Programs
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
U.S. financing for foreign investments in clean energy is in a decisive period: the world is facing an energy shock from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the United States is preparing for the 2026 elections, the U.S. Export-Import Bank requires reauthorization by the end of the year, and China continues to dominate global clean energy markets. Against this background, the U.S. energy industry and national security community are calling for the state to help expand the supply of clean energy and support U.S. exports and the spread of U.S. technology.
This trio of papers outlines a vision for the future of U.S. foreign energy investment, focusing on the International Development Finance Corporation, the Export-Import Bank, and the overall, cross-agency project pipeline. The aim is to inform efforts to boost U.S. support for clean energy around the world.
Program Experts
Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Nonresident Scholar, Africa Program
Interim President
Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie California; Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Fellow, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program and Fellow, Europe Program
Vice President for Studies
Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Senior Fellow, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Senior Fellow and Director, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Distinguished Fellow
Fellow, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Visiting Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Fellow, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Nonresident Scholar, Technology and Society Program
Senior Fellow and Director, Climate Mobility Project, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Latest Work
Batteries are the backbone of a clean power grid, a competitive automobile industry, and essential to the frontiers of warfare. At the moment, the products, innovation, and supply chain are overwhelmingly dominated by China. How might other countries securely develop battery industries, and what can they learn from one another to strengthen their position?
Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Sarah Ladislaw, Herbert Crowther, …
They face an uphill climb, but they could draw on a strategy that other diplomats have used in the past.
Shana Tabak, Alejandro Martin Rodriguez
Understanding the climatic pain points is necessary for policymakers hoping to minimize the war’s negative environmental consequences.
Alejandro Martin Rodriguez, Joy Arkeh, Sarah Yerkes
Congress needs to step up and make EXIM a low-carbon financing powerhouse.
Jesse Young
The Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics program of the Carnegie Endowment is publishing a series of reports outlining a vision for the future of U.S. foreign energy investment, focusing on the International Development Finance Corporation, the Export-Import Bank, and the overall, cross-agency project pipeline.
Jesse Young, Katie Auth, Noah Gordon, …
By focusing only on hard security, the Shield ignores the conditions that fuel cartel power.
Alejandro Martin Rodriguez, Kayly Ober
About Us
Research Assistant, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
Debbra Goh is a research assistant in the Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program.
Otoniel Ramos
Research Assistant, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
Chloe Fontenelle
Program Coordinator, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics and South Asia Programs
Sarah Brown
Program and Research Manager, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
