Environment

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

Friday, Jan 24, 2020 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

Brookings Institution

Washington, DC

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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

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

Reports

Report

Ten facts about the economics of climate change and climate policy

Ryan Nunn, Jimmy O’Donnell, Jay Shambaugh, Lawrence H. Goulder, Charles D. Kolstad, and Xianling Long

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Young people protest during a Climate Strike march in San Francisco, U.S. September 20, 2019. REUTERS/Kate Munsch - RC1E90A6ED10

Climate Change

The challenging politics of climate change

Elaine Kamarck

Monday, September 23, 2019

A view of Duke Energy's Marshall Power Plant in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, U.S. November 29, 2018. Picture taken November 29, 2018. To match Special Report USA-COAL/POLLUTION. REUTERS/Chris Keane - RC150344BDC0

Report

The risk of fiscal collapse in coal-reliant communities

Adele Morris, Noah Kaufman, and Siddhi Doshi

Monday, July 15, 2019

Taxation

Policy insights from comparing carbon pricing modeling scenarios

Alexander R. Barron, Marc A. C. Hafstead, and Adele Morris

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

A boy rows his boat in the polluted waters of the Brahmaputra river on the occasion of World Water Day in Guwahati, India, March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Anuwar Hazarika - RC14A5D8FB60

Report

The environment beyond neoliberalism: Delivering sustainable growth

Manish Bapna, Helen Mountford, and Janet Ranganathan

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Blog Posts

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Education Plus Development

National climate strategies are forgetting about girls, children, and youth

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

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Power-generating windmill turbines form a wind farm on Backbone Mountain near Thomas, West Virginia August 28, 2006. While growth in ethanol use as an alternative fuel has had a big impact on rural America, wind power has also been growing steadily for the past three years, with wind farms like this one springing up all over the windy expanse of the Great Plains and beyond. To match feature ENVIRONMENT-USA/WIND. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES) REUTERS - GM1E45J1K9401

PlanetPolicy

Building an ambitious US climate policy from the bottom up

Nathan Hultman

Monday, December 9, 2019

A Chinese flag is seen on the top of a car near a coal-fired power plant in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China November 27, 2019. Picture taken November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee u000d - RC2UKD9SW3H2

Future Development

Top emitters must commit to a U-turn at COP25

Vinod Thomas

Monday, December 2, 2019

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Natural resource management in Africa: A conversation with President of Guinea Alpha Condé

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The new dynamics of global energy and climate: A conversation with Sustainable Energy for All CEO Rachel Kyte

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Experts

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Multimedia

Podcast Episode

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Africa in focus

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An aerial view shows smoke rising over a deforested plot of the Amazon jungle in Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, in this August 24, 2019 picture taken with a drone. Picture taken August 24, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC180A432CE0

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