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.
Clean energy and associated products are increasingly essential for the security and prosperity of the United States. But if the United States is to decarbonize its own economy and do its part to cut global emissions to net zero, it will have to effect change beyond its borders.
Bentley Allan
Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Katie Auth
Nonresident Scholar, Africa Program
Dan Baer
Senior Vice President for Policy Research, Director, Europe Program
Susan Crawford
Senior Fellow, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Kelly S. Gallagher
Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
Liliana Gamboa
Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie California; Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Noah Gordon
Acting Co-Director, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program, Fellow, Europe Program
John Kerry
Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Sarah Labowitz
Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Olivia Lazard
Fellow, Carnegie Europe
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Distinguished Fellow
Milo McBride
Fellow, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Satyendra Prasad
Nonresident Senior Fellow, South Asia Program, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
Brett Rosenberg
Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Anirudh Suri
Nonresident Scholar, Technology and Society Program
Katie Tobin
Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Zainab Usman
Senior Fellow and Director, Africa Program
Richard Youngs
Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Aislinn Familetti
Program Coordinator, South Asia and Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Programs
Debbra Goh
James C. Gaither Junior Fellow, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
Debbra Goh is a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in the Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program.
Daniel Helmeci
Research Assistant, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Daniel Helmeci is a research assistant in the Carnegie Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program.
Daevan Mangalmurti
James C. Gaither Junior Fellow, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
Daevan Mangalmurti is a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in the Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program.
Aislinn Familetti
Program Coordinator, South Asia and Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Programs
Debbra Goh
James C. Gaither Junior Fellow, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
Debbra Goh is a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in the Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program.
Daniel Helmeci
Research Assistant, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Daniel Helmeci is a research assistant in the Carnegie Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program.
Daevan Mangalmurti
James C. Gaither Junior Fellow, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
Daevan Mangalmurti is a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in the Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program.
To limit the damage from an escalating trade dispute, the United States and China should negotiate a clean tech détente to balance support for domestic industries given the reality of the countries’ economic interdependence.
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Nuclear must be part of the mix.
A discussion on the future of U.S. clean industrial policy.
The United States battery industry has fallen dangerously behind the global leaders. The main thrust of the U.S. policy response to the battery crisis must be the urgent commercialization of next-generation technologies where the United States can actually enjoy a competitive advantage.
The United States is squandering its best opportunity to compete in the global battery race.
The period after a disaster is a precious time when people, the financial system and the government embody a kind of flexibility that could help support those who want to move out of harm’s way and toward a safer, more resilient way of living better suited to our current climate.
Climate shocks, such as recent, devastating Hurricanes Helene and Milton, open windows when the disaster recovery system can encourage and support adaptation to new climate realities.
The conspiracy playbook focuses on undermining confidence in government and dividing Americans.
A conversation about whether FEMA and other federal agencies can handle the response after back-to-back major hurricanes hit the Southeast U.S. in two weeks.
Policymakers and industry leaders should look to the grocery store for inspiration in regulating the critical mineral industry.
