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U.S. Climate Leadership at the G20: A Strategy for Investment, Debt Relief, and Industrial Policy
March 30, 2021 | Sarah Ladislaw The Biden administration wants to catalyze more ambitious action on climate change. To do so, it should take the lead on three G20 initiatives to mobilize green investment, enable green debt relief, and promote green industrial policy.

Commentary
From Disclosure to Regulation: Potential Impacts of Climate-related Regulation of Banks
September 8, 2020 | Kyle Danish, Sarah Ladislaw Can emerging climate-related bank regulation be a potent climate policy?

Commentary
Forecasting Covid-19’s Course
May 20, 2020 | Sarah Ladislaw Government and business leaders often continue to plan for a V-shaped Covid-19 recovery; CSIS scholars anticipate a much longer road ahead.

Commentary
The United States Needs an Energy Industrial Strategy, and Everybody Knows It
May 5, 2020 | Sarah Ladislaw CSIS's energy expert Sarah Ladislaw writes how bipartisan concerns over U.S. competitiveness offer a rare chance for a much-needed energy industrial strategy.

Commentary
The G20 Agreement the World Needs Now
April 8, 2020 | Sarah Ladislaw

CSIS energy expert Sarah Ladislaw explains the three critical outcomes needed from the upcoming G20 energy ministers' meeting.

Blog Post
Energy and the U.S.-China Phase One Trade Deal—Don’t Believe the Hype... At Least Not All of It
January 17, 2020 | Sarah Ladislaw
From Energy Headlines Versus Trendlines

This week, the United States and China signed a so-called “phase one” trade deal to stop the escalation of tariffs that has precipitated since the start of the trade war in 2017.

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Home and Abroad: Building U.S. Global Economic Leadership on Strong Domestic Foundations
July 11, 2019 | John J. Hamre, Matthew P. Goodman, William Alan Reinsch, Sarah Ladislaw, James Andrew Lewis, Daniel F. Runde, Romina Bandura, Stephanie Segal In a new essay collection, CSIS experts on economics, trade, energy, technology, and development share their thoughts on how the United States can reaffirm its leadership through smart policies both at home and abroad.

Congressional Testimony
Geopolitics of U.S. Oil and Gas Competitiveness
May 22, 2018 | Sarah Ladislaw

Sarah Ladislaw, director and senior fellow of the Energy and National Security Program, testified before House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade on "Geopolitics of U.S. Oil and Gas Competitiveness."

Commentary
Note to OPEC: Be Careful What You Wish For...
April 23, 2018 | Frank A. Verrastro, Sarah Ladislaw, Guy Caruso, Larry Goldstein, Albert Helmig For the past few years, OPEC has been singularly focused on eliminating the enormous supply overhang, but with the golden ring now in sight, a new adversary potentially sits just over the horizon.

Commentary
Venezuela: Too Big to Fail or Too Broken to Fix?
January 3, 2018 | Frank A. Verrastro, Adam Sieminski, Sarah Ladislaw, Albert Helmig

A persistently cash-strapped Venezuela has no good medium- or long-term options and President Maduro faces growing problems with empty pockets and no obvious white knight in sight.

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Delivering the Goods
February 26, 2015 | Frank A. Verrastro, Sarah Ladislaw, Kevin Book, Lisa Hyland

New development of abundant tight oil and unconventional natural gas resources creates an historic opportunity to enhance economic growth throughout North America and improve the region’s competitiveness in global markets.

Critical Questions
Iraq and Global Oil Markets
June 18, 2014 | Frank A. Verrastro, Sarah Ladislaw

Last week’s attack on and seizure of Mosul (Iraq’s second largest city) by armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an extreme jihadist group, represents a major expansion of the group’s previously held control of areas near the...


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