RESOURCESfor the FUTUREGlobal Energy Outlook 2024:Peaks or Plateaus?Daniel Raimi,Yugi Zhu,Richard G.Newell,and Brian C.PrestReport 24-06April 2024About the AuthorsDaniel Raimi is a fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF)and a lecturer at the GeraldR.Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.He works on a range ofenergy policy issues with a focus on tools to enable an equitable energy transition.Hehas published in academic journals including Science,Science Advances,EnvironmentalScience and Technology,Journal of Economic Perspectives,Review of EnvironmentalEconomics and Policy,Energy Research and Social Science,and Energy Policy,inpopular outlets including The New Republic,Newsweek,Slate,and Fortune,and quotedextensively in national media outlets such as CNN,NPR's All Things Considered,New York Times,Wall Street Joumal,and many more.He has presented his researchfor policymakers,industry,and other stakeholders around the United States andinternationally,including before the US Senate Budget Committee and the Energy andMineral Resources Subcommittee of the US House's Natural Resources Committee.In 2017,he published The Fracking Debate (Columbia University Press),a book thatcombines stories from his travels to dozens of oil-and gas-producing regions with adetailed examination of key policy issues.Yuqi Zhu joined RFF as a senior research associate in 2022 after receiving his master'sdegree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.Prior to graduate school,heworked in corporate development at Liberty Media,a media and communications holdingcompany in Denver.Richard G.Newell is the president and CEO of RFF,an independent nonprofit researchinstitution that improves environmental,energy,and natural resource decisions throughimpartial economic research and policy engagement.He has held senior govemmentappointments as the Administrator of the US Energy Information Administration and asthe Senior Economist for energy and environment on the President's Council of EconomicAdvisers.Dr.Newell was previously the Gendell Professor of Energy and EnvironmentalEconomics at Duke and Director of its Energy Initiative and is now adjunct professor.Hehas published widely on the economics of markets and policies for climate change,theclean energy transition,and technology innovation.He is a board member or advisor atthe National Academy of Sciences Climate Security Roundtable,the Euro-MediterraneanCenter on Climate Change,the National Petroleum Council,and several other institutionsand co-chaired a formative National Academies study on the social cost of greenhousegases.Newell holds a PhD from Harvard and an MPA from Princeton.Brian C.Prest is an economist and fellow at RFF specializing in the economics of climatechange,energy economics,and oil and gas supply.Prest uses economic theory andeconometrics to improve energy and environmental policies by assessing their impactson society.His recent work includes improving the scientific basis of the social costof carbon and economic modeling of various policies around oil and gas supply.Hisresearch has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature,the BrookingsPapers on Economic Activity,the Journal of the Association of Environmental andResource Economists,and the Joumal of Environmental Economics and Management.His work has also been featured in popular press outlets including the Washington Post,the Wall Street Joumal,the New York Times,Reuters,the Associated Press,and Barron's.Resources for the Future