The Net Zero Trap

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In The Media

The Net Zero Trap

Countries Need to Reduce Emissions Now, Not Just in the Distant Future.

By Kelly Sims Gallagher

Published on Jul 12, 2022

Foreign Affairs

About the Author

Kelly Sims Gallagher

Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program

Kelly Sims Gallagher is a nonresident scholar in the Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment and is dean, professor of energy and environmental policy, and director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy, at The Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Climate Change

Carnegie India 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.

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