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Global Systems & Policy
As the largest emitter in world history, the US must take on more of the transitions’ burdens than those they historically exploited. We focus our global systems and policy work on three categories: international financial architecture, peace, and global green industrial policy. Our research is informed by global infrastructure such as sovereign debt, tax, trade, and monetary policy.
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Au-delà de l’extractivisme
Lire en anglais | Lire en espagnol Nous sommes au cœur d’une course mondiale aux minerais stratégiques — une dynamique qui risque de reproduire le modèle …
Global Systems & Policy
Más Allá del Extractivismo
Leer en inglés | Leer en francés Nos encontramos en medio de una carrera armamentística mundial por minerales, una carrera que corre el riesgo de reproducir …
Global Systems & Policy
Labor of the US Military-Industrial Complex
Jobs in the military industry have declined even as the Pentagon budget soars, exposing a broken industrial model.
Global Systems & Policy
Beyond Extractivism
Structural economic transformation is necessary to confront the continued growth of resource extraction that threatens ecosystems and rights.
Global Systems & Policy
Trump’s Illegal Invasion of Venezuela Forebodes an Environmental Disaster
The US’s illegal invasion of Venezuela on January 3, 2026 exacerbates global instability, geoeconomic uncertainty, and accelerates atmospheric and biospheric breakdown. Returning Venezuelan oil production to …
Global Systems & Policy
Mining for War: Assessing the Pentagon’s Mineral Stockpile
The Pentagon is rapidly expanding its stockpile of the so-called “critical minerals” it deems essential for military industries. Many of these same materials—known as energy transition …
Global Systems & Policy
Green Industrial Policy Needs a New Financial Architecture
One of the biggest obstacles for enacting green industrial policy (GIP), particularly for fiscally constrained countries in the Global South, is financing it. This is especially …
Global Systems & Policy
Global Green Industrial Policy
Amidst overlapping environmental and economic crises, green industrial policy (GIP) is playing an increasingly salient role in global politics. But conceptions of what GIP is—or what …
Global Systems & Policy
Transformative Biodiversity Policy at a Stalemate
This study updates our research that shows how governments—highly constrained by financial and political conditions to implement a just ecological transition—are “Exporting Extinction.” The briefing reports …
Global Systems & Policy
