Transition 2021: How Will Biden Combat Climate Change?

Alice C. Hill, CFR’s David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment, and Todd Stern, nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution concentrating on climate change, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the incoming Biden administration’s likely approach to climate change policy.

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Host
  • James M. Lindsay
    Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Episode Guests
  • Alice C. Hill
    David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment
  • Todd Stern
    Nonresident Senior Fellow; Brookings Institution

Show Notes

In this special Transition 2021 series of The President’s Inbox, James M. Lindsay sits down each week with experts to discuss the challenges facing the incoming Biden administration. This week, Alice C. Hill, CFR’s David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment, and Todd Stern, nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution concentrating on climate change, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the incoming Biden administration’s likely approach to climate change policy.

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