The rising pace and cost of disasters is cause for alarm, both because of the likelihood of major disruption in so many people’s lives, and because of the potential for systemic failures in the housing and insurance markets that could lead to wider, global economic shocks.

Key insights from a peer-learning negotiation workshop.

The country’s new climate credit programs have the potential to benefit local communities, but will face hurdles along the way.

Politics is pushing the United States and Europe to prefer domestically produced clean energy technologies. But such preferences risk slowing that transition—unless the governments take supplementary measures.

The world may be moving past neoliberalism, but it is hampered by an out-of-date approach to investment. Improving the quantity and quality of international public spending is required to combat the climate emergency. 

Communities will soon be hammered by climate impacts or hollowed out by declining consumer demand. U.S. policymakers need to make the energy transition equitable.