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Productive Competition: A Framework for U.S.-China Engagement on Climate Change
January 21, 2021 | Sarah Ladislaw The Biden administration’s approach to addressing climate change must reflect a new geopolitical environment based on productive competition.

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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?

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The Need for Climate Smart Foreign Policy
June 15, 2020 | Sarah Ladislaw

CSIS energy and climate expert Sarah Ladislaw identifies today’s three core climate challenges; what they mean for U.S. foreign policy and how the United States can rise to them.

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

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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.

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Energy and Emissions after Covid-19: A First Cut
April 9, 2020 | Sarah Ladislaw, Nikos Tsafos CSIS experts explore the complex interplay of forces through which Covid-19 will affect the energy industry and carbon emissions in the medium to long term.

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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.

Critical Questions
Is the Oil Market Crisis Over? Not at All.
April 3, 2020 | Sarah Ladislaw, Ben Cahill CSIS experts Sarah Ladislaw and Ben Cahill address critical questions about the current oil market crisis in light of the uncertainty surrounding a supposed agreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia and the future of the U.S. oil and gas sector.

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The End of OPEC or a New Beginning?
March 30, 2020 | Sarah Ladislaw

Oil markets face unprecedented headwinds that will reshape oil market geopolitics even beyond the current crisis. Will this bring about the end of OPEC or a new beginning?

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Oil Price War
March 9, 2020 | Sarah Ladislaw The economic impacts of the coronavirus outbreak and subsequent downward pressure on global oil demand has fractured the precarious OPEC+ Alliance and set off an oil price war.

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Hope for the Climate
January 23, 2020 | Sarah Ladislaw Climate change is not usually an uplifting topic, but there is a more optimistic way to think about the challenge. With the scale and pace of today’s changes, society may have all it needs from an economic, political, and technological standpoint to deal with this issue.

Critical Questions
UN Report Paints a Bleak Outlook for the World’s Oceans and Coastal Areas
September 27, 2019 | Whitley Saumweber, Sarah Ladislaw CSIS’s Whitley Saumweber and Sarah Ladislaw argue that the new UN special report puts the threat of climate change to the ocean and ourselves in stark relief and makes clear that a lack of action will have dire consequences.

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