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Climate Change Wants All the Smoke

Smoke is no longer blanketing the East Coast of North America. But over the next few decades, people in North America, Europe, and beyond will learn more about the interplay between smoke, sunlight, and heat than they would have liked.

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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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Noah J. Gordon
Noah Gordon

Former Fellow, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program and Fellow, Europe Program

Noah J. Gordon was a fellow in the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

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