Climate & Environmental Policy

Climate policy is going global. CBAM, carbon markets, and emissions mandates now reach far past the countries that set them. Whose voices shape those rules? We are supporting research on inclusive climate policymaking: global decisions need global perspectives.

Ice cores hum with ancient air. Deep-sea vents glow in a dark no human eye evolved for. Climate change is rewriting these places, and science shows us the numbers how. But we want art that helps us experience the change too. Pitch us!

In 2024, Elon Musk’s xAI built the world’s largest AI data center in South Memphis. What began with grand promises of jobs and development for South Memphis residents quickly followed a pattern all too familiar: gas turbines running without permits, pollution pouring into an already overburdened neighborhood, and a government that looked the other way.

Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of growing climate denialism, the relation between big tech and climate obstruction, the climate counter-disinformation community or similar topics. Applications due by Tuesday, September 9.

The Trump Administration’s new budget law is a back door to implementing major portions of the MAGA agenda. It could become one of the most destructive, anti-climate, anti-poor, and anti-working class pieces of legislation in US history and risks the country’s long-term economic stability.

We are excited to announce our selection of Transatlantic Media Fellows for 2025!

Germany’s incoming government of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats have concluded a governing ‘contract’ and will take office in May. The new chancellor, Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz, underscored in the campaign that climate protection would not be a top priority.

The concept of land liberation through agroecology includes, in turn, the freedom of forests, in opposition to forms of privatization, commodification, and financialization of nature that reduce forests to mere credits.