Climate Change

Illustration picture shows a smartphone with Covid-19 app in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on April 19, 2020. The World Health Organisation says tracking infected people, and tracing and alerting their contacts, are vital if the disease is to be kept under control after lockdown. The government says it has received 750 applications from companies to co-operate on a 'corona app' and will draw up a shortlist over the weekend with the aim of producing a draft proposal on April 21. The app is expected to use Bluetooth technology on mobile phones to see who has been in contact with an infected person. Privacy campaigners are concerned that if the app is rolled out too quickly it will not be secure or sufficiently anonymous and have questioned its effectiveness. The governments target is for 60% of people to use the app, but in Singapore, where a voluntary app was introduced, take-up is around 20%. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use Netherlands. No Use Germany.

India

India climate collaborative webinar:Re-emerging green into a post-COVID India

Vikram Singh Mehta

Monday, May 18, 2020

A woman wearing a protective mask walks in front of a graffiti, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes

Future Development

The coronavirus is a siren for the health-related Sustainable Development Goals

Kushal Kadakia and Andrea Thoumi

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

A group of U.S. Forest Service firefighters monitor a back fire while battling to save homes at the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, U.S. November 8, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Lam TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC13174EDFB0

Climate Change

The pandemic won’t save the climate

David G. Victor

Thursday, May 7, 2020

May 1, 2020; Denver, Colorado, USA; A medical mask covers a fiberglass dinosaur outside of gas station in Denver Colorado. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY NETWORK

Climate Change

The carbon tax opportunity

Kemal Derviş and Sebastian Strauss

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Reports

Children march through a shopping centre in Cambridge during a YouthStrike4Climate march.

Report

Roadblocks to quality education in a time of climate change

Christina Kwauk

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Policy 2020

The United States can take climate change seriously while leading the world in oil and gas production

Samantha Gross

Monday, January 27, 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

Report

Africa can play a leading role in the fight against climate change

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

A girl looks on as people take part in a "youth strike for climate change" demonstration in London, Britain February 15, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson - RC1F44A5E6F0

Report

Girls’ education in climate strategies

Christina Kwauk, Jessica Cooke, Elisa Hara, and Joni Pegram

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

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

People ride past a graffiti on a road depicting the coronavirus, as an attempt to raise awareness about the importance of staying at home during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, April 20, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

Future Development

Global solutions to global ‘bads’: 2 practical proposals to help developing countries deal with the COVID-19 pandemic

Ajay Chhibber

Wednesday, April 22, 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?

Samantha Gross

Monday, March 23, 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

Asia Transnational Threats Forum: Climate change in Asia

1:30 PM - 4:45 PM EST

Washington, DC

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Leave No One Behind

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2018

The Economic Consequence of Climate Change

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Experts

Samantha Gross

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

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David G. Victor

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

Vikram Singh Mehta

Chairman - Brookings India

Senior Fellow

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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

Climate activists take part in a Fridays for Future protest at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP25) venue in Madrid, Spain, December 13, 2019. REUTERS/Nacho Doce - RC2FUD9KUV6V

Podcast Episode

What happened at the UN climate change summit?

William Burke-White and Adrianna Pita

Monday, December 16, 2019

Podcast Episode

What is the US doing on climate change?

Nathan Hultman and Adrianna Pita

Monday, December 2, 2019

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