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 Archive
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 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 …
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 …
Indebting the Green Transition
Discussions about the sovereign debt-climate crisis nexus are grinding on in formal spaces like the United Nations and World Bank, but systemic and transformative change appears …
Redirecting Energy Transition Minerals from the Pentagon Fleet to the Public Good
The Pentagon is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels, but it is also the US federal government’s leader in electrifying some of its transportation—especially …
The Climate Crisis and the US War Machine
Warmaking, and the industries that supply and profit from it, fuels the climate crisis. Only a reparative approach can begin to reverse militarization and environmental breakdown. …
Restoring trust at COP29
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) will begin in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 11, 2024. 197 countries and the EU will meet to “significantly enhance …
Briefing Note for UN Biodiversity Conference 2024 –Financial resources, debt and tax
The 16th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity kicks off in Cali, Colombia this week. While virtually all nations agree that much …
Reparative Fiscal Justice for Caribbean Climate Action
The intertwined challenges of climate and fiscal crises are devastating the ecologies and economies of countries around the world. This is felt most acutely in the …
