Environment

Can we end corruption in oil, gas, and mining?

Wednesday, Jul 01, 2020 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT

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A mine worker is pictured at the Freda Rebecca gold mine in Bindura

FixGov

Oil, gas, and mining corruption: Is it inevitable?

Victoria Bassetti and Norman Eisen

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Flames emerge from the flare stacks at the West Qurna-1 oilfield, which is operated by Exxon Mobil, near Basra, Iraq, May 20, 2019. Picture taken May 20, 2019. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani - RC1D78173900

Environment

The TAP-Plus approach to anti-corruption in the natural resource value chain

Norman Eisen, Daniel Kaufmann, Nathaniel Heller, J. Preston Whitt, Mario Picon, Victoria Bassetti, and John Hudak

Sunday, June 28, 2020

A water basin is seen near Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam 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

Could the Nile dispute be an opportunity to boost freshwater technology?

Addisu Lashitew and Haim Kassa Gebeyehu

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Reports

Essay

Why are fossil fuels so hard to quit?

Samantha Gross

Monday, June 8, 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

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

Blog Posts

A monkey sits in a cage a market in Mong La on Myanmar's border with China on August 15, 2007. Chinese demand for exotic wildlife -- part of a global multi-billion dollar black market -- is emptying the Myanmar's jungles of wild elephants, monkeys and tigers. To match feature MYANMAR/WILDLIFE REUTERS/Stringer (MYANMAR)

Order from Chaos

Reopening the World: To prevent zoogenic pandemics, regulate wildlife trade and food production

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Flames rise near trees during a wildfire dubbed the Cave Fire burning in the hills of Santa Barbara, California, U.S., November 26, 2019. REUTERS/David McNew

Order from Chaos

Play the game: A president’s climate quandary

Samantha Gross

Monday, June 8, 2020

A demonstrator holds a papier-mache jaguar with a note reading " No ecocidal train" as Mexico's Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) protest against the construction of the Mayan train and the Santa Lucia airport projects promoted by Mexico's government in Mexico City, Mexico, February 21, 2020. REUTERS/ Edgard Garrido TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Order from Chaos

Wildlife trade in Mexico, conservation, and pandemics

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, May 11, 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

Brookings–Jinan China microeconomic policy forum 2019

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

Guangzhou, China

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Experts

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Multimedia

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

Energy Industry

What drove oil prices through the floor this week?

Samantha Gross and David Dollar

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

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Podcast Episode

What happened at the UN climate change summit?

William Burke-White and Adrianna Pita

Monday, December 16, 2019

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