We bring diverse partners together to chart net-zero pathways and catalyze action.

Governments all over the world need to know what good net zero industrial policy looks like. The Lab tracks experiments in modern industrial policy to distill key lessons for policy makers. We study how governments and industry can create effective collaborations based on the best information.

Much of the industrial policy conversation is about domestic industrial policy. But increasingly, countries are realizing that their industrial policies are interdependent. The Lab investigates two forms of global green industrial policy:

Foreign industrial policy is when countries take action abroad to support their domestic goals. Joint industrial policy is when countries cooperate with one another to advance shared goals.

Our work analyses how and why countries engage in these form of action.

The clean energy transition requires an unprecedented build-out of the mining industry.

How can all countries and peoples benefit from the need to build out these supply chains?

The Lab studies what minerals are needed, models minerals demand, and analyses the politics and policy of transition metals.

What domestic and global policies and governance models are needed to create high road supply chains?

How can global value chains for clean energy be distributed so that all countries benefit? What do collaborative supply chains that share value-added look like? What are the implications for the investment strategies of governments and international financial institutions?

This project maps prospective and proposed global value chains to quantify the value-added of each step and analyze the potential benefits to developing and emerging economies of various financial instruments. We model supply chains and then adjust the location and financial mechanisms to quantify the potential benefits to all parties.

Supply chains for storage and renewables are growing quickly, which creates a need for understanding their vulnerabilities and uncertainties, including the availability of current and prospective sources of raw materials, the logistics of transporting these materials and intermediate components, and the production capabilities of manufacturers.

This project bridges the gap between the (i) capacity expansion models “optimizing” expansion decisions in power grids and (ii) emerging supply chains models used for sourcing raw materials, manufacturing intermediate components and delivering the grid storage and renewable technologies.