Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate

Steam rises from a pile of coal at a mine in Bishop, West Virginia, U.S., May 19, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Podcast Episode

Why we still use fossil fuels

Samantha Gross and Fred Dews

Friday, July 17, 2020

PlanetPolicy

Building back better: Why Europe must lead a global green recovery

David G. Victor

June 11, 2020

United States Treasury check with US currency. Illustrates IRS tax refund or coronavirus economic impact stimulus payments to taxpayers affected by the pandemic.

Climate Change

After COVID-19, green investment must deliver jobs to get political traction

Ryan Hanna, Yangyang Xu, and David G. Victor

Nature Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Flames rise near trees during a wildfire dubbed the Cave Fire burning in the hills of Santa Barbara, California, U.S., November 26, 2019. REUTERS/David McNew

Order from Chaos

Play the game: A president’s climate quandary

Samantha Gross

Monday, June 8, 2020

Research

Essay

Why are fossil fuels so hard to quit?

Samantha Gross

Monday, June 8, 2020

A general view of the new PS20 solar plant which was inaugurated last month at "Solucar" solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, October 7, 2009. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto towers where they produce steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN ENERGY ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E5A71NB401

Climate Change

Renewables, land use, and local opposition in the United States

Samantha Gross

January 2020

A general view of Abadan oil refinery in southwest Iran, is pictured from Iraqi side of Shatt al-Arab in Al-Faw south of Basra, Iraq September 21, 2019. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani - RC156ACB6840

Energy Security

The shifting energy landscape and the Gulf economies’ diversification challenge

Samantha Gross and Adel Abdel Ghafar

December 2019

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Blog Posts

A Greenpeace activist makes adjustments while hanging from the ceiling inside a giant model of the globe near Konin open mine, 70 km from Poznan, western Poland December 3, 2008. Greenpeace established a camp to protest against the damage it says the Konin mine is doing to the climate, regional tourism and farming, and against the planned opening of new sites. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel (POLAND) - GM1E4C406SK01

PlanetPolicy

COVID-19 and climate: Your questions, our answers

Pablo Vieira, Stéphane Hallegatte, Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, and Todd Stern

Thursday, April 23, 2020

A picture taken on March 5, 2020 shows the headquarters of OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, in Geneva, Switzerland. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Order from Chaos

No winners, only strange bedfellows, from the new OPEC+ deal

Samantha Gross

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A Chinese investor looks at stock index and prices of shares (red for price rising and green for price falling) at a stock brokerage house in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province, 14 February 2019.The China stock market on Thursday wrote a finish to the five-day winning streak in which it had surged almost 150 points or 5.9 percent. The Shanghai Composite Index now rests just beneath the 2,720-point plateau and it may extend its losses on Friday (15 February 2019). The global forecast for the Asian markets is mixed to lower on concerns for trade and the outlook for interest rates. The European and U.S. markets were mostly lower and the Asian markets are likely to open in similar fashion. The SCI finished barely lower on Thursday following losses from the energy producers, while the financials and properties came in mixed. For the day, the index dipped 1.37 points or 0.05 percent to finish at 2,719.70 after trading between 2,707.49 and 2,729.46. The Shenzhen Composite Index rose 9.16 points or 0.66 percent to end at 1,398.84.No Use China. No Use France.

Order from Chaos

Forecasting energy futures amid the coronavirus outbreak

David G. Victor

Friday, April 3, 2020

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Events

2020

Apr

Past Event

Webinar: Confronting climate change in the global COVID-19 recovery

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Climate threats and climate justice: Action and adaptation for sustainable development

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

Are trans-Atlantic relations obsolete? Discussing the future of the alliance with a special focus on joint action on climate change

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM CET

Berlin, Germany

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Experts

Bruce Jones

Director - Project on International Order and Strategy

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Project on International Order and Strategy

BruceBrookings

David G. Victor

Co-Chair - Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate

Samantha Gross

Director - Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

samanthaenergy

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Multimedia

Demonstrators take part in the rally ''Europe Climate Strike'' in Brussels, Belgium, March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

Podcast Episode

What coronavirus teaches us about addressing climate change

William Burke-White, Todd Stern, and Andrea Risotto

Friday, April 10, 2020

A woman poses next to a polar bear mural in the town of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway, August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay SEARCH "SVALBARD CLIMATE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC157F319730

Climate Change

A global response to the climate crisis

Amar Bhattacharya, Samantha Gross, and Fred Dews

Friday, September 20, 2019

A Volkswagen I.D. electric vehicle is shown at a news conference in Guangzhou, China November 17, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip - D1BEUNIGXQAA

Podcast Episode

China’s epic push for cleaner energy

Jeffrey Ball and David G. Victor

Friday, May 31, 2019

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