Climate Change and Climate Action

Climate change is a threat that requires looking beyond partisanship. By exploring the economic, geopolitical, and systemic opportunities and challenges resulting from the effects of anthropogenic climate change, and identifying the partnerships and strategies which are making a difference, the conversation on this threat can become more constructive and productive.

Recent analysis

Europe’s new normal: Turning the migrant challenge into an opportunity

MENASource
Feb 5, 2026

How Iran’s water bankruptcy seeped into the protest movement

By
Nik Kowsar

Many of Iran’s protest hubs overlap with areas where severe water shortages in recent years have made life increasingly difficult for people.

Climate Change & Climate Action
Energy & Environment

Europe’s new normal: Turning the migrant challenge into an opportunity

AfricaSource
Feb 3, 2026

Climate adaptation: The investment the Global South cannot afford to delay

By
Sara Lemniei

Adaptation offers the fastest and most cost-effective way forward; it reduces physical climate risk before it becomes a fiscal, health, and security crisis.

Africa
Climate Change & Climate Action

Europe’s new normal: Turning the migrant challenge into an opportunity

New Atlanticist
Nov 20, 2025

Dispatch from COP30: In the Brazilian jungle, the private sector takes center stage

By
Jorge Gastelumendi

Throughout COP30, there has been a recognition that the public and private sectors cannot act alone when it comes to climate finance.

Brazil
Civil Society

Programs and initiatives

The Climate Resilience Center creates and delivers transformative solutions that improve lives, protect livelihoods, and expand opportunity for communities on the front lines of the climate crisis. The Center is committed to reaching one billion people around the world with resilience solutions to climate change by 2030.

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The Global Energy Center develops and promotes pragmatic and nonpartisan policy solutions designed to advance global energy security, enhance economic opportunity, and accelerate pathways to net-zero emissions.

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Veterans Advanced Energy Project

The Veterans Advanced Energy Project is designed to drive US leadership in advanced energy by recruiting, equipping, and empowering military veterans who understand the importance of the evolving energy landscape to our future security and prosperity.

Events

Public Event
Fri, February 20, 2026 • 9:00 am ET

2026 US-Caribbean Maritime and Ports Forum

Americas
Artificial Intelligence
Caribbean
Climate Change & Climate Action

Online Event
Mon, January 12, 2026 • 10:00 am ET

2026 in the Americas: Stories that may drive the news

Americas
Climate Change & Climate Action
Democratic Transitions
Latin America

Content

New Atlanticist

Sep 7, 2018

Europe’s new normal: Turning the migrant challenge into an opportunity

By Pete Seat

With inhospitable temperatures across North Africa and Central Asia, constant war and conflict in Middle East hot spots, and the advance of authoritarian regimes, today’s refugees don’t represent a temporary conundrum, but rather a new normal of European life.

Climate Change & Climate Action Conflict

In the News

Jul 22, 2018

Ellinas in Cyprus Mail: Cyprus urgently needs solar desalination

By Charles Ellinas

Read the full article here.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

EnergySource

Jul 13, 2018

Not everything is cool with air conditioning

By Peter Freudenstein

When they first cross the Atlantic, Europeans are often perplexed by the omnipresent air conditioners in the United States. Yet when humidity and temperatures reach unbearable levels during the summer months, even hardened naysayers of air conditioners appreciate a cool workplace that allows working without sweating profusely. However, not everything is cool with air conditioning. […]

Climate Change & Climate Action

Event Recap

Jun 27, 2018

Iran’s Environmental Impasse

By Masoud Mostajabi

Iran’s environmental challenges are reaching a crisis point. Severe water and air pollution, deforestation, land degradation, desertification, climate change, and biodiversity loss are only a few of the increasing number of major environmental issues faced by Iran. These calamities have become a source of social and economic hardship, a threat to public health and a […]

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

Timely Commentary & Analysis

May 11, 2018

Is Latin America on target for COP24?

By Global Energy Center

In a new report, Atlantic Council Energy Advisory Group Chairman and Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Senior Fellow David Goldwyn and co-author Andrea Clabough examine the progress Latin American countries, including the Southern Cone countries, Central America, and the Caribbean, have made in working toward their climate goals, with a focus on modernization and improved sustainability […]

Americas Climate Change & Climate Action

Report

May 10, 2018

Latin America: On target for COP24?

By David L. Goldwyn and Andrea Clabough

As signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement gear up for the upcoming COP24 meetings in Katowice, Poland in December 2018, Latin America has emerged as a global leader in energy modernization and climate change management, although progress has been uneven, and serious challenges remain for many countries in Latin America.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

Timely Commentary & Analysis

Feb 21, 2018

The rush for battery resources

By Reed Blakemore and Jens Jessen

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is already underway, and its pace is expected to increase in the coming years. The number of EVs on the road worldwide is projected to grow from one million this year to 24.4 million by 2030. Such growth in the EV fleet will require a significant expansion of battery […]

Africa Americas

EnergySource

Feb 21, 2018

Groko or Noko: What Germany’s grand coalition means for energy and climate

By Ellen Scholl

Members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) have a big decision to make. SPD party members have until March 2 to vote on whether their party should participate in a coalition government with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel. The vote puts SPD party members in a difficult position—endorse a […]

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy Markets & Governance

EnergySource

Feb 15, 2018

Intelligence community continues to see threat from climate change

By Ellen Scholl and David Livingston

The 2018 Worldwide Threat Assessment, released on February 13, includes climate change among the identified threats to global stability. While many have pointed to the gap between this assessment and the rhetoric of US President Donald J. Trump—and the noticeable absence of climate change from his administration’s 2017 National Security Strategy—the worldwide threat assessment underscores […]

Climate Change & Climate Action Security & Defense

Timely Commentary & Analysis

Feb 15, 2018

Intelligence community continues to see threat from climate change

By Ellen Scholl and David Livingston

While continued identification of climate change as part of the threat landscape is certainly important, incorporating climate concerns into foreign, defense, development, and national security policy in a comprehensive way is still a work in progress.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment
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Experts

Fellow

Lama El Hatow

Nonresident Fellow

empowerME Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Africa Climate Change & Climate Action

Executive Leadership Intensive participant

Katerina Elias-Trostmann

Director, Climate & Nature for Latin America, Salesforce

Millennium Leadership Program

Brazil Climate Change & Climate Action

Staff

Peter Engelke

Senior Fellow, GeoStrategy Initiative

GeoStrategy Initiative Global Energy Center

Technology & Innovation
Kathleen Euler

Staff

Kathleen Euler

Deputy Director, Digital Communications

Climate Resilience Center

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

Millennium fellow

Shaun Fernando

Partner, Guidehouse

Millennium Leadership Program

Climate Change & Climate Action Economy & Business

Staff

Jorge Gastelumendi

Senior Director

Climate Resilience Center

Resilience Climate Change & Climate Action
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Events

Flagship Event Tue, June 9, 2026 • 9:00 am ET

2026 Global Energy Forum

The tenth Global Energy Forum will chart the course for continued innovation, collaboration, and leadership in the global energy transition. 
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