest monthly column for Energy Connects, Robin Mills dives deep into President Biden's potential legacy as a transformative energy President, which hinges on the long-term impact of his clean energy initiatives.

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Thought Leadership

Climate on the Caspian: a COP of ambition and action in Baku

The sites of the latest three UN climate talks – COP27, COP28 and COP29 – outline a triangle about 2,000 kilometres long on each side, that contains almost half the world’s oil and gas reserves. Sharm El Sheikh in 2022, Dubai in 2023, and Baku in Azerbaijan, coming up this November, have nevertheless delivered or aim to deliver serious and real progress on climate, not the fossil fuel stitch-up many campaigners feared. As climate talks on the Caspian concludes this trio, what can we look forward to?

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Thought Leadership

US hurricane season: turbulence ahead for the energy industry?

As an intense, above-average hurricane season approaches this year, Robin M. Mills analyses the possible scenarios and the potential impact on the oil and gas infrastructure along the US Gulf coast, and on the international energy industry, in his exclusive monthly column

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Thought Leadership

EVs vs ICE: a letter from history and the future of mobility

In his exclusive monthly column for Energy Connects, Robin Mills weighs in on the doubts and prospects for electric vehicles (EVs) to surpass petrol and diesel cars in the near future, and demonstrates why the destination is clear - even if, like a bad Google Maps direction, the journey takes longer than advertised.

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Thought Leadership

Energy transitions and winning the battle for low-carbon energy systems

Low-carbon energy is winning the race in some sectors on its own merits – in solar and wind power, electric cars and increasingly batteries and heat pumps. There is plenty of work to be done in areas such as heavy industry, shipping and air travel. But here too, good solutions are starting to emerge. Governments should make inefficient and carbon-intensive consumer goods as unfashionable as smoking.

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Thought Leadership

2023 set to be an important year for the energy transition

In the latest episode of Energy Connects Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Julian Walker hosts Robin Mills, CEO of Qamar Energy, to talk about the energy transition and why 2023 will be such an important year with the UAE hosting COP28 later in the year

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Podcast

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