Environment

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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

Monday, December 9, 2019

Podcast Episode

What is the US doing on climate change?

Nathan Hultman and Adrianna Pita

Monday, December 2, 2019

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Future Development

Top emitters must commit to a U-turn at COP25

Monday, December 2, 2019

Reports

Solar panels & forest fires

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

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Climate Change

The challenging politics of climate change

Monday, September 23, 2019

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Report

The risk of fiscal collapse in coal-reliant communities

Adele Morris, Noah Kaufman, and Siddhi Doshi

Monday, July 15, 2019

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Taxation

Policy insights from comparing carbon pricing modeling scenarios

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

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

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Report

The environment beyond neoliberalism: Delivering sustainable growth

Manish Bapna, Helen Mountford, and Janet Ranganathan

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Blog Posts

detail of white smoke polluted sky

Brown Center Chalkboard

How exposure to pollution affects educational outcomes and inequality

Claudia Persico

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

A conversation with Guinean President Condé on natural resource management in Africa

Africa in focus

A conversation with Guinean President Condé on natural resource management in Africa

Christina Golubski

Thursday, October 3, 2019

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The Avenue

How a scrappy federal IT program can be a model for US climate action

Shalini Vajjhala

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

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Events

Brookings–Jinan China microeconomic policy forum 2019

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

Guangzhou, China

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

4:30 PM - 5:45 PM EDT

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

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

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The Water Problem

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Experts

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Up Front

Are the kids alright? Saving and wealth accumulation among the millennial generation

William G. Gale

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

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Up Front

College sports joins the marketplace, with limits

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Samantha Gross

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

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Multimedia

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Podcast Episode

What do the Amazon fires mean for Brazil’s economic future?

Otaviano Canuto

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

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Podcast Episode

China’s epic push for cleaner energy

Jeffrey Ball and David G. Victor

Friday, May 31, 2019

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Environment

Earth Day during the Trump Administration

Thursday, April 19, 2018

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