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
Fellow, 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
Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
Senior Fellow and Director, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
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
Director, Africa Program
Richard Youngs
Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
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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.
Flood risks affect homeowners’ costs and home values, but the housing finance system may not sufficiently account for these risks.
Many of the countries with globally significant mineral resources—which the United States and its allies will depend on to diversify the clean energy supply chain—are deeply energy insecure.
Hurricane-strength fires in dense, urban areas are a game-changer for an already fragile federal recovery structure.
For Global South governments to treat the United States as a credible partner in their economic development plans, U.S. policymakers must tackle the macroeconomic and structural constraints that kneecap the overall goals of sustainable development.
Renewal negotiations offer the best—maybe the only—path to strengthening North America's clean energy supply chain.
The world is being defined by global value chains, fierce competition, and limited public resources. Must the United States compete in all areas and domains?
Better models are needed to factor a solar boom into climate change projections.
Everything the Blue Pacific does will matter little if the 1.5 Celsius target is lost. Baku has failed to secure this.
Trump likely will again withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement and possibly from the UN climate change framework governing it. U.S. influence on climate affairs may diminish, but the upheaval could give way to other approaches.
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.
