The start of Brown's new fiscal year on July 1, 2023, brought a number of leadership changes to the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and its centers.

Entering its fourth year, the Climate Solutions Lab has an ambitious plan to expand on its mission to create and distribute solution-oriented climate knowledge at Brown and across the world.

Senior Fellow Alice Plane focuses on the various stakes that climate change poses to the planet’s ecosystems, including human societies, with a specific perspective on equity. The MPA seminar she led this Fall, Climate Diplomacy and International Negotiations in Practice, culminated in final papers that centered on current and future “success” of climate diplomacy. 

The Watson Institute’s Climate Solutions Lab is launching a new interactive website called the Climate Opportunity Map.

On Wednesday, February 9, Zanagee Artis and Jeff Colgan attended a 3rd-grade classroom at the Croft School in Providence, Rhode Island, to discuss Zanagee's book, A Kids Book About Climate Change, and the effects of climate change on their community. 

A new Brown University report critically examines the National Climate Assessment (NCA).

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs talked with Jeff Colgan about the Climate Syllabus Bank and why its syllabi are meaningful for students today and in the future.

Students enrolled in Professor Jeff Colgan’s course “Geopolitics of Oil and Energy” debated and wrestled with ideas to tackle climate change’s myriad challenges. Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs Jeff Colgan, who is director of the Climate Solutions Lab and director of Security Studies, introduced the seminar during the 2019-2020 academic year.

The Brown University Climate Solutions Lab has just released a report assessing the Biden administration’s international climate diplomacy so far. Written by the CSL’s director, Jeff Colgan and co-authors Thomas N. Hale and Scott M. Moore, “Biden @ 100 DAYS: A Climate Foreign-Policy Scorecard” examines the current administration's actions and commitment to reorienting U.S. foreign policy to meet the climate challenge.

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs' Climate Solutions Lab is compiling a syllabus bank of courses that address climate change.

A comprehensive report, "Presidential Climate Action on Day One: A Foreign Policy Guide for the Next U.S. President," issues a sweeping set of recommended actions, both domestic and international, to address climate change, this century’s defining global challenge.

The Climate Solutions Initiative will focus on overcoming barriers to confronting climate change through scholarship, learning and research-informed infrastructure changes on campus, in Providence and beyond.

When Brown’s campus closed on March 12 due to increasing concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, students dispersed around the globe. Once classes resumed virtually, many students were tasked with continuing projects they had begun prior to this great change, grappling with familiar themes in unfamiliar formats. 

Jeff Colgan, a political scientist at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, weighs in on the current coronavirus-related tumble in oil prices, its impact on geopolitical power and climate change and the U.S. government’s role in the now struggling industry.