Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics
Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics
About the Program

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.

Projects

The U.S. Foreign Policy for Clean Energy Taskforce

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.

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Program experts

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

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

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

Matias Spektor

Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics 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

What’s New

What’s New

A hurricane from space
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Disaster Dollar Database

The rising pace and cost of disasters is cause for alarm, both because of the likelihood of major disruption in so many people’s lives, and because of the potential for systemic failures in the housing and insurance markets that could lead to wider, global economic shocks.

Advanced Orange Industrial Robot Arms Assemble EV Battery Pack on Automated Production Line
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Winning the Battery Race: How the United States Can Leapfrog China to Dominate Next-Generation Battery Technologies

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.

Featured Content

Featured Content

In Case You Missed It

In Case You Missed It

Coffee beans fall off a man's hand and into a big bag of beans
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What the Cobalt Industry Can Learn From Coffee Producers

Policymakers and industry leaders should look to the grocery store for inspiration in regulating the critical mineral industry.

  • Stephen Lezak
Coffee beans fall off a man's hand and into a big bag of beans
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What the Cobalt Industry Can Learn From Coffee Producers

Policymakers and industry leaders should look to the grocery store for inspiration in regulating the critical mineral industry.

  • Stephen Lezak
An aerial view of people standing near destroyed and damaged buildings in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene flooding on October 8, 2024 in Bat Cave, North Carolina.
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Adaptation Through Shock

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.

An aerial view of people standing near destroyed and damaged buildings in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene flooding on October 8, 2024 in Bat Cave, North Carolina.
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Adaptation Through Shock

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.

Ford Motor Company's electric F-150 Lightning on the production line at their Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan on September 8, 2022.
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Catching Up or Leaping Ahead? How Energy Innovation Can Secure U.S. Industrial Stature in a Net-Zero World

Chinese companies are dominating the production of technologies essential for a clean energy future. The United States should embrace innovation to preserve its future energy security.

Ford Motor Company's electric F-150 Lightning on the production line at their Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan on September 8, 2022.
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Catching Up or Leaping Ahead? How Energy Innovation Can Secure U.S. Industrial Stature in a Net-Zero World

Chinese companies are dominating the production of technologies essential for a clean energy future. The United States should embrace innovation to preserve its future energy security.

About Us

Climate Support Staff

About Us

Climate Support Staff

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.

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