Environment

Blog Posts

Solar panels with high rise buildings in the distance

Future Development

Secular stagnation, climate action, and the natural rate of interest

Martin Raiser and Sebastian Eckardt

Thursday, February 4, 2021

A diesel pump is pictured at a gas station in Lagos, Nigeria September 10, 2019. Picture taken September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Africa in Focus

Figures of the week: Carbon taxes can fuel green economic recovery and reduce income inequality

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Tianjin/China-April 12,2020:Smoking chimneys of a power plant, located beside a fishing village.

Future Development

To support climate action, growth measures should count planetary damages

Vinod Thomas

Monday, January 25, 2021

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Events

Prospects for US-South Korea cooperation in an era of US-China strategic competition

9:00 AM - 11:40 AM EST

Brookings-Jinan China microeconomic policy forum 2020

9:00 AM - Saturday Oct 17, 2020 4:00 PM CST

Past Policy 2020 Event

How will the election impact US engagement on climate change?

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

Online only

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Related Books

Ways to Achieve Green Asia

Edited by Bihong Huang and Eden Yu

2019

Smart Country—Connected. Intelligent. Digital.

Edited by Bertelsmann Stiftung

2018

The Water Problem

Edited by Pat Mulroy

2017

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Experts

Sanjay Patnaik

Director - Center on Regulation and Markets

Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development

Fellow - Economic Studies

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Samantha Gross

Director - Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

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Barry G. Rabe

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

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Multimedia

MOSCOW, RUSSIA JANUARY 7, 2021: Work underway to clean up a former dumping ground at the construction site of Moscow State Universitys Vorobyovy Gory Innovative Science and Technology Center (INTTs). The site with an area of 300,000 square metres is expected to be cleaned up in one and a half months. The project is unofficially referred to as research and technology valley or science valley. In 2019, the Russian government announced plans to establish 15 specialised scientific and educational centres (referred to as valleys) based at Russias leading universities as part of the Nauka Project. Vorobyovy Gory Innovative Science and Technology Centre will be granted special legal regimes and tax breaks similar to those granted to Skolkovo. Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS.No use Russia.

Up Front

Disrupting the waste management industry through technology

Sanjay Patnaik and Michael Allegretti

Thursday, January 14, 2021

I.P. Park, president and chief technical officer for LG Electronics, talks about autonomous driving vehicles during a keynote address at the 2019 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 7, 2019. REUTERS/Steve Marcus - RC1CFC83C3B0

Up Front

Regulating autonomous vehicles and ridesharing

Sanjay Patnaik and Genevieve Shiroma

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Washington, DC - April 29, 2017: Thousands of people attend the People's Climate March to stand up against climate change. By Nicole Glass Photography

Podcast Episode

What’s in Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan?

Joseph W. Kane and Adrianna Pita

Friday, July 24, 2020

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More on Environment

Such [grid] networks require continuous monitoring and control (..) and the use of devices connecting the grid to the internet has proven to be a very cost-effective means [to develop such capability].

Tom Stefanick Brussels Morning Thursday, February 4, 2021

Various fishing boats arrayed at a harbor prepare for the new fishing season of 2020 which will start in two days, Zhoushan city, east China's Zhejiang province, 14 September 2020. fachaoshiNo Use China. No Use France.

The national security imperative to tackle illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing

Michael Sinclair

Monday, January 25, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A wind farm shares space with corn fields the day before the Iowa caucuses, where agriculture and clean energy are key issues, in Latimer, Iowa, U.S. February 2, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

Time to pivot: The role of the energy transition and investors in forging resilient resource-rich country outcomes

Victoria Bassetti, Norman Eisen, Michael Jarvis, Suneeta Kaimal, Daniel Kaufmann, Kelsey Landau, Robin J. Lewis, Allison Merkel, Mario Picon, and Erica Westenberg

Friday, January 15, 2021

A general view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on December 1, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. As Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess for the lame duck session, the 7-day average for confirmed COVID-19 cases in America is holding above 150,000. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Who is—and isn’t—represented in environmental oversight in Congress

Mohammed Memfis, Molly E. Reynolds, and Jackson Gode

Monday, December 28, 2020

A participant is pictured in front of a screen projecting a world map during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 8, 2015. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe - LR1EBC80Y0ORX

The Trump administration’s major environmental deregulations

Cayli Baker

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Business as usual is not an option: The future of natural resource governance

Norman Eisen, Michael Jarvis, Suneeta Kaimal, Daniel Kaufmann, Kelsey Landau, Allison Merkel, Robin J. Lewis, Mario Picon, and Erica Westenberg

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

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Reports

Prospects for US-South Korea cooperation in an era of US-China strategic competition

Brookings-Jinan China microeconomic policy forum 2020

How will the election impact US engagement on climate change?

Director - Center on Regulation and Markets

Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development

Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies