Climate Change
World to Come: The Return of Trump and the End of the Old Order
If it is to survive, a multipolar world will require more, not less, international cooperation to tackle climate change and prevent another financial crisis or military conflict.
In the Line of Fire: The IEA Is Right Where It Should Be
The IEA is right where it should be, and as a result, the agency may just have to take some bullets to do its duty of informing policy makers. Conservative...
How Donald Trump is Undermining the Intelligence Community
The recently published Annual Threat Assessment reflects the administration’s political priorities and biases and the intelligence community’s willingness to defer to them.
Dear Taiwan: Spend On Defense, Not Climate Change
Taiwan’s national priority on climate change is wildly misplaced. The island nation must boost defense spending in an increasingly hostile Asia-Pacific. It makes sense for a country facing existential threats...
Building the Future: Empowering India’s Smaller Cities for Climate Action
Empowering India’s smaller cities and making them able to weather the worsening effects of climate change will be imperative as CO₂ emissions continue to rise. India’s urbanization trajectory is set...
National Energy Emergency and Climate Change
Despite President Trump’s national energy emergency, the grand experiment of global climate change will proceed apace with the human race, not looking in from the outside, but with itself inside...
The AI Renaissance Cannot Escape Its Power Needs
There is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) bonanza taking place in America. To grow and thrive, AI needs data. Data centers need to be constructed to marshal this resource. Northern Virginia,...
The U.S. Took Heat for Its ICJ Climate Stance. But It Was Right.
For the people of Vanuatu, climate change is not a distant threat—it’s here now. Rising seas swallow shorelines, storms batter homes, and entire villages face relocation. Desperate to hold the...
Joe Biden’s Parting Shot To Natural Gas
While the Biden administration’s views on energy policy are arguably of rapidly diminishing importance, the study on U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) released by the Department of Energy...
MAGA Needs Clean Energy
Climate change is an issue of global concern but not a MAGA priority. Clean energy, on the other hand, should be. Conflating the two is a big mistake. Increasing American...
Understanding Climate Migration
Representatives from countries around the world are convened in Baku, Azerbaijan, through Friday (November 22) for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the COP29, for ongoing talks...
VIDEO: An Interview w/ U.S. Ambassador Joey R. Hood
On October 30, the Center for the National Interest hosted an interview with U.S. Ambassador Joey Hood to discuss the future of Tunisia and its longstanding relationship with the United...