Paper
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.
Milo McBride
Projects — Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics
The U.S. Foreign Policy for Clean Energy Taskforce
About the Project
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.
This project brings together a high-level, transpartisan taskforce of past and future U.S. foreign policymakers to explore how the U.S. government can use its financial, trade, regulatory, and diplomatic tools to strengthen clean energy supply chains around the world. Through technical analysis of supply chains for key energy technologies and transition minerals, engagement with active policymakers, and the publication of research and convening of public events, the group aims to develop a roadmap for the future of U.S. foreign policy for clean energy.
Programs
Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics
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.
Featured
How the U.S. Can Stop Losing the Race for Clean Energy
The United States lags far behind China in the race for clean energy technologies and critical minerals. It needs a robust domestic industrial policy and international partnerships to make up ground.
Key Products
Catching Up or Leaping Ahead? How Energy Innovation Can Secure U.S. Industrial Stature in a Net-Zero World
Paper
To build clean energy supply chains and regain geopolitical advantage, the United States and its partners need to focus strategic investment. This will require a set of targets that help identify where and when investment is needed.
Bentley Allan, Jonas Goldman, Daniel Helmeci
Paper
The United States has deployed varying degrees of diplomacy, foreign financing, and trade for new energy technologies—but a pragmatic, holistic strategy is in order.
Milo McBride, Daniel Helmeci
Paper
The United States is losing the race for secure supply chains of clean energy. But a new framework could help the United States achieve technological leadership and geopolitical advantage in an interconnected world.
Bentley Allan
Collection
Clean Energy Investment At Home and Abroad
Research
The need to deploy public funds for clean energy is clear. But how could the government do it? The Federal Financing Bank could be the answer.
Sarah Bloom Raskin
Paper
The United States is losing the race for secure supply chains of clean energy. But a new framework could help the United States achieve technological leadership and geopolitical advantage in an interconnected world.
Bentley Allan
Article
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.
Katie Auth
Collection
Centering Clean Energy in Trade and Foreign Policy
Feature
The Carbon to Clean Tracker catalogs where and how fossil fuel power stations are being repurposed into clean alternatives.
Paper
The United States has deployed varying degrees of diplomacy, foreign financing, and trade for new energy technologies—but a pragmatic, holistic strategy is in order.
Milo McBride, Daniel Helmeci
Paper
The United States lags far behind China in the race for clean energy technologies and critical minerals. It needs a robust domestic industrial policy and international partnerships to make up ground.
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Bentley Allan, Milo McBride, Noah Gordon, …
Collection
Embracing American Energy Innovation
Article
Nuclear must be part of the mix.
DJ Nordquist
Paper
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.
Varun Sivaram, Noah Gordon, Daniel Helmeci
Paper
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.
Milo McBride
Taskforce Members
Katie Auth
Policy Director
Energy for Growth Hub
George David Banks
Fellow
Bipartisan Policy Center
Chris Barnard
President
American Conservation Coalition
