Climate Diplomacy

Climate change is an inherently cross-boundary issue, and emissions reductions at home must be matched by ambitious climate policy abroad. The Center for American Progress regularly convenes bilateral Track II climate dialogues to support and accelerate clean energy transitions through joint policy endeavors, while also engaging in international policy mechanisms such as the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change on the issues of mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, and nature-based solutions. Underpinning all of CAP’s climate diplomacy is a science-based approach to policymaking and keeping the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming goal of the Paris Agreement within reach.

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A multilateral approach to climate and trade policy could revolutionize efforts to decarbonize heavy industries and counter non market overcapacity In the News

A multilateral approach to climate and trade policy could revolutionize efforts to decarbonize heavy industries and counter non market overcapacity

In an op-ed published by Renewal, Ryan Mulholland and Mike Williams argue in favor of cooperative action on challenges like climate change.

Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy

Ryan Mulholland, Mike Williams

LNG Projects Are a Bad Deal for Germans and Americans Report
Workers watch the sun set behind an LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven.

LNG Projects Are a Bad Deal for Germans and Americans

Subsidizing fossil gas, especially long-term contracts for liquefied natural gas (LNG), undermines Germany’s energy independence, national security, public health, and climate goals, while also raising energy prices and pollution for Americans. On the other hand, accelerating the deployment of affordable and cleaner technologies across sectors could lower costs and pollution.

The Trump Administration’s Retreat From Global Climate Leadership Article
U.S. President Donald Trump holds an executive order announcing the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement .

The Trump Administration’s Retreat From Global Climate Leadership

President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement marks a deliberate weakening of the multilateral system, jeopardizing global efforts to combat the climate crisis and risking America’s economic and environmental future.

Kalina Gibson

Official COP29 Side Event: Climate, Trade, and Industrial Policy: How Policies in Global North and Global South Economies Are Driving Decarbonization Past Event

Official COP29 Side Event: Climate, Trade, and Industrial Policy: How Policies in Global North and Global South Economies Are Driving Decarbonization

The Center for American Progress, the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, Resources for the Future, and Australian National University are excited to host this official UNFCCC COP29 side event in Baku.

Blue Zone, Side event room 4, COP29, Baku, Azerbaijan

2024 Elections and the Future of Global Climate Ambition Report
Cranes surround the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset, England.

2024 Elections and the Future of Global Climate Ambition

As the 2024 elections usher in new leaders and reshuffle political power, the trajectory of climate ambition is at a crossroads, with the potential to accelerate toward meaningful progress or falter in the face of new obstacles.

Kalina Gibson

Project 2025 Would Jeopardize Global Climate Action Article
U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry arrives on stage to deliver a speech.

Project 2025 Would Jeopardize Global Climate Action

During a critical decade for climate action, Project 2025’s architects call for an end to American climate leadership on the international stage, which would harm Americans and prevent the global community from achieving climate goals necessary to maintain a livable planet.

How Project 2025 Threatens the Inflation Reduction Act’s Thriving Clean Energy Economy Report
Photo shows two workers wearing protective gear installing a couple solar panels on a sunny rooftop

How Project 2025 Threatens the Inflation Reduction Act’s Thriving Clean Energy Economy

As the two-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act is commemorated, the Biden-Harris administration's historic climate action offers much to celebrate, having secured unprecedented clean energy advancements and substantial gains against climate change—but Project 2025 has the potential to reverse this pivotal progress and derail the nation's clean energy transition.

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We pursue climate action that meets the crisis’s urgency, creates good-quality jobs, benefits disadvantaged communities, and restores U.S. credibility on the global stage.

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