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 Sims Gallagher

Kelly Sims 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 and Fellow, Europe Program

Corey Hinderstein

Vice President for Studies

John Kerry

John Kerry

Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program

Sarah Labowitz

Sarah Labowitz

Senior Fellow, 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

Brett Rosenberg

Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program

Narayan Subramanian

Narayan Subramanian

Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics 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

What’s New

What’s New

Photo of children outside a makeshift home in a settlement for people displaced by climate disasters in Somalia.
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What Is Climate Mobility, and Why Should We Care?

Climate disasters increasingly challenge people’s decisions about where to live. It’s time for the world to adapt.

Featured Content

Featured Content

In Case You Missed It

In Case You Missed It

Woman tossing debris
commentary
Trump’s Plan to Push FEMA’s Role to the States Will Be a Fiscal Disaster

Many states are not equipped to handle their own recovery without federal help.

Woman tossing debris
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Trump’s Plan to Push FEMA’s Role to the States Will Be a Fiscal Disaster

Many states are not equipped to handle their own recovery without federal help.

Workers walk in the flooded train station Tullnerfeld after heavy rain on September 17, 2024 in Pixendorf, Austria.
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Comparing National Flood Insurance Frameworks: Lessons and Trade-Offs

Every year, flooding imposes large human and economic costs around the world. These damages are increasing. Land use practices can intensify the dangers, and many people lack insurance and struggle to recover from floods.

Workers walk in the flooded train station Tullnerfeld after heavy rain on September 17, 2024 in Pixendorf, Austria.
paper
Comparing National Flood Insurance Frameworks: Lessons and Trade-Offs

Every year, flooding imposes large human and economic costs around the world. These damages are increasing. Land use practices can intensify the dangers, and many people lack insurance and struggle to recover from floods.

people marching holding signs
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Introducing Carnegie’s Revamped Climate Protest Tracker

As climate activism expands and evolves, its complexity will likely increase, and detailed protest data will be essential to understanding the impacts.

people marching holding signs
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Introducing Carnegie’s Revamped Climate Protest Tracker

As climate activism expands and evolves, its complexity will likely increase, and detailed protest data will be essential to understanding the impacts.

About Us

Climate Support Staff

About Us

Climate Support Staff

Aislinn Familetti

Program Administrator, South Asia and Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Programs

Debbra Goh

Research Assistant, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program

Debbra Goh is a research assistant 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 Administrator, South Asia and Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Programs

Debbra Goh

Research Assistant, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program

Debbra Goh is a research assistant 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.