Climate & Energy
Nigel Purvis, Cecilia Springer, Samuel Grausz, May 10, 2013
This paper seeks to make sense of how a sluggish economy, rising budget deficits, and other factors press against strong U.S. action on climate change at home or abroad.
May 03, 2013
On May 3, 2013 GMF convened a group of high-level business leaders, policymakers, and other thought leaders from the United States and Europe in a full-day discussion on the global energy system.
May 02, 2013
On May 2, 2013 GMF convened a small group of business leaders and policymakers from both sides of the Atlantic for an off-the-record dialogue to identify the pressing challenges facing EU and U.S. ele
About The Climate & Energy Program
GMF’s Climate & Energy Program aims to advance transatlantic leadership on scalable policy and business solutions to reduce the risks of climate change and achieve a low-carbon, secure, and affordable energy future, while conserving natural resources.
The Program works to support transatlantic cooperation on U.S. and EU domestic climate and energy policies and international climate and energy cooperation more broadly. GMF believes that transatlantic cooperation on these issues is both mutually beneficial and essential for global leadership to avoid dangerous climate change. GMF seeks to inform the debate with objective data and the best examples of successful policies that could be shared across the Atlantic or more widely. Finally, GMF believes that international progress on climate and energy policy depends on the broadening of the debate away from a narrow focus on environmental policy to something that informs all social, economic, and foreign policy.
Through transatlantic dialogues, policy briefs and publications, and study tours, the Climate & Energy Program engages policymakers, business leaders, academics, and members of the NGO community from both sides of the Atlantic.
Air Supremacy: The Surprisingly Important Dogfight over Climate Pollution from International Aviation
Energy Transition Forum Context Paper
Energy in the Wider Atlantic BasinWashington DC
The Central and Eastern European Energy Security Forum: “Perspectives on Energy Security”Warsaw, Poland
Cyprus’ €10 Billion Bailout Deal Will Be Tough but Recovery is Possible
Crash Landing International Aviation Emission Talks Could Ignite Trade War
Climate & Energy Program Initiatives
Transatlantic Cooperation on Domestic Climate and Energy PoliciesGMF facilitates the exchange of expertise and experiences between the EU and the United States on ways to increase the ambition of their respective domestic energy and climate change policies. This includes study tours for policymakers to learn more about successful renewable energy policies, sustainable urban development, defusing the potential for conflict over policy disagreements, and a greater role for science in climate and energy policymaking.
Energy Transition ForumThe Energy Transition Forum was created in 2012 to provide a regular venue for open, structured, and fact-based dialogue among senior leaders from the private and public sectors in the United States and Europe about the market conditions and policy frameworks needed for a timely transition to a secure, affordable, and low-carbon energy future. Its intention is to bring together a coalition of leaders to produce new thinking on how to address the key challenges facing the energy system.
Eastern Mediterranean Energy ProjectGMF’s Eastern Mediterranean Energy Project addresses the political and economic implications, risks and opportunities of the recent energy discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Major discoveries of natural gas off the shores of Israel and Cyprus - and potentially elsewhere - could bring to the region the benefits of energy security, economic gains, and a cleaner environment. But the region’s energy choices are fraught with political risks and policy dilemmas.
Central and Eastern European Energy Security ForumGMF’s Central Eastern Europe Energy Security Forum brings together the most experienced and relevant analysts, government officials, and opinion makers from the wider region (including the EU Institutions and the United States, as well as other interested stakeholders) in a regular, data-informed discussion on issues of energy policy that are relevant for the region and the broader transatlantic policy community. The Forum reflects the increasing interest of U.S. as well as European companies in exploring new unconventional sources of energy in that region, the U.S. strategic interest in promoting European energy security, the ongoing debate about reforms in the EU energy market, and the long-term goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in both Europe and the United States.
Climate & Energy Experts
Recent Analysis
Shale StormDecember 14, 2011
UN Climate Talks and Power Politics: It’s Not about the TemperatureMay 25, 2011
A Climate Conference ReaderDecember 01, 2010
Farming Should Protect Europe’s Environmental Resources, not Use Them UpJanuary 29, 2010
The new pecking orderDecember 27, 2009
Recent Blog Posts
Europe’s Emissions Trading Muddle a Setback to Global Environmental Efforts
The U.S. clips its own wings by outlawing the EU’s new airline emission standard
Desertec can be much more than a “Eurotunnel” for Europe's energy
The Price Isn’t Right: Saving Europe’s Flagship Climate Change Initiative
A Tale in Two Pictures: Transatlantic Leadership in the International Climate Negotiations
