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August 5, 2016

China
At China’s G20, G Stands For Green

Gabriel Walker is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. This is the second part of a series on China’s role in international development. Read the first part here…

G20-finance-meeting-flowers

November 2, 2012

Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Obama’s Green Jobs Cost Big Bucks

President Obama is committed to pursuing a “[renewable-energy] strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs” (January 24, 2012). He highlighted the job point during the October 16 presid…

Obama’s Green Jobs Cost Big Bucks

May 2, 2024

China
The President’s Inbox Recap: A Second China Shock

A surge in Chinese manufacturing exports is threatening jobs in many countries, not just the United States.

Three electric vehicles as viewed on a lift in a port.

December 12, 2014

International Organizations
No Blue, No Green: Climate Change and the Fate of the Oceans

Coauthored with Alexandra Kerr, assistant director of the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Extreme fluctuations in the global environment…

A Chinese fishing vessel that ran aground in Tubbataha Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is pictured in Palawan Province, west of Manila.

March 7, 2019

Energy and Climate Policy
How Congressional Appropriations Can Be Leveraged as First Step Toward the Green New Deal

This is a guest post by Benjamin Silliman, research associate for Energy Security and Climate Change at the Council on Foreign Relations.  Amid controversy whether the Green New Deal manifesto is …

U.S. Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) arrives for a news conference after a Senate vote on whether to overturn a presidential veto of the Keystone XL pipeline, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2015.

May 19, 2009

China
Green shoots in China’s April trade data?

I sometimes think I see weeds when others see green shoots, and green shoots when others see weeds. Most analysis of China’s April trade data focused on the negative. Export demand wasn’t particu…

Green shoots in China’s April trade data?