Environment

Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam is seen as it undergoes construction work on the river Nile in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia September 26, 2019. Picture taken September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Op-Ed

The United States must not pick sides in the Nile River dispute

Addisu Lashitew

Monday, March 16, 2020

Africa in focus

Why Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan should ditch a rushed, Washington-brokered Nile Treaty

Addisu Lashitew

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

A worker inspects a conveyor belt carrying coal at a coal coking plant in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, China January 31, 2018. Picture taken January 31, 2018. REUTERS/William Hong

Op-Ed

Getting carbon border taxes right

Kemal Derviş

Wednesday, February 12, 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

Reports

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

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

Blog Posts

A girl holds a sign that reads: "Let's stop climate change", during a protest against climate change in Bogota, Colombia May 24, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez - RC1BF6638B60

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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Events

2020

Jan

Past Event

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

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

Brookings–Jinan China microeconomic policy forum 2019

2:00 PM - Saturday Oct 12, 2019 6:00 PM CST

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

4:30 PM - 5:45 PM EDT

Washington, DC

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Experts

Jeffrey Ball

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate

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Samantha Gross

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

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Adele Morris

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

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Multimedia

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

Demonstrators march down Pennsylvania Avenue during a People's Climate March, to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's stance on the environment, in Washington, U.S., April 29, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Theiler TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1C93696C90

Policy 2020

What to do about climate change and why?

Samantha Gross

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

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