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Brookings Initiative on Climate Research and Action

Climate change is a pressing global challenge, demanding transformative leadership and economic re-imagining. The Brookings Initiative on Climate Research and Action (BICRA) unites experts to develop practical solutions, empowering leaders to address climate challenges and capitalize on opportunities for resilient growth worldwide.

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Areas of Focus

Accelerating climate action and ambition
Accelerating climate action and ambition

Tackling climate change requires coordinated action. Given the enormity of the threat, the response must be global, urgent, and on a great scale.
Facilitating just economic transitions
Facilitating just economic transitions

Transitioning to renewable energy resources must be coupled with policies that protect the health, wealth, and security of the communities who will bear the burden of such a shift.
Creating climate-resilient economies and communities
Creating climate-resilient economies and communities

Bold, strategic investments in infrastructure can create more competitive businesses, resilient communities, and reduced carbon emissions for generations to come.

Experts

Brahima S. Coulibaly
Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly Vice President and Director - Global Economy and Development, Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Samantha Gross, Fellow, Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate, The Brookings Institution
Samantha Gross Director - Energy Security and Climate Initiative, Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Amar Bhattacharya
Amar Bhattacharya Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development

Sanjay Patnaik at the HBS campus in Boston April 19, 2011Photographer: Neal Hamberg
Sanjay Patnaik Director - Center on Regulation and Markets, Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development, Senior Fellow - Economic Studies
Bruce Jones
Bruce Jones Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Joe Kane
Joseph W. Kane Fellow - Brookings Metro

Suzanne Maloney Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy

Joshua Meltzer
Joshua P. Meltzer Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Mark Muro Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro

Jenny Schuetz
Jenny Schuetz Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro
Adie Tomer Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro

David Victor, Co-Chair, Energy Security and Climate Initiative
David G. Victor Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Landry Signe
Landry Signé Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative
Jeffrey Ball, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate
Jeffrey Ball Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye
Ahmadou Aly Mbaye Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative
Warwick McKibbin
Warwick J. McKibbin Former expert - Economic Studies, Center on Regulation and Markets, Distinguished Professor of Economics & Public Policy - Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Barry Rabe
Barry G. Rabe Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Glenn Rudebusch
Glenn D. Rudebusch Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Todd Stern, Senior Fellow, Cross-Brookings Initiative on Climate and Energy, The Brookings Institution
Todd Stern Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Rahul Tongia, Fellow, Brookings India
Rahul Tongia Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

John McArthur
John W. McArthur Director - Center for Sustainable Development, Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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