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Oct 23, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Dana Fisher |Samantha Gross
[music; montage of voices]GROSS: Climate activism has gotten more, well, interesting in the past year or two We’ve seen some stunts like activists throwing soup at the Mona Lisa or gluing themselves to buildings or to the stands at sporting events. These actions get attention, but do they increase support for climate action or turn people off? How does the movement against climate change compare to social movements in the past? Are activists moving the needle on climate action?
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Samantha Gross
The energy sector is the largest contributor to U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, at the macro level, reducing and eliminating emissions from the energy sector is a key component of mitigating climate change to improve the lives of all. Continuing to provide affordable and reliable energy service is especially important to low-income consumers, since high energy prices are most harmful to those who can least afford to pay.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Ernest Moniz |Samantha Gross
MONIZ: We are going to need power that’s available when we want it, when we need it, where we need it. Nuclear power is one of the prime options for supplying that. [music]GROSS: Oldsters like me have seen a lot of change in nuclear power in our lifetimes. Nuclear power was once touted as bringing us electricity “cheap to meter,” a phrase coined by the US Atomic Energy Commission’s chairman in 1954. But real-world costs dashed that hope.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Samantha Gross
In season two of Climate Sense, host Samantha Gross focuses on how to transition to a clean, zero–carbon energy system—the technical, political and social challenges in getting from here to there.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Samantha Gross |Fred Dews
As part of the Brookings Election ’24 initiative, Samantha Gross, director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at Brookings, talks about the energy and climate policy issues in the U.S. presidential election as voters think about the different approaches either a Harris administration or a second Trump administration offers. [music]DEWS: You’re listening to The Current, part of the Brookings Podcast Network. I’m your host, Fred Dews.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Samantha Gross |Constanze Stelzenmüller
Editor's note: This report is the first in a series on “Europe’s energy transition: Balancing the trilemma” produced by the Brookings Institution in partnership with the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. Providing a stable energy supply is often described in terms of a “trilemma”—a balance between supply security, environmental sustainability, and affordability.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Ryan Hass |David Wessel |Samantha Gross |Timothy F. Geithner
David Dollar, the host of Dollar and Sense, passed away on October 6, 2023. In this final episode of his podcast, David’s friends and colleagues pay tribute to his work as a U.S. official and scholar, as a mentor and colleague, as a podcast host, and ultimately as a family man. Special thanks to Gastón Reboredo, audio/podcast engineer, who worked on the show from the beginning. [music]RYAN HASS: Hello. My name is Ryan Hass.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Samantha Gross
United States oil production is a lightning rod for the environmental community. A focus on reducing oil production to combat climate change seems obvious. Without production, oil can’t be consumed. Moreover, much production in the United States comes from oil companies whose past behavior makes them easy targets for attacks.
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Jul 30, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Samantha Gross |David Dollar
Samantha Gross, director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at Brookings, talks with David Dollar about whether we can attribute the growing number of extreme weather events and disasters to climate change. Gross says global temperature rise makes these events more likely, but also notes that international cooperation to reduce carbon is having a positive effect on average temperature rise.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Samantha Gross
Executive SummaryRussia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago turned global energy markets upside down. Although oil and gas prices have come down from their highest points and energy issues have faded somewhat from the news, the effects of the war in Ukraine on energy will continue and evolve in 2023. Western oil consumers are trying a new tactic in response to Russia’s aggression — weaponizing their collective energy demand by sanctioning Russian oil and oil products.
