World Bank scraps climate financing after facing pressure from Trump
The 45% target was set following the United Nations’ climate conference in 2023, pledging the funding to climate-related projects by 2025.
Kevin Brunelli is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy focusing on critical minerals and the battery supply chain.
Previously, he was a member of the Critical Minerals and Energy Technologies team in the Bureau of Energy Resources at the U.S. State Department where he served as the lead for critical minerals diplomacy in East Asia and Australia. He was also the Department lead for lithium, nickel, and minerals and energy technologies facing Chinese export restrictions.
He was previously a Research Associate at the Center on Global Energy Policy, focused on critical minerals, battery supply chains, and economic statecraft. Prior to working at Columbia, Kevin was a producer at CNN. He graduated from Columbia SIPA with a Master’s in Public Administration with a concentration in Energy and Environment and received a B.A from the Catholic University of America.
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