Grid storage in the 1830s: Lessons for innovation in today’s energy market
By Timmons RobertsIn 1830s America, it seemed like Zachariah Allen was everywhere in Rhode Island. He was setting up the first private library, establishing the first mutual insurance company for...
View ArticleStill uncertain, but still distracting: The US under Trump at the UN climate...
By Timmons RobertsA year ago, the hallways at the United Nations climate change negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco, were hushed as thousands of delegates from around the world processed the news of...
View ArticleWe are [not] still in: Can the world ever trust US again on climate?
By Timmons Roberts
View ArticleOne year since Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement
By Timmons RobertsUnder brilliant sunshine and blue skies one year ago today, President Donald Trump stood at a podium in the Rose Garden to announce the United States would be withdrawing from the...
View ArticleTrump fuel-economy standards roll back environmental reforms
By Timmons RobertsTimmons Roberts discusses the implications of President Trump’s new fuel-economy standards, which roll back Obama-era reforms. Roberts explains that backing out of our carbon...
View ArticleAround the halls: Climate experts explain what to watch at this week’s Global...
By Todd Stern, David G. Victor, Samantha Gross, Jeffrey Ball, Ye QI, Nathan Hultman, Timmons RobertsTodd Stern (@tsterndc), Senior Fellow in the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate: In our...
View ArticleClimate reality requires starting at home: Weaning from fossil fuels
By Timmons RobertsFossil fuels have to go. It didn’t take the latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to tell us that: we’ve known it for three decades. But the report makes...
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Around the halls: Brookings experts on what to watch at the COP 24 climate...
By Todd Stern, David G. Victor, Samantha Gross, Sahil Ali, Rahul Tongia, Nathan Hultman, Timmons Roberts, Jeffrey Ball, Colette D. Honorable, Amar Bhattacharya The 24th Session of the Conference of the...
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It’s déjà vu all over again: Climate finance at COP24
By Romain Weikmans, Timmons RobertsIt’s easy to feel a sense of déjà vu in the world of U.N. climate negotiations. After all, it’s the 24th Conference of the Parties this year, and many of the same old...
View Article2020 trends to watch: Policy issues to watch in 2020
2019 was marked by massive protest movements in a number of different countries, impeachment, continued Brexit talks and upheaval in global trade, and much more. Already, 2020 is shaping up to be no...
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