White House, private sector ‘closely looking’ at Venezuelan critical minerals
But given practical hurdles and huge political risk, experts say U.S. access to the deposits is likely a pipe dream.
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In the next week, with the Paris climate conference underway, millions of Americans will hear and read news stories about global warming. They’ll hear that allowing global average temperatures to increase by more than 2°C would be dangerous, that nations of the world have pledged to keep warming below 2°C and that, in the absence of policies, global average temperatures are likely to increase by a shocking 4°C by the end of the century. There’s only one problem: Americans think in degrees Fahrenheit.
On November 6, 2025, in the lead-up to the annual UN Conference of the Parties (COP30), the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA convened a roundtable on project-based carbon credit markets (PCCMs) in São Paulo, Brazil—a country that both hosted this year’s COP and is well-positioned to shape the next phase of global carbon markets by leveraging its experience in nature-based solutions.
Connecticut needs an honest debate, and fresh thinking, to shape a climate strategy fit for today, not 2022.