Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate

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Climate Change

The pandemic won’t save the climate

David G. Victor

Thursday, May 7, 2020

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 worker operates a machinery to clean solar panels at a photovoltaic industrial park in Hami, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China October 22, 2018. Picture taken October 22, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. - RC1863B9EEF0

Climate Change

The urgent question on Earth Day remains how to avoid the consequences of climate change

David G. Victor

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

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

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Research

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

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

A worker adjusts a banner at IFEMA Convention Center ahead of the 2019 U.N. climate change conference (COP 25) in Madrid, Spain, November 30, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Perez - RC2OLD9FBG5P

Climate Change

Accelerating the low carbon transition

David G. Victor, Frank W. Geels, and Simon Sharpe

Monday, December 9, 2019

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Blog Posts

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

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

A nearly empty East 42nd Street is seen in midtown Manhattan as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in New York City, New York, U.S., March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Order from Chaos

Will investments in greener energy be yet another victim of the coronavirus?

Monday, March 23, 2020

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Events

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

Leading carbon price proposals: A bipartisan dialogue

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

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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

David G. Victor

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

Samantha Gross

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

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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

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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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