Transportation is the highest-emitting sector in the United States, making up 28 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. By investing in mass transit and electric vehicles, The American Jobs Plan would address climate through infrastructure. 

SOURCE: "The American Jobs Plan Gets Serious about Infrastructure and Climate Change" by CSIS's Lachlan Carey, Stephen Naimoli, and Morgan Higman.

The Caribbean is an emerging hotspot for regional power competition between the United States and China. In July 2020 China offered a $1 billion loan to Latin America and the Caribbean to buy its Sinovac vaccine and has quickly become a primary source of inoculations amid the relative U.S. absence.

SOURCE: "Reimagining the U.S. Strategy in the Carribbean" by CSIS's Daniel Runde and Linnea Sandin. 

Abu Dhabi plans to raise oil production capacity from 4.2 million barrels per day (b/d) to 5 million b/d by 2030—bringing it into odds with its Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) quota.

SOURCE: "Abu Dhabi's Growth Plans Will Create Opec Challenges" by CSIS's Ben Cahill. 

Mining operations in southern Venezuela have not ceased despite the fact that the opposition-controlled National Assembly passed the Organic Mega Reserve Law in 2018, which legally repealed Maduro’s Orinoco Mining Arc decree. According to SOSOrinoco, there are at least 59 illegal mining clusters inside Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

SOURCE: "Venezuela's Ecological Death Spiral: Formulating a Global Response." by CSIS's Cristina Vollmer Burelli and Claudia Fernandez.