A Planet in Peril and the Future of Humanity

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Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics

The Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program explores how climate change and the responses to it are changing international politics, global governance, and world security. Our work covers topics from the geopolitical implications of decarbonization and environmental breakdown to the challenge of building out clean energy supply chains, alternative protein options, and other challenges of a warming planet.

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Global Order and Institutions

Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions Program identifies promising new multilateral initiatives and frameworks to realize a more peaceful, prosperous, just, and sustainable world. That mission has never been more important, or more challenging. Geopolitical competition, populist nationalism, economic inequality, technological innovation, and a planetary ecological emergency are testing the rules-based international order and complicating collective responses to shared threats. Our mission is to design global solutions to global problems.

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Humanity’s assault on the natural world has reached a critical juncture. According to a sobering new report in Nature, human activity has already pushed critical components of the Earth System beyond their “safe and just” limits, threatening the future of civilization and life on our planet. Can anything be done to reduce the risks posed by climate change and bring humanity back into balance with the biosphere? And what hope exists for the resilience of our planet and the future of our species?

Join us for a conversation with Johan Rockström, co-chair of the Earth Commission and lead author of the Nature report, to learn more about the deteriorating health of the planet—and how international cooperation must adapt to prevent catastrophe. This meeting is co-sponsored by Carnegie's Global Order and Institutions, and Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics programs.

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

program

Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics

The Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program explores how climate change and the responses to it are changing international politics, global governance, and world security. Our work covers topics from the geopolitical implications of decarbonization and environmental breakdown to the challenge of building out clean energy supply chains, alternative protein options, and other challenges of a warming planet.

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program

Global Order and Institutions

Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions Program identifies promising new multilateral initiatives and frameworks to realize a more peaceful, prosperous, just, and sustainable world. That mission has never been more important, or more challenging. Geopolitical competition, populist nationalism, economic inequality, technological innovation, and a planetary ecological emergency are testing the rules-based international order and complicating collective responses to shared threats. Our mission is to design global solutions to global problems.

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A Planet in Peril and the Future of Humanity

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