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
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
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
Climate change presents states with new obligations. Chile and Colombia are asking what those are.
If you were to unwrap the intersecting problems known as “the polycrisis,” you’d find climate change at the middle. Destructive floods, unaffordable energy, unsustainable debt burdens, and economic conflict between superpowers — the overheating of the planet plays a role in all of them.
Roughly half of the world lives in countries holding elections in 2024. Carnegie asked a global group scholars to reflect on the role of migration in electoral campaigns.
Bipartisan Consensus Is Key—but Depends on U.S. Control of Supply Chains.
AI threatens to further increase carbon emissions. But the U.S. government, especially the Pentagon, has an opportunity to incentivize energy-efficient computing and even use AI to save fuel.
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Join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the German Council on Foreign Relations for a hybrid discussion on the future of climate foreign policy.
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The ongoing African Growth and Opportunity Act reauthorization process could facilitate the expansion of U.S.-Africa trade in critical minerals.
Ambitious U.S. rhetoric and commitment to African infrastructure requires follow-through. By taking a few concrete steps, the United States can make real progress on this worthy goal.
The capitalist pursuit of growth at all costs is one reason the planet is overheating. But it’s also possible, argues Akshat Rathi, to harness the forces of capitalism to tackle the climate crisis. Join the Carnegie Endowment on April 4,for a discussion of Akshat Rathi’s new book Climate Capitalism, named one of the best books of the year by the London Times.
On April 16, scientists, academics, and other experts will convene in Riga, Latvia, for the scoping meeting for the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities, to be included in the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
