Led by Co-Chairs Bruce Jones, Vice President of Foreign Policy, and David Victor, Professor at UC San Diego, the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate mobilizes a core group of scholars with expertise in energy geopolitics and markets, climate economics, sustainable development, urban sustainability, and climate governance and regulation. With overseas centers in China, India, and Qatar, Brookings has experts in parts of the globe that encompass two-thirds of humanity, and three-quarters of the world’s energy production and global emissions.
Brookings has compiled a set of recent scholarship from across several research areas in “Highlights from the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate,” which explores the latest updates on key pressing issues in energy and climate. Topics include the future of climate diplomacy, enhancing innovation in clean technologies, carbon pricing, and the latest updates in global energy markets, among others.
For more from the Initiative, visit our homepage and see the full list of affiliated scholars.
David Victor and Bruce Jones discuss the future of climate diplomacy and opportunities for leverage through leadership clubs and technological innovation in this first in a series of the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate.
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President Trump has been clear about two goals of his administration: a push for what he calls “energy dominance” and a clear distaste for regulation of all kinds, particularly of the energy industry. But these two goals can be contradictory, writes Samantha Gross.
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Qi Ye and Jiaqi Lu write about the peaking of China’s coal consumption, noting, despite annual and seasonal fluctuations, the real game changer might be clean energy.
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Warwick McKibbin, Adele Morris, Peter Wilcoxen, and Weifeng Liu look at the effects of a border carbon adjustment on the U.S. economy, through four policy scenarios.
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Is the United States taking on Saudi Arabia’s role in the oil market? It’s an interesting question, and certainly one that the current administration raises with its emphasis on “energy dominance.” But the answer is no—the U.S. industry will never play a similar role to Saudi Arabia’s.
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Devashree Saha and Mark Muro discuss opportunities and barriers to US clean technology innovation, including trends across the sector.
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