RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Anne Power and Monika Zulauf, September 2011, What Works Collaborative
As the United States searches for cost-effective ways to develop clean energy, Anne Power and Monika Zulauf provide lessons from Germany's energy saving program. Local and national actions that set a framework for energy usage, and provide incentives for decreasing emissions, would help the United States follow Germany’s lead in meeting carbon reduction targets and cultivating a growing sector of clean energy jobs. Read More
BOOK
William Antholis and Strobe Talbott, July 01, 2011
Fast Forward is equal parts science primer, history lesson, policy prescription, and ethical treatise. This pithy and compelling book makes clear what we know and don’t know about global warming; why the threat demands prudent and urgent action; why the transition to a low-carbon economy will be the most difficult political and economic transaction in history; and how it requires nothing less than a revolution in our sense of civic responsibility. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Christopher P. Borick, Erick Lachapelle and Barry Rabe, April 2011, The Brookings Institution
Barry Rabe, Christopher Borick, and Erick Lachapelle summarize survey results in the United States and Canada that examine public perceptions on the existence of climate change and potential policy approaches to global warming. The authors provide insight into the evolution of American public opinion regarding climate matters while producing direct comparisons between the views of Americans and Canadians on climate change and its mitigation. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
Washington, DC
A global agreement on binding emissions reductions now seems unlikely, but progress on climate change can still be made through discrete initiatives by countries, sub-national governments, international organizations, businesses, and civil society. On January 19, the Managing Global Insecurity Project hosted members of the Working Group on Global Climate Governance as they presented the results of their work and discussed the path forward on climate change. Read More
VIDEO
Katherine Sierra, November 22, 2010
The United Nations conference on climate change, COP16, is now in Cancún, where global leaders hope to move forward on some sort of accord. Katherine Sierra previews COP16 and offers what will, and will not, likely result from the talks.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Katherine Sierra, November 03, 2010, The Brookings Institution
Katherine Sierra argues that with the political power shift in Washington brought on by the 2010 midterm elections, U.S. leadership is even more critical to solving the global climate crisis and tackling clean energy issues. She notes that multiple "bottom up" solutions around the country and world can only work if America regains the leadership. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Allison Anderson, September 2010, The Brookings Institution
Climate change poses one of the most serious challenges to reducing global poverty and requires the acquisition of new knowledge and the development of new skills to reduce vulnerabilities and manage climate change risks. Allison Anderson says that education offers a clear opportunity to help combat climate change, but has not been adequately used. She discusses how leveraging education for climate change action is indeed possible through existing international agreements and relevant agendas. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William J. Antholis, September 08, 2010, UNLV Clean Energy Forum
In a speech at the UNLV Clean Energy Forum, Bill Antholis discusses three guideposts – ethical, political and heuristic – that history provides for thinking about where the United States currently stands in seizing control of its energy future. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Leigh Raymond, July 2010, The Brookings Institution
Perhaps no element of recent cap-and-trade proposals has been as controversial as provisions for offset credits, writes Purdue University professor Leigh Raymond. Moreover, at the heart of nearly all offset programs is the requirement of “additionality.” Raymond argues that offset policy designers should consider going “beyond additionality” to focus on other factors more important to the creation of fair, practical and environmentally effective offset credits. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Puentes, July 01, 2010, The Avenue, The New Republic
Brookings’ comprehensive State of Metropolitan America report focuses on the demographic and social trends shaping the nation today. Robert Puentes uses this report, along with data from the U.S. Census, to analyze changes in commuting patterns across metro areas. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William J. Antholis and Strobe Talbott, June 30, 2010, POLITICO
While President Barack Obama has called for a comprehensive energy and climate bill, many in Congress are pushing an energy-only bill that falls short of transforming our energy future, argue William Antholis and Strobe Talbott. They say that now is the time to begin a decade-long effort to end our addiction to fossil fuels and fight global warming. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William J. Antholis and Strobe Talbott, June 07, 2010, TIME
Washington is abuzz with the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and new energy and climate change policies. But in addition to the political stakes for both liberals and conservatives, write Strobe Talbott and William Antholis, are the existential ones. An essay excerpted from their new book, Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming, warns that today’s society could be the last that has a chance to slow or reverse the dangerous legacy we might leave. Read More
BOOK
William Antholis and Strobe Talbott, May 15, 2010
Fast Forward is equal parts science primer, history lesson, policy prescription, and ethical treatise. This pithy and compelling book makes clear what we know and don’t know about global warming; why the threat demands prudent and urgent action; why the transition to a low-carbon economy will be the most difficult political and economic transaction in history; and how it requires nothing less than a revolution in our sense of civic responsibility. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Charles K. Ebinger and Govinda Avasarala, April 22, 2010, The Brookings Institution
On Earth Day’s 40th anniversary, Charles Ebinger and Govinda Avasarala evaluate the current state of environmental policy, outlining major obstacles within current global regulatory framework, and offering a set of solutions focused on smaller negotiations, increased economic understanding and the use of "bridge technologies." Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kelly Sims Gallagher, December 2009, The Brookings Institution
To reduce the threat of global warming, both China and the United States are developing new technologies aimed at decreasing greenhouse-gas emissions. According to Kelly Sims Gallagher, carbon pollution from dirty coal presents an enormous challenge for both countries, but through strategic collaboration on the development of carbon capture and storage technology, positive outcomes can be achieved. Read More