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Brookings Initiative on Climate Research and Action

Climate change is a pressing global challenge, demanding transformative leadership and economic re-imagining. The Brookings Initiative on Climate Research and Action (BICRA) unites experts to develop practical solutions, empowering leaders to address climate challenges and capitalize on opportunities for resilient growth worldwide.

Areas of Focus

Accelerating climate action and ambition
Accelerating climate action and ambition

Tackling climate change requires coordinated action. Given the enormity of the threat, the response must be global, urgent, and on a great scale.
Facilitating just economic transitions
Facilitating just economic transitions

Transitioning to renewable energy resources must be coupled with policies that protect the health, wealth, and security of the communities who will bear the burden of such a shift.
Creating climate-resilient economies and communities
Creating climate-resilient economies and communities

Bold, strategic investments in infrastructure can create more competitive businesses, resilient communities, and reduced carbon emissions for generations to come.

Experts

Samantha Gross, Fellow, Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate, The Brookings Institution
Samantha Gross Director - Energy Security and Climate Initiative, Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Amar Bhattacharya
Amar Bhattacharya Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development

Sanjay Patnaik at the HBS campus in Boston April 19, 2011Photographer: Neal Hamberg
Sanjay Patnaik Director - Center on Regulation and Markets, Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development, Senior Fellow - Economic Studies
Bruce Jones
Bruce Jones Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Suzanne Maloney Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy

David Victor, Co-Chair, Energy Security and Climate Initiative
David G. Victor Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Vanessa Williamson
Vanessa Williamson Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Senior Fellow - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

Landry Signe
Landry Signé Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative
Jeffrey Ball, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate
Jeffrey Ball Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye
Ahmadou Aly Mbaye Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative
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Mark Muro Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro

Barry Rabe
Barry G. Rabe Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Effective Public Management (CEPM)

Glenn Rudebusch
Glenn D. Rudebusch Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Todd Stern, Senior Fellow, Cross-Brookings Initiative on Climate and Energy, The Brookings Institution
Todd Stern Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

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